Decay wheel (DEC) – Turn to right for faster decay of the peak.

You can think for this parameter as peak’s 'tension'.

Tension (TNS) – Drag up and down to alter the shape of the curve used to map the volume peaks to peak controller values.

Negative values result in the opposite effect. When using positive values for this setting, higher volume means higher value for the peak controller. The value you can set ranges from -200% (maximum to left) to 200% (maximum to right).

Volume wheel (VOL) – This wheel sets how the volume peaks affect the peak controller.

Base wheel (BASE) – Sets the base value (offset) of the peak controller.

With the former you can control how the input signal maps to the automation signal. With the Fruity Peak Controller you can control the automation signal via the controls in the Peak section and the LFO section. Next, I route my channel with the Kick to Insert channel 1 in the Mixer and add the Fruity Peak Controller to the first FX slot. This affects my kick – it is less punchy than I want it to be.

When I play this, the bass and the kick clash. To illustrate the sidechaining effect using the Fruity Peak Controller I use the following simple setup:Īs you can see, I have added a kick drum and created a bassline. This automation signal can be used to automate virtually any other control, but a very common application is the sidechaining compression effect. The Fruity Peak controller generates an automation signal based on an input sound. In this tutorial I will discuss the options you have in FL Studio. As such sidechaining is not new, but the exaggerated effect has become quite popular in Dance music – the characteristic pumping sound is achieved with this technique. A very common application is to sidechain a compressor or gate in order to avoid that multiple sounds in the same frequency range clash, for instance the kick drum and bassline. Sidechaining is the technique where one sound is used to affect another. FL Studio 9 tutorial explaining sidechaining.

Sidechain with fruity peak controller