Ableton Live Insider Tips: Sidechaining with Zero Milliseconds Attack & No Clicks

Normally, an attack time of 0 ms would create a click, which is why the attack time of compressors starts only at 0.1 ms. With this workaround, you can achieve 0 ms and thus very tight sidechain compression. This Ableton Live Insider Tip was sent to me by Mads Christensen aka MessyMass.

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Madeleine Bloom is an Ableton Certified Trainer, musician, producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer from Berlin. She studied Electroacoustic Music at the Franz Liszt Conservatory. For a few years she worked as a technical support for Ableton gaining in-depth knowledge of Ableton Live that even most CTs don't ever get. In 2012 she started Sonic Bloom and has since helped countless people on all continents with their music productions and live performances.