Several compressors (VSTs) support true sidechaining. Live states to support them (search for "sidechain" in the manual), but has a bug which crashes it as soon as a key input is enabled. Ableton has acknowledged the bug and is working on fixing it. See http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtop...
For what it's worth, latest Live (4.1) and latest Crunchessor demo (1.5beta) as the only plugin in the VST path still cause crashes if the sidechain input on the Crunchessor is enabled. I can't believe that noone else is missing this feature. Is there another good sounding and sidechain capable comp...
Has anyone managed to get Crunchessor's sidechain input working crashlessly in Live? I got as far as hearing it work, but any attempt to either exit Live or loading a set containing the plugin results in the evil "A serious program error has occurred"-messages. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start...