Sidechain compression?

No. But you can use an LFO (including smooth step LFO) to create dynamic "pumping" in any form.

That's a shame Artemiy, but thank you for the suggestion. I'll try the LFO and see if I can get the effect I'm after, otherwise I'll just have to sidechain in logic and ableton.

in combination with cubase the sidechain compression works perfectly for me!

just make the fantom g be the main sound device(of your connected PC), connect the fantom via USB to cubase and record the desired tracks as audiotracks into cubase. in cubase you can use a sidechain compresson plug in! it works perfectly!

btw: sidechian compression is not an effect which you can simply switch off or on, it's a method or procedure to compress certain parts within a single track. it is not unusual, the fantom g doesn't support sidechaining in my eyes!

but in combination with software it works!

please explain side chain compression.

I thought it is using one signal to set the compression effect on another signal. This is something I never found useful on anything except vocals and even less often on drums. This is a "ducking" effect used to bring clarity to the mix, generally used with gates and limiting and not so often with compression.

Pumping from a compressor is usually not desirable. Although it can bring a nice sexy sound to a vocal, sometimes called breathing.

How and /or why would you want these effects on keyboards?

This effect is used on almost all dance tunes at the moment, usually on the bass and pad sounds to give them more of a rhythmic pumping effect in time with the kick drum, but is also useful on closed an high hats to give them more life.

It is used on keyboards and is something I can do on my Korg M3 when playing live, but the Fantom sounds will have to just get this effect when I'm recording.

Thanks daveocean,

I did a little research and found what you described. Sounds interesting, the same effect I was already familar with, but with a whole new application for me. This would bring more life or movement to a repeated pattern. I have a few external rack compressors I would like to try this with. Thanks again for getting me out of the box of standard applications.