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Sidechain compression listens to a second track to decide when to bring the input track volume down. The most common use is to use the kick drum track as the second trigger track. This means when the kick hits, your sidechained track momentarily comes down in volume. This means the kick has fewer sounds to compete with, which makes it sound clearer in the mix.
How Kaytranada Produced Glowed Up
Reverb Machine
Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in most of the same ways they're not supposed to trust external developers.
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant · GitHub
Gist
A lot of developer tools also assume a developer will switch to an entirely new toolchain to get a relatively small set of benefits. For most software teams, this is a nonstarter.
Instead, we need to focus on more interoperability with existing dev tools, as well as on more incremental improvements (yes) that aren’t a so-called paradigm shift but that actually work with what exists.
The Case for 'Developer Experience' - Future
future.a16z.com
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