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Originally Posted by Taybot  Also, so all a gate is is that kick drum pattern? Which could actually be anything, a hi hat or snare pattern too, it doesn't matter cuz you have no output to it, right? But it seems from that explanation, that it's a gate even before you sidechain it, so technically I could call any kick drum pattern a gate, right?
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No. The patterns trigger the gate. The gate is what shuts off the sound. The gate is triggered by the pattern of the sound being sidechained into it. In this case it is the kick drum.