Sorry..another side chain question!

I fully understand what a side chain is and how to
use it.
My question is:
My bass track is on lets say inst 12 and my kick is
from ultrabeat routed to aux1
When I select the side chain on the compressor on the
bass track it only allows for track, input or bus to
feed it...... No AUX!
So, do I need to send the aux to a bus to accomplish
what I want?
Thanks in advance!
Craig
Yes you do need to route the sound you want to side chain through a bus (AUXs arent supported as far as I know). You can do that by setting the AUX output to a bus or using a send to send it to a bus. (And taking into account the first reply) subsequently you can choose to set the bus being used for the side chain signal to have no output.
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