such a nice brass hit being side-chained. made me look at your set up but it looks like you didn't use any compressor, so I guess you must've automated them manually huh (or maybe you put an envelope on that sample in the machinist
one of your guesses was correct. in my tracks i have 1 mixer's worth of instruments/sounds that get sidechained via automation of the knob on a minimixer (it's much more responsive than automating knobs on the centroid or other mixers), and another mixer's worth of drums and other things that dont get sidechained. saves me from splitting the signal of my kick drum 1000000 times.
School is ending tomorrow. This is how I procrastinated studying for finals. What I mean to say is that I most likely will be making more soon, since I'll have much more time.