I am not a classically trained musician therefore I need scale reference when I am writing my melodies. This is just a ghost kick that does the sidechaining process in the later stage of music writing. Just like what are shown in the picture above, I usually have 3 things to help me with sketching down my ideas. It may vary in certain DAWs but you’ll get the concept. I will present all examples in FL Studio. It’s extremely easy to do and saves you ton of time in the future. Let me show you how I set up mine just so you get the hang of it. Every time you open your DAW or Digital Audio Workstation, everything is labelled and set up properly just to increase your productivity and workflow in your music creation process. The solution is to set up something which I name it as the “start-up” template. Do you get annoyed that you have to set up everything before sketching down your ideas? I have had that problem too.