Yes to almost all of those questions if you use the latest release
available here:
https://github.com/cabbageaudio/cabbage/releases
It's still alpha, but the GUI designer is working pretty well I think.
I have never done any side-chaining, but you can easily route audio
into a plugin effect, perhaps you can reserve one input for an
external signal, and another input for the main signal?

On 4 January 2014 11:28, Machina  wrote:
> hi guys.
>
> getting to know the awesome Cabbage. two words: WOW!, WOW! (points for
> originality?)
>
> quick questions:
> is there a graphic designer for the tools of cabbage? something like
> csoundQt widget designer?
>
> channel routing. lets say i want to build my own sidechain compression. how
> should i code it so i can route an external signal (in cubase or ableton) to
> my new effect?
> same goes for midi signal. (imagine a sidechain compression triggered by
> midi)
>
> and last question.
> can i implement a "midi modifier" in cabbage?
>
> so many possiblites..
>
> thanks

Of course the limitation with the above approach to sidechaining is
that you are restricting to mono inputs.

On 4 January 2014 11:37, Rory Walsh  wrote:
> Yes to almost all of those questions if you use the latest release
> available here:
> https://github.com/cabbageaudio/cabbage/releases
> It's still alpha, but the GUI designer is working pretty well I think.
> I have never done any side-chaining, but you can easily route audio
> into a plugin effect, perhaps you can reserve one input for an
> external signal, and another input for the main signal?
>
> On 4 January 2014 11:28, Machina  wrote:
>> hi guys.
>>
>> getting to know the awesome Cabbage. two words: WOW!, WOW! (points for
>> originality?)
>>
>> quick questions:
>> is there a graphic designer for the tools of cabbage? something like
>> csoundQt widget designer?
>>
>> channel routing. lets say i want to build my own sidechain compression. how
>> should i code it so i can route an external signal (in cubase or ableton) to
>> my new effect?
>> same goes for midi signal. (imagine a sidechain compression triggered by
>> midi)
>>
>> and last question.
>> can i implement a "midi modifier" in cabbage?
>>
>> so many possiblites..
>>
>> thanks

I haven't done much with MIDI routing, but I can post a simple MIDI
effect to the Recipes section of the Cabbage forum at
www.thecabbagefoundation.org, feel free to register there and ask any
Cabbage only questions. In the future it will be possible to do proper
side-chaining. For now I'm waiting till the VST3 sdk matures a bit :)

On 4 January 2014 17:03, zohar argaman  wrote:
> hey! thanks a lot. it really is amazing
>
> you mean i can split one stereo input to a carrier and modulator?
> what if i want to build something with multiple side chain inputs?
> and what about midi routing for effects?
>
> i haven't seen any manual on the page you linked me. is there a cabbage
> manual somewhere?
>
> On Saturday, January 4, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Rory Walsh wrote:
>
> ith the above approach to sidechaining is
> that you are restricting to
>
>