Thanks for checking this out—Glad you liked it! The pads were made louder than other simultaneous instruments so that the chords would be easier to detect. I used a compressor in the master audio bus, and I’m not sure if that’s considered side-chaining or not. As for the bass, it doesn’t use chords at all and isn’t supposed to follow or correlate to the chord progression, if that’s what you mean. The chord stuff is something that never really stuck with me in music theory, and I never really try to follow traditional patterns or systems when using chords.