linking either dynamics or plugins across channels

[protourman]

Just a quick question that I haven't been able to address properly with any digital console yet, but maybe its been solved with the Venue: if I want to link (or slave) a noise gate across 2 channels like you would in a situation with 2 kick mics, how do you acheive this without making the channels stereo? Does the Key function do this? How do I set it up if so? If it can be done, can it be done with plug ins as well?

Thanks for any suggestions - its driving me nuts and have really become used to having the inside kick mic trigger both gates.