Waves Vocal Rider (Native) Reviews

4.4/5.0 based on 7 customer reviews

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Randy Akins

This is the coolest plug-in out there! Gone are the endless repetitions of riding the fader on a tricky vocal passage - this does it all for you. It can be automated as well!

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Terjaunia Sain
from Atlanta, GA
November 13, 2011 Music Background:
DJ/Producer

Off The Chain

Man, the vocal rider makes mixing vcls super easy. Waves is the best in plug ins hands down.... Insain Boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

MKI The King
from Memphis, TN
October 14, 2011 Music Background:
Pro recorder

Tha Buizness!!!!

I love this plug in!!! It really corrects the issues related to inconsistency within the track without coloration. I personally recommend this for anyone doing vocal mixing because you will be surprise how much automation is needed.

William "Willy Fats" Mcknight
from Nashville, TN
December 19, 2010 Music Background:
Producer, Engineer

The on slaught continues

And Waves fires another shot at big studio production. Logic 9 check, PTL 9 Check, Waves signature collections check, SSL collection Check is there any mix I can't make sound good not likely. But throw in this plug and it becomes all to easy. where is the work the time spent learning the craft, well its gone waves is single handedly killing it. There is alot of immitators to the thtown but for years waves has stood at the top and with plugs like this they will continue to stand at the top.

dbtucson
from Tucson, Arizona
November 22, 2011 Music Background:
composer, recording engineer, documentary maker

Waves Vocal Rider an essential

This plug-in does its job superbly, live or on tracks you've recorded.

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May 24, 2011

Time saver

great product that saves you the time of riding the fader manually. Takes care of dynamics without adding anything to the sound.

Matt F
from San Diego
November 8, 2011 Music Background:
Recording Engineer

Demo it First!!!!

Make sure your DAW has sidechain inputs for plug ins! Pro Tools does however DAW's like Samplitude and others do not. Make sure you have sidechaining or this plug in is useless. Works great though and recommend it for the time saving!

Ted K
from Tucson, AZ
July 9, 2011 Music Background:
Home Studio Recording Engineer, Musician

Waves Vocal Rider

I bought Vocal Rider for my Windows 7 64 bit PC and have mixed feelings about the performance of the product. First the good. It does as advertised regarding evening out the vocal track without needing to introduce artifactts that typically come with compressing a signal. Big time saver. Two big dissapointments though. The sidechaining that was advertised is disabled if you use the plugin with Sonar. That may be a gripe against Sonar though, something about not embracing VST3 protocol. Secondly, since introducing Vocal RIder to my DAW environment I'm getting intermittent crashes of my DAW software. (I'm Running multiple Waves bundles in Ver. 7 VR in ver. 8 together which is supposed to work)