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Software & Plug-ins - Waves Vocal Rider plug-in makes vocal processing easier than ever before. The name says it all! Vocal Rider is designed to simply match your vocal tracks to the rest of the mix, maintaining the relative volume throughout the song. All you do is instantiate it on your vocal track, bus a summed instrumental mix to the side-chain, and hit play. Then kick back and watch as Vocal Rider's fader takes over, keeping the relative volume of the vocals consistent with the volume of the rest of the mix. When you mix with Vocal Rider, perfection is never far away.Waves Vocal Rider Automatic Level-Riding Plug-in at a Glance:Intelligent adjustment that preserves the dynamics of your musicSave time achieving the automation you would otherwise have to program manuallyWrites automatic volume adjustments as tack automation for future fine tuningIntelligent adjustment that preserves the dynamics of you musicEvery day, even the best engineers struggle to find the perfect balance between enough and too much compression. You need to use some compression, but how much? The textbook way to address this is to use just enough compression to smooth out the tone, but not so much that you crush the life out of your music. Then you take the mildly compressed audio and use automation to preserve the dynamic range. Waves knows that this takes a great deal of diligence, and sometimes even professional engineers end up cutting corners and smothering the dynamic range of their vocals. That's where Vocal Rider comes in. Unlike conventional compression, Vocal Rider doesn't reduce the dynamic range of your tracks or color them at all. This is extremely useful when you consider the further uses of Vocal Rider as a tool for leveling out ungainly instrument tracks — like bass — that become completely incoherent if compressed too much.Save time achieving the automation you would otherwise have to program manuallyDon't throw out your compressors just yet! Some compression is