Waves Vocal Rider

Waves Vocal Rider®

Automatically maintains consistent vocal and dialogue levels while preserving the natural character of the performance. Vocal Rider continuously adjusts gain in real time, reducing the need for manual level automation or heavy compression.

Key Features

• Automatic vocal and dialogue level control

• Up to ±12 dB of gain adjustment

• Real-time operation with zero latency

• Target-level control for precise vocal placement

• Music-sensitive sidechain adjusts vocal level in relation to the mix

• Can prevent instrument bleed from affecting level detection

• Writes gain changes to a DAW automation track for further editing

• Preserves natural vocal dynamics without compression-based coloration

• Suitable for music production, post-production, broadcast, podcasts, and live sound

• No pre-scan required

System Requirements

• macOS: Sonoma 14, Sequoia 15, Tahoe 26, Golden Gate 27

• Windows: Windows 10 64-bit or Windows 11

• CPU: Intel or Apple Silicon Mac; x64-compatible Intel or AMD processor on Windows

• RAM: 16 GB

• Storage: 30 GB available system-drive space

• Recommended display: 1920 × 1080