🚨 Free product included with qualifying orders 🚨🚨 Free product included with qualifying orders 🚨🚨 Free product included with qualifying orders 🚨🚨 Free product included with qualifying orders 🚨🚨 Free product included with qualifying orders 🚨🚨 Free product included with qualifying orders 🚨🚨 Free product included with qualifying orders 🚨🚨 Free product included with qualifying orders 🚨🚨 Free product included with qualifying orders 🚨🚨 Free product included with qualifying orders 🚨
Theme

Forthcoming Events

No forthcoming events scheduled.


Expired Events

Summer Sale Ended: 14 Jul 2026
May 2026 Deals Ended: 31 May 2026

Live Event

Active

Heatwave Sale 2026

Feel The Heat! From industry-leading plugins and Kontakt instruments to essential sample packs and cinematic sound design libraries.

Ends In
17d 20h 04m 47s
VIEW ALL DEALS

0

0

Change country:

We use cookies

We and selected 3rd parties use cookies or similar technologies as specified in our Cookie Policy

You can consent to the use of such technologies by using the "Accept" button

Manage cookies

Essential
Essential cookies required for business process and to make the website usable by enabling basic functions. (always active)
Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to serve personalised ads and analyse performance.

Plugin

Plugin Effects

Waves

Vocal Rider

Get consistent vocal levels—automatically and fast.
 

Waves - Vocal Rider Plugins & FX Software GUI Artwork
Waves - Vocal Rider Screenshot 2
Waves - Vocal Rider Screenshot 3
Waves - Vocal Rider Screenshot 4
Waves - Vocal Rider Screenshot 5
Waves - Vocal Rider Screenshot 6

$39.99

Earn 89

Digital Download

0

Instant Access Direct download
100% Genuine Official license
Flexible Payments PayPal, Card or Wallet
Support Here to help
Guaranteed Safe & Secure Checkout
Visa Mastercard American Express Apple Pay Google Pay Klarna

Product Overview

Perfect Vocal Levels—Automatically

Vocals are the focus of almost all popular music, so they need a consistent level that’s never buried in the mix. But automating levels manually is tedious, and using heavy compression to even out the vocal levels ends up coloring your vocal sound.

Vocal Rider saves you time by riding gain automatically, while preserving the vocal’s full fidelity. Set a target level for the vocal, and Vocal Rider will take care of the rest. It unobtrusively raises or lowers the vocal’s gain to maintain the target level—just as if you were making fast, precise fader moves.

  • Time-saver: No need for manual drawing of automation curves
  • Ideal for vocals & voice in music, podcasts & video narration
  • No need for over-compression that suffocates the voice
  • Real-time operation adds no latency
  • Suitable for both studio and live mixing
  • Writes an automation track, so you can fine-tune levels easily

A Producer’s Dream Come True

Keep the Focus on the Voice

Waves - Vocal Rider - Keep the Focus on the Voice

Fluctuating vocal levels destroy the focus of a song’s most important element. Vocal Rider not only provides consistent vocal levels, but eliminates the tedious drawing of automation curves, or doing imprecise fader punch-ins.

Adapts Vocals to the Music

Waves - Vocal Rider - Adapts Vocals to the Music

Vocal Rider can level the vocal in isolation, or in context with the music’s overall dynamics. Feed a submix of the song’s instruments into Vocal Rider’s sidechain, and the vocal’s target level shifts according to the music’s level.

Automation Made Easy

Waves - Vocal Rider - Automation Made Easy

Vocal Rider can write an automation track that incorporates the automatic gain changes. If you want to make additional edits beyond leveling the vocals, just tweak the automation track.

Compensate for Mic Technique Issues

Waves - Vocal Rider - Compensate for Mic Technique Issues

Poor mic technique is a mixing nightmare, because of the wildly varying vocal levels. Vocal Rider can provide up to 12 dB of attenuation and 12 dB of gain, to make sure the vocal stays consistent.

Better Live Performances

Waves - Vocal Rider - Better Live Performances

Vocal Rider is ideal for the stage, because it adds no latency. In addition to reacting to level changes in the music, it can even prevent other instruments’ spillover from interfering with the vocal leveling process.

Additional Information

Vocal Rider (V15) - System Requirements
  • Mac
  • CPU
    Intel or Silicon Architecture
    See notes regarding Apple Silicon based processors

    Memory
    Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
    16 GB free disk space on the system drive

    Operating System
    macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14

    Screen Resolution
    Minimum: 1024x768
    Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
    USB displays are not supported as the primary display.

  • Windows
  • CPU
    X64 compatible Intel or AMD CPU

    Memory
    Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
    16 GB free disk space on the system drive

    Operating System
    Windows 10 64 bit
    Windows 11

    Screen Resolution
    Minimum: 1024x768
    Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024

Categories:

Vocal Processing

Formats:

Plugin

Tags:

Effects Plugin Sound Design Vocal

Discover More

View All Events

BROWSE ALL

Happening Now

View Heatwave Sale 2026

SHOP LIVE EVENT
Your Playlist CLEAR
Your playlist is currently empty. Visit a product page and add some tracks to your playlist
Audio Player

0:00
0:00