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You’ll be able to download the latest version of the plugin from there, as well as to get in touch with the developer if you have any questions and/or bug reports. It seems that Terry West’s website is down at the moment, so I’m linking to the official KVR Audio forum thread in the downloads section below. So, if you have a nicely compressed vocal track which gets masked in the mix by a guitar track or a backing vocal track, VocRider will make your life easier by adjusting the main vocal’s volume throughout the arrangement, so that it doesn’t get covered by those other tracks. Apart from this fundamental feature, the plugin (which was updated to v1.3 yesterday) also comes with a handy “de-harsher” module to smooth out the higher frequency content, a simple 2-band EQ and a main output volume control. What it will do however is to automatically control the level of your vocals so that they stay on top of other elements of the mix (which are sent to VocRider through the side-chain input). To avoid any confusion, VocRider won’t automa gically level the volume of your vocal tracks in Waves Vocal Rider fashion (in other words, it won’t level out your vocalist’s performance). Hook up the vocal channel to the plugin’s left input and connect the side-chain signal (which will be used to ride the volume level of the vocals) to the right channel. I was able to set everything up in 30 seconds (literally) in MuLab due to its modular nature.
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The download pack includes a text document which explains how to set up VocRider in Cubase, however the setup process will be more or less complicated than that depending on which DAW you’re using.
See also: Best Freeware Compressor VST Plugins!
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The plugin was built on a concept similar to the vocal riding workflow in Cubase which was described in Sound On Sound magazine ( here’s the actual article if you want to take a look), except that Terry West’s latest freeware creation will work in any VST plugin compatible DAW (as long as it’s a 32-bit Windows application and it supports basic side-chaining). so you just need to feed those ins and you are good to go.VocRider is a freeware vocal rider VST plugin developed by Terry West, providing smooth leveling of vocal tracks in relation to the backing tracks and the rest of the mix. Vocal Rider plugin does not have a sidechain labeled in, it is just using the 3/4 in of the track as the sidechain input. Sidechaining works pretty straighforward. I used it in all of my tracks for Voice Riding with no issues at all.
What you should expect is that after feeding the sidechain of the Vocal Rider you can colckwise move the Music knob and the light indicator next to it will turn on to different levels of green, indicating how much of the sidechain is being used for deteriminig the level to which Vocal Rider should keep the vocal track volume. Maybe you are expecting that the Music know moves by itself which is not how that knob works. Unlike reacomp, vocal rider does not have a place to explicitly choose the 3/4 input. So the 3/4 is somehow not working properly I guess. On reading the documentation I understand that the knob only activates if it detects a sidechain input.
But somehow the music knob on the rider plugin does not activate. I did send the music track to 3/4 on the vocal track, where the vocal rider is. Just be careful cause if you set it too hard and a short attack it tends to make the sound a bit grainy.
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Plus - as mentioned - it's very pricey, like most Waves stuff. Frankly, you can hear that rather well too, without writing automation, when you know what to listen for. Ideally, the dynamic profile of the track and the profile of the automation curve should be identical, or as close as possible to identical.īut instead, you'll see that the output envelope from the plugin and the dynamic of the track will have little in common. Then visually compare the dynamic profile of the track with the dynamic profile of the automation. Put it on a very dynamic track, set the plugin as carefully as you can, then write the plugin output to automation (with "Reduce envelope data. Waves makes some good stuff but this one is terrible IMO. well ok maybe if I got paid but I still wouldn't use it. I wouldn't have Vocal Rider if I got paid to take it.