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Waves new Vocal Rider plugin was just introduced at AES 2009. Vocal Rider is designed to match your vocal tracks to the rest of the mix and then keep 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. The plug-in fader then takes over, keeping the relative volume of the vocals and the rest of the mix constant. And, unlike compression, Vocal Rider doesn’t crush the dynamic range or color the vocal track at all.

• Intelligent adjustment of the vocal track based on the dynamics of the music
• Saves time doing the kind of automation you would have to do manually
• Writes automatic volume riding to the track as automation for fine tuning

So, will it work? Or rather, will it work well? The idea is more than a little interesting to me. I guess only time and a FREEeee hands-on demo will tell.

Take a look at the video of it in action:

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