But not a big deal right now.Įchoing your comment about the tedium of automating faders.there’s nothing I dislike more than having to spend my time drawing automation. I wonder if I could convince them to charge me $3 more haha. And what's funny is you get a free $29 plugin when you spend $50. Right now with the coupon it takes it down to $47. I have looked at the current sale, and I've seen Vocal Rider for as low as $29 before, so since I don't need it right this second, I can wait. The concept just seems like a basic feature, and the DAW that has it as a right-click option would make it appealing. The main point of this thread was the idea it inspired of having it as a built-in feature. I'll certainly have projects again where I can put it to use, but not any at the moment. I trialled Leveler and it was OK but it really would not save me much time or effort so I passed on buying it, plus I tend to work in several different DAWs so an RE is not ideal (Using RRP just to run leveller would feel a bit excessive).Īnd we're getting off topic but Giles, have you ever considered making a VST version of leveller? It's a much bigger marketplace and there are not many easy to use upward compression tools. In my world a typical vocal track treatment would be listening and looking for excessively quiet bits, manually editing those sections to get them about the same as the adjacent sections then using vocal rider and compression for the rest. Oh I realise they are not quite the same thing but the OP was wanting something like the Waves plugin and I wondered why he doesn't just use the Waves plugin.

Plus Leveler does MANY other super cool things you can't do with other devices - it was never designed specifically for vocals, BTW… If you know how to mix, that's no problem but if you're slow or unable to hear vocal balances, then Waves will be a better solution no doubt.

Leveler only gets you 'leveled out' with regard to vocals and with no regard to the rest of the mix. If properly set up, Waves does a different thing (listening to the whole mix) than Leveler does, and does it better than any other solution I'm familiar with in my limited experience with such devices. If you like the Waves result, why not just buy it? It's almost always on offer, currently 40% off with coupon code CREATIVE40. I think it gives better results than Selig's Leveller but that might put me in a minority on this forum! It probably does about 90% of the work and then I manually tweak the rest, usually the bit with the biggest volume variations (mostly due to less than ideal vocal technique). Waves Vocal Rider is something I use in almost every project.

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