Jesse G

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I followed this tutorial. No idea how old this thread are, but if anyone here uses Waves Vocal Rider, it would be great with a few things cleared up.
 
When I followed these  steps, the "Music" sensitivty button gets active and the green light is active too. So, when that is the case it is working as intended, right? The reason I ask is because on all the tutorials videos I can find (Not any with Sonar), then there are a "Key Input" option with a key symbol at the high/left. Can not see this here in Sonar Platinum.
 
I guess all is good when the "Music" knob and the green light is active.?.

The Key on the plugin is for users of Daw's (Pro Tools) that support Side Chaining via the plug in.  Cakewalk doesn't use side chaining that way.  You are suppose to use the sends and select the bus that contains Vocal Rider with the option for side chaining.  Don't just select a Bus, select the Bus that has the long name with Vocal Rider in it.  Look at my previous pic above, there are bus names and below then\m are the plugin names and buses which support side chaining, select the one with Vocal Rider.

I know what you mean & got it too work. Thanks.
 
Actually got it too work by following the main post tutorial. Just needed to be sure that I did it correctly. It was actually the key on the plugin that confused me on all the tutorial videos.

Glad it's working for you, now go and get those vocal levels right, ...

The Vocal Riderr manual is exceptionally well laid out with all the above info easily found.
For future reference:
Manuals are all in the Download link on the Home page where you select Manuals/Plugins. All the manuals for every plugin and every bit of hardware are listed alphabetically.

Hmmm...I didn't know that Vocal Rider was supposed to be LAST in the chain.
 
AFTER the compressor?  
 
I would have thought the other way around.  Get your levels right first, then compress.

Just reviving this thread (very useful thanks OP).
 
Also, I am having difficulty getting Sonar to "see" anything other than the 32 bit Vocal Rider plugin.
It wouldn't be so bad but every time I try changing something and rescan it takes about 10 minutes each time only to find that the 64 bit plugin is still not visible.
 
Is there a specific location that needs to be added to the plugin folders for 64 bit Vocal Rider to be included?
 
Note that the only locations on my SSD with Vocal Rider.dll in them are:
 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Waves\Plug-Ins V9\Vocal Rider.bundle\Contents\Win32
C:\Program Files (x86)\Waves\Plug-Ins V9\Vocal Rider.bundle\Contents\Win64
 
and I have C:\Program Files (x86)\Waves\Plug-Ins V9 in my scan options which should pick up both although to my mind there should be an equivalent folder in C:\Program Files (not the x86 one) with 64 bit plugins but I guess Waves were trying to simplify things.
 
For that matter I would like to exclude any 32 bit Waves plugins from the scan if that's possible as they are cluttering up all of my plugin menus?
 
Thanks
ZT
 
EDIT: To answer my own post I re-installed Vocal Rider and the 64 bit version showed up. No idea what happened the first time.
I just wish Waves gave the option of only installing 64 bit plugins.