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Introduction
Vocal (and generally) gain riding is a widely used technique to control loudness of audio
tracks with the volume slider instead of compression. Doing this by hand during a critical
phase of the mixing session could be very painful. Automatic gain riding within a DAW by
using an audio plugin could be very comfortable. And if this plugin gives enough flexibility
and control over the riding process it could be useful for a broad range of applications starting
from simple vocal/bass riding up to tricky voice over recordings for commercials.
So,
GainRider 2
gives you this flexibility and the full control over the riding process.
Features
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3 ride modes: loudness leveling, ducking, loudness leveling to side-chain.
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Detailed control of gain change (speed, pre-delay, min, max, idle).
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Flexible pre-delay including zero delay mode.
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Loudness measurement based on EBUR128 ML
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Large display to monitor impact of plugin parameters.
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Flexible pre filter.
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DAW side chaining (VST3/RTAS/AAX/AU) or channel 3+4 (VST2).
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Read/Write automation data.
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A/B control.
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Free update for GainRider users
2 How GainRider 2 works
The gain adjustment is based on "true loudness" measurement (EBUR128 ML). GainRider 2
compares constantly the loudness of the control signal with the target level and adjusts gain of
the main signal (mode INT). The gain riding starts as soon as the measured loudness is above
the NoiseLevel value and stops if it is below.
The maximum gain adjustment is limited by the RangeMin and RangeMax values just to
avoid overemphasis of certain parts of the signal or even "pumping" effects.
The look ahead of the algorithm is controlled by the pre-delay control, starting from 0ms
(zero delay) up to 3000ms.
