Playlist Rider
As a podcaster, live streamer, video creator or live sound engineer, you often feature multiple audio sources in your content. Oftentimes, you can’t predict the levels of these sources, so you either need to ride the channel faders manually, or write tedious volume automation slopes in post-production to ensure levels stay consistent throughout.
Playlist Rider does all this work for you. The plugin automatically adjusts the volume of multiple sources to a selected volume target – as if a mixing engineer was riding the faders for you.
Unlike limiters which crush your audio’s dynamic range, Playlist Rider preserves the natural dynamics of your sources by simply adjusting their volume in real time.
To achieve super-smooth results, Playlist rider can ignore low-volume parts, like background noise or music fade-ins and fade-outs, using a dedicated input detector threshold. The plugin can also normalize your audio sources to pink tonal curves, to smooth out tonal differences between sources and further improve your program’s consistency.
Playlist Rider is also ideal for live sound engineers and pro audio tech personnel who want to automatically balance program sources (DJ background music, YouTube, Smarphone, VTR, etc.) before or after live shows and during corporate events.
The Playlist Rider plugin runs in most major audio and video editing software, as well as in Waves’ eMotion LV1 live mixer and SuperRack plugin host – making it a must-have tool for podcasters, live streamers, video creators and live engineers who are not willing to accept less than perfectly smooth audio quality.
- Must-have tool for content creators and live sound engineers
- Smooths out the volume levels of multiple audio sources
- Sets volume to meet the selected target, automatically and in real time
- Nondestructive adjustment that preserves the source’s dynamic range
- As easy as set-and-forget
- Fast or slow attack times
- Tonal character shaper for smoothing out tonal differences
- Input detector threshold for low-volume part exclusion
- Runs in major audio and video editing software
- Compatible with Waves’ eMotion LV1 mixer and SuperRack plugin host
Playlist Rider (V13) – System Requirements
Mac
Intel Core i5 / i7 / i9 / Xeon / Apple M1
Memory
Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
16 GB free disk space on the system drive
Operating System
10.14.6, 10.15.7, 11.6.2, 12.1
Screen Resolution
Minimum: 1024×768
Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024
USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
V13 plugins require a graphics card that supports ‘Metal’.
Windows
Intel Core i5, i7, i9, Xeon (all Gen 5 and above)
AMD Quad Core
Memory
Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
16 GB free disk space on the system drive
Operating System
Windows 10 64 bit
Windows 11 (Build 22000.194)
Screen Resolution
Minimum: 1024×768
Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024
Playlist Rider (V13) – Supported Hosts
- The DAW versions listed below are the latest on which we tested and officially qualified each the latest version of our products.
- Waves’ latest version works on newer sub-versions of these DAWs, unless stated otherwise.
- If your DAW (or DAW version) is not listed here, we recommend you demo the product you wish to purchase to confirm it works.
- Your DAW must be running on an operating system that supports it in order for plugins to work properly. To confirm that your DAW version is supported on your operating system, please refer to your DAW’s website.
Mac
- Pro Tools 2021 (AAX Native, Audiosuite)
- Logic Pro X, 10.6.3 (Audio Units)
- Digital Performer 11 (Audio Units)
- Ableton Live 11 (VST3)
- Nuendo 11 (VST3)
- Cubase 11 (VST3)
- Main Stage 3 (Audio Units)
- Garage Band 10.4.4 (Audio Units)
- Audition 14 (VST3)
- Premiere Pro 15 (VST3)
- Studio One Professional 5 (VST3)
- FL Studio 20 (VST3)
- REAPER 6 (VST3)
- Reason 11, 12 (VST)
- Maschine 2 (VST)
- Komplete Kontrol 2 (VST)
- Bitwig Studio 4 (VST3)
- Luna 1.1.11 (Audio Units)
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Windows
- Pro Tools 2021 (AAX Native, Audiosuite)
- Ableton Live 11 (VST3)
- Nuendo 11 (VST3)
- Cubase 11 (VST3)
- Cakewalk by BandLab 2021 (VST3)
- Audition 14 (VST3)
- Premiere Pro 15 (VST3)
- Samplitude Pro X6 (VST3)
- Sequoia 15 (VST3)
- Pyramix 25th (VST)
- Studio One Professional 5.3 (VST3)
- FL Studio 20 (VST3)
- REAPER 6 (VST3)
- Reason 11, 12 (VST)
- Maschine 2 (VST)
- Komplete Kontrol 2 (VST)
- Bitwig Studio 4 (VST3)
Playlist Rider (V13) – Sample Rate
All Waves plugins support 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz; most support higher sample rates.
Avid VENUE supports up to 48 kHz.
Plugin | Sample Rate |
---|---|
Playlist Rider | 96 kHz |
Playlist Rider (V13) – Latency
The table below indicates how much latency is produced by each plugin, in samples.
Not all plugins support all platforms (MultiRack, StudioRack, eMotion, Venue). See the Supported Platforms for more info.
Native / SoundGrid | Venue TDM | |||||
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Plugin | 44.1 kHz – 48 kHz | 88.2 kHz – 96 kHz | 176.4 kHz – 192 kHz | 48 kHz | ||
Playlist Rider | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A |