Vocal Production
Get the best-sounding tools to produce your vocal tracks. Tune, pitch-shift, bend, synthesize, fix, mix and add effects to achieve your best vocal sounds, with the same plugins used to produce artists from Beyoncé to Drake to Billie Eilish.
The Vocal Production suite includes 15 of the music industry’s most popular vocal plugins, to help you produce and mix studio-quality vocals that sound modern, professional, creative and polished:
- Waves Tune Real-Time for real-time creative vocal tuning
- OVox Vocal ReSynthesis, the next-generation voice-controlled synth and vocal FX plugin
- Vocal Bender for that pitch-shifted Travis Scott-style vocal sound
- Vocal Rider for keeping your vocal levels perfect – automatically
- R-Vox, the classic vocal compressor, used on every Beyoncé vocal and hailed by Drake producer Noah “40” Shebib as “one of the most important vocal plugins ever created”
- Waves Tune for maximum-control, surgical-precision vocal pitch correction
- Sibilance, Renaissance DeEsser and DeBreath for cleaning your vocals, by quickly removing those unwanted vocal breaths and harsh “s” sounds
- Doubler for classic vocal doubling and backing vocal enhancement
- 5 more classic reverb, delay, EQ and compression plugins to complete your pro-quality vocal production and mixing abilities
Whether it’s hip hop, rock, pop or R&B, the vocal is the most important part of your productions. Give it the sound it deserves with the Waves Vocal Production suite.
Vocal Production (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
Vocal Production (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)
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)
Vocal Production (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.
Native / SoundGrid | Venue TDM | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plugin | 44.1 kHz – 48 kHz | 88.2 kHz – 96 kHz | 176.4 kHz – 192 kHz | 48 kHz | ||
DeBreath | 44.1 kHz: 32384 48 kHz: 35248 |
88.2 kHz: 64768 96 kHz: 70496 |
N/A | N/A | ||
Doubler | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
OVox Vocal ReSynthesis | 0 | 128 | N/A | N/A | ||
Renaissance Axx | 64 | 128 | 256 | 67 | ||
Renaissance Channel | 65 | 129 | 257 | 129 | ||
Renaissance DeEsser | 64 | 128 | 256 | 67 | ||
Renaissance Vox | 64 | 128 | 256 | 67 | ||
Sibilance | 44.1 kHz: Live & Full no Lookahead: 0 Full with Lookahead: 529 48 kHz: |
88.2 kHz: Live & Full no Lookahead: 0 Full with Lookahead: 1058 96 kHz: |
N/A | N/A | ||
SuperTap | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
TrueVerb | 0 | 0 | N/A | 3 | ||
Vocal Bender | Zero or near-zero latency (depending on pitch) | Zero or near-zero latency (depending on pitch) | N/A | N/A | ||
Vocal Rider | 0 | 0 | N/A | 3 | ||
Waves Tune | 3072 | 6144 | N/A | N/A | ||
Waves Tune LT | 3072 | 6144 | N/A | N/A | ||
Waves Tune Real-Time | Zero or near-zero latency (depending on pitch) | Zero or near-zero latency (depending on pitch) | N/A | N/A |