SpectraLayers introduces an innovative, unique workflow that redefines what can be accomplished in the professional audio editor's suite," said Dave Chaimson, vice president of global marketing for Sony Creative Software. "The level of editing precision and advanced capabilities SpectraLayers offers makes it an essential tool for industry professionals who demand the deepest audio analysis tools."
SpectraLayers Offers the Following Transformational Features:
Extreme Audio Editing
Extraction Tools
Extract audio into independent layers using intelligent, programmable tools:
Modification Tools
Operate directly on waveform spectra to perform precise, creative edits:
Creation Tools
Create sound directly in the SpectraLayers interface
Fidelity / Flexibility
32-bit 96 kHz capable.
SpectraLayers is available for both Mac and Windows platforms.
Available:
More info:
Steinberg Spectralayers Pro 7
AI
Just as audio engineers focus on separating increasingly fine details in sound, the new AI in SpectraLayers Pro 7 uses algorithms to learn from the data flowing through its built-in neural network. In the same way that these algorithms can now accurately determine how to apply color to a black and white photograph, the AI in SpectraLayers Pro can sense discrete events in a sound field and isolate them on independent, colorful layers for processing. AI is changing faster than its history can be written — be at the leading edge with SpectraLayers Pro 7.
Unmix - Tracks to stems
This AI-assisted process in SpectraLayers Pro scans the finished file of a song, allowing you to “unmix” it and extract the different instruments to separate layers, with default settings for vocals, piano, bass, drums, and more. (SpectraLayers Elements allows extraction of vocals only.)
Pattern finder
Significant advances in pattern recognition are a hallmark of today’s rapidly evolving AI technology. SpectraLayers Pro 7 allows you to select a target sound and then trigger a search to automatically locate and select every other similar sound in the spectrum.
Voice Denoiser
Perfect for cleaning up location interview recordings, the Voice Denoiser algorithm is trained to recognize and isolate the human voice. You can automatically attenuate everything but the voice for maximum intelligibility.
De-esser
Spectral de-essing is the most precise and least invasive way to tame and shape vocal sibilants. Manual de-essing in SpectraLayers Pro has always been quick and easy. Now, the new automatic de-essing feature makes it even easier. Manual or automatic — either approach is far more accurate than typical waveform-based plug-in processing
Hum reduction
This automatic process detects and eliminates unwanted hum, as well as higher harmonics generated by the fundamental tone. Hum harmonics can be independently attenuated to the level you choose.
Clip repair
Clipped peaks come in many shapes and sizes. The AI in SpectraLayers Pro 7 has seen and evaluated 32,000 of them, so it knows exactly what to look for and how to automatically apply the best repair.
Click repair
Automatically detect and repair clicks, crackles and pops. Invert the process to audition problem sounds in isolation, then execute the repair after you’ve dialed in the fix you need.
Improved healing
Better interpolation and faster performance, now assisted by AI, looks more closely at noise, tones and transients, making this easy repair process more versatile and precise than ever.
https://new.steinberg.net/spectralayers/new-features/
It is clearly open attack on iZotope RX, and they could match it in next version. Price is already very friendly.
SpectraLayers Elements 6
They want to copy iZotope approach :-)
Owner is changed again
Since Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 6 it is owned by Steinberg
MAGIX SpectraLayers Pro 5.0
Cleaning Dialogue in Spectralayers Pro 4
They need to fix the interface. JKL or one-frame arrow controls would be a big help. The waveform display is crude compared to Izotope. SP is more powerful than Izotope, but a pain to use.
New version with speshul offer.
What's new in SpectraLayers Pro 4 Revolutionary audio editing: SpectraLayers Pro 4. The latest update is impressive with optimized workflows and improved performance as a standalone version as well as in cooperation with other programs such as Sound Forge Pro and AVID Pro Tools®.
Read more: http://www.magix.com/us/spectralayers/specials/spectralayers-pro-4/
I would have had no trouble understanding that it was optimized for Windows had I known about it. I ran it on Windows 2000 back in the day, so I really do know how great it was.
They left Xara a Windows app and only updated it as the OS changed. It was the only reason I ran Boot Camp. There are now OSX applications which will replace it without having to ride the Adobe train and spend weeks learning how to do the simplest operation. So I don't use Xara anymore, which frees me from having to run Windows.
You just have trouble understanding how optimized Xara is. Hence it has huge amount of code specific to Windows and making it work great on old slow computers. Modern apps with similar functions just use brute force and huge CPU/GPU resources.
Too late. I'm not about to change now. Moving forward, though, the people at Magix might consider a fundamental UI rewrite. They left Xara a Windows app and only updated it as the OS changed. It was the only reason I ran Boot Camp. There are now OSX applications which will replace it without having to ride the Adobe train and spend weeks learning how to do the simplest operation. So I don't use Xara anymore, which frees me from having to run Windows.
Besides, the trial version of RX is so crippled that you can't determine exactly what it can do. So, I chose Spectralayers, and spent two weeks learning to remove noise in an extremely difficult situation. It worked.
Well you can try RX5 another way, not so crippled and very cheap :-)
Rx5 is the latest version. It is quite good.
The Sony version of 3 is extremely powerful, but the interface is a bitch. The OSX version was obviously ported from Windows - it does not support trackpad gestures, so I had to use a mouse (ugh). Izotope RX-4 (the latest version when I tested both) is much more intuitive, but cannot get down to the fine detail as Spectralayers can, and the standard version does not include reverb. You have to pay $1100 for the pro version to get that. Besides, the trial version of RX is so crippled that you can't determine exactly what it can do. So, I chose Spectralayers, and spent two weeks learning to remove noise in an extremely difficult situation. It worked.
MAGIX SpectraLayers Pro 3
SpectraLayers Pro 2.1 Update released:
More info at http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/spectralayerspro
Reverb removal feature seems very useful for us video guys, needs testing.
SpectraLayers Pro 2 introduced.
New stuff:
More info at http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/spectralayerspro
hey guys! for people having problem selecting the hear (speaker) in more than one layer try pressing "esc" once. then select the layer/s you want to be heard. I don't know if it is a bug and/or which systems or machines are affected, have found another fella over creative cow with same problem. here using an old macbook pro and OS 10.6.8
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While I love the technology, so far the proof is in the putting, and using easy "sirens" is a good demo, but hardly a typical usecase for this. They seem to be claiming to do quite a bit, but only showing the simplest usecase. It's a demo
Just get one and use. As for demo - they use simplest thing as it is obvious to everyone. If you start removing small noises and sounds (as most people will be doing) it could be just hard to spot :-)
While I love the technology, so far the proof is in the putting, and using easy "sirens" is a good demo, but hardly a typical usecase for this. They seem to be claiming to do quite a bit, but only showing the simplest usecase. It's a demo, but it would have been nice to show at least how one could clean up the extraction better, and maybe even show how you could extract/cancel out a more complicated case like a voice.
The touch ups that seem to be showed, are very rudimentary. I like the non-destructive nature of it, and as one who has lots of experience with image touchup and editing, I liken the tools they provide (demo) as one of two: 1) too simplistic 2) too automatic (similar to some new photoshop tools, where it promises the moon (remove an object for example, or seamless image rescaling), but in practice only work in very clinical situations, and on real-world cases show massive artifacting.
In the end, for my image editing (which often is removing unwanted objects), I still end up using layers and manual methods, as the blending tools work much better for getting "seamless" results. For my audio editing, I'd love a similar tool, from what I see in spectralayers, it's getting there, but it's not quite there yet for primetime.
On the other hand, the ReNovator seems way more in in my domain, more control, definitely more of a focus on tools for image manipulation.
Actually, I for this type of work, it might be better to do a mish mash, use spectralayers to do harmonic selection, export all the layers into photoshop, and do serious image manipulation on them. We need a photoshop plugin asap ;)
Its outstanding. Ive removed stuff from recordings that I thought could never have been rid of. Its intricate - it takes time to master properly but its bloody-well worth it - a great app.
Right now price is $219. And price is quite right, as they had low price for short period and our members bough out all of items in less than two hours :-)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MIMHGM/sr=8-1/qid=1365791659/
Wow, looks awesome, but on the other hand, I would have liked sound editing software to be priced a little lower ($250?).
Adobe Audition has a similar spectral analysis and repair feature, but this is so much more powerful AND non destructive. I'm glad that SONY is now making software products that include the Mac platform.
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