SpectraLayers Pro 13

A New Era in Unmixing and Spectral Editing

SpectraLayers 13 builds on the application’s core strengths in a new edition which delivers powerful new post-production options and workflow enhancements that span the entire application. New and improved algorithms include tools for creative unmixing, speech refinement, audio reconstruction, and noise control.

Working with selections in the spectrum is easier and more flexible than ever, with new options for sizing, fading, and pasting content. User-requested improvements focus on new utilities, studio compatibility, and other practical refinements, making this edition perfectly suited for integration with contemporary workflows.

Features

New and Improved Modules

• Unmix Sound Effects separates short sounds from ambient background sounds
• Ambience Heal fills empty spaces in the audio spectrum automatically
• Reconstruct resynthesizes selected spectral data
• Attenuate module for attenuating high-amplitude content within selections
• Voice DeClick removes unwanted mouth noises
• Voice DeCrosstalk separates non-target voices from the primary voice
• Unmix Two Voices automatically separates two voices
• Level Check quickly calculates and displays a variety of loudness data
• Fade functions allow you to apply fades to selections within single layers
• Improved DeNoise is an improved noiseprint-based noise reduction
• Improved Unmix Components module provides more accurate separation

Workflow and User Interface Improvements

• Paste Into Selection is ideal for repeating or replacing events in the timeline.
• Paste Insert let's you easily select a selection-length period of time
• Dynamic Fade-Shaping Control sliders can now be used on active selections
• Resize Selection Corners allows time and frequency coordinates to be adjusted simultaneously
• Disable Selection Fades allows for fades to be switched off via menu or shortcut
• Disable Selection Events from History allows for more flexibility with Selection Events
• Module Information Help displays descriptions of module functionality, keyboard shortcuts etc.
• Search Modules by Name and Keyword quickly locates modules
• Interface Layout Presets saves and recalls interface states for frequently used scenarios
• New Shortcuts are now available for more than 100 functions
• New Metering options with added functionality such as Display Peaks, RMS or Loudness

Further Enhancements

• Improved Pro Tools AudioSuite Bridge Plug-in includes support for round trip editing and processing of multiple audio clips at once
• Batch Process Open Projects allows you to apply the full range of sophisticated batch processing options
• More than 128 Device Channels let’s you integrate audio devices with channels mapped beyond the 128th device channel
• Unmix Transcription Export Options for exporting to frame rates such as 23.976

A new era of features for music and post-production

Unmix Sound Effects

This new process separates short sounds from continuous environmental and ambient background sounds, such as wind, crowd, traffic, and nature.

Ideal for audio post, it enables fast, precise isolation of a very wide range of sounds, extracting them to their own dedicated layer while retaining the background texture.

This can then be shaped and smoothed using other new processes in this version.

Ambience Heal

Automatically fill empty spaces in the audio spectrum left by unmixing and cut-to operations. For example, empty spaces previously occupied by voices on a source layer can be filled with the surrounding background texture (environment, room tone, etc) already present in the layer.

The process references user- designated foreground layers containing content extracted from the source layer.

ReConstruct

This new module resynthesizes selected spectral data. It analyses and reconstructs tones (by tracking before and after selections), transients (by tracking above and below selections), and noise. Reconstruction amounts are configurable for all three components.

Attenuate

Attenuate relatively high-amplitude content within selections, based on the maximum spectral power of the surrounding content. This facilitates easy, natural-sounding blending with selection-adjacent content.

Voice DeCrosstalk

Separate non-target voices (background or foreground) from the primary voice, even when they are overlapping. Speech unmixing has never been easier!

Voice DeClick

Remove unwanted mouth noises, such as lip smacks and tongue clicks. Threshold, pixel width, and reduction ratio controls are provided for fine-tuning the process.

Unmix Two Voices

Automatically separate two voices without having to register voice profiles. This is one of the workflow speed and efficiency improvements which are a hallmark of the new edition.

Level Check

Quickly calculate and display a variety of loudness data, including True Peak and a host of LU measurements. Calculations update automatically and can be made on spectral selections, as well as any combination of layers.

In addition, clicking on various fields in the module interface makes the playhead snap to the exact project locations where instantaneous data was gathered.

Fade

Apply fades to selections within single layers or crossfade between two selected layers in a project. Choose fade in, fade out, or let the module automatically determine the fade type, based on the selection location in the timeline. Four fade types are provided.

Improved DeNoise

Noiseprint-based noise reduction is alive and well! This classic SpectraLayers process is now improved with the addition of controls which add increased precision and variable spectral smoothness.

Improved Unmix Components

It’s a sound designer’s delight! This process is now improved to provide more accurate detection and separation of discrete tones, transients, and noise.