Looks funkylike a crazy menage a trois between Melodyne Sonic andCedar :) looks interesting

Interesting video about ReNovator (much more costly stuff with similar goal) and it's usage in films

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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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 :-)

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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, 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 ;)

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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SpectraLayers Pro 2.1 Update released:

• Free update for registered SpectraLayers Pro 2.0 users; purchase price unchanged.
• Interoperability with Sound Forge Pro Mac. Effortlessly move audio data between SpectraLayers Pro and Sound Forge Pro Mac and enjoy the strengths of both programs in a seamless process.
• Reverb removal process. Reduce or eliminate reverb in the spectral domain with just a few clicks.
• Improved noise reduction algorithm. Subtract more noise with less impact on the program material.
• Noise reduction process option. Send program material directly to a new layer.

More info at http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/spectralayerspro

Reverb removal feature seems very useful for us video guys, needs testing.

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.

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 :-)

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.