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rraud wrote on 12/8/2021, 10:30 AM

Try out the ACL (Audio Cleaning Lab) trial version and see for yo'self.
ACL is probably not necessary if you already have SF Pro. AFAIK, the WizardFx (stomp box type Fx) are not included w/ SFP.
Upgrading to the SF Pro Suite version would be money better spent IMO. SpectralLayers Pro alone is worth the upgrade cost (about the same cost of ACL outright).

Former user wrote on 12/8/2021, 2:09 PM

@rraud Thanks for your insights. I was confusing the plugins post with this one. The SFP suite is a great value for Spectra Layers Pro, except the latter is weak when it comes to documentation.

rraud wrote on 12/8/2021, 5:34 PM

ACL= Audio Cleaning Lab

SLP (SpectraLayers Pro), was originally developed by Robin Lobel and published by Sony (or was it Sonic Forundry) along with Sound Forge, Vegas and Acid, and subsequently acquired by Magix with the other SCS A/V apps. However a few years ago, Steinberg acquired the publishing rights and Robin in still involved with it's development (and moderates the Steinberg SpectraLayers forum). I originally tried SpectraLayers 2 a long time ago but could not get my head around it and gave up. Recently (a year or two) I needed to remove some odd string noise for a Celtic harp remastering project and tried SLP again, since nothing else would work. I was totally blown away, and it literally rocked my world. There is somewhat of a learning curve though for manual the editing chores, but if one is familiar with advanced photo editing (Photoshop type apps), there are similarities and the leaning curve may be less steep. SLP can also extract 'stem' tracks (drums, vocals, bass, keys and 'other' from a previously mixed song, It ain't perfect, but in my experience with a full rock band album, the stem tracks were clean enough to remix It also does the other typical noise reduction suite process/ .. however it is limitless with some experimentation and due diligence. Here are some Stienberg promo videos . SLP-8 is the current release