Spectral Cleaning Editor

charlton_nd wrote on 2/5/2017, 3:59 AM

This isn't exactly a problem, but a question: Why did Magix remove the original, more powerful and flexible Spectral Cleaning Editor in Audio Cleaning Lab after Audio Cleaning Lab 17? As a professional sound engineer restoring vintage recordings, I found the original Spectral Cleaning Editor to be really excellent, whereas the "user friendly" version that replaced it is very limited. I understand the need to simplify some processes for a mass consumer market, but it is a shame to lose the more powerful, more flexible tools that the professional user appreciates. In fact, I would really like to see an enhanced "Professional" version of Audio Cleaning Lab, with "Pro" features that would include the original Spectral Cleaning Editor (suggested added facilities would be the ability to change the FFT size and also an ability to freehand draw round anomalies like clicks).

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browj2 wrote on 2/6/2017, 2:40 PM

Hi,

I posted a message in the Forum part (of the old forum) a couple of years ago about this. For me, the complete spectral editor was in the first version of Video Sound Cleaning Lab. Then it disappeared and became a simpler version.

I raised the question with Magix and support sympathized with me, but that was all. The old tool was gone.

Now, the only version that makes sense is Audio & Music Lab Premium. Magix dumbed down ACL when they split it into ACL and AML. See below for the spectral editor that is in AML. It is slightly better than the first version.

The only complete spectral editor comes with Samplitude Pro X3 Suite - in the Cleaning and Restoration tools.

charlton_nd wrote on 2/6/2017, 4:09 PM

Thanks for the info. I still regularly use the excellent Spectral Cleaning editor in ACL ver. 16...which works (just about!) under Windows 10 (very occasionally it crashes). Such a shame they dumbed it down after ver. 17. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that ACL ver. 16 (which is better than ver. 17) will continue to work under future editions of Windows. I was wondering if Magix might re-introduce the original Spectral Cleaning editor (or something similar) in SoundForge, now they have bought that from Sony, but I doubt that this will happen

browj2 wrote on 2/8/2017, 8:15 PM

Here is the Spectal Cleaning editor in Samplitude ProX3 Suite:

This would be great to have in AML.