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The Component Level

Unmix Components is a similar process. Here you choose a single instrument like a snare hit, a full drum kit,
an acoustic guitar track or a vocal, and
SLP 7 will break it down into a tone
layer, a noise layer, and a transient
layer. From there, you can go to town
with the spectral editing toolset, VST 3
effects and more. Massage or clean up
your tracks, such as altering the tone of
a kick or snare drum without losing its
thwack and attack, or dive deep into
sound design delights.

Spectral Assistance, Please!

When it's time to go spectral, SLP 7
has improved frequency selection tools.
You can now grab, drag, and adjust selection boundaries for increased accuracy. Once your selection is made, the
new Pattern Finder intelligently scans
the entire track to find other instances
of the same sound across the timeline.

Be Healed

Over the course of my review, one
of my most-used SLP 7 features was the

now AI-improved Healing process. Similar to the healing tool in Photoshop that
removes dust, speckles, scratches, and
discoloration in a photo, healing in SLP
analyzes the noise, tones and transients
of an audio selection. In simple terms,
it removes what it determines does not
belong-a burst of static from a bad
cable, a dropped drum stick, a bumped
mic stand, a click or pop, etc.

Reduce, Repair, Remove

Spectral editing has long been a
great way to remove noise, hum, clicks,
pops and even reverb. New in SLP 7
is a series of one-stop spectral macros.
These include Clip Repair, Click Repair,
Hum Reduction, and De-Esser; select
the offending audio, pull up the process, and apply it. Each process contains a simple, well-chosen selection of
parameters, and when previewed or
applied, you can see the change instantly in the spectrogram. Note these
are not plugins, and they don't run in
real time-this is a back-and-forth preview, apply, undo, tweak, and reapply
workflow. In use, each process works

quite well and holds its own with most
similar plugin-based repair suites on the
market. Of particular note are the noise
reduction and de-esser processes.

Wrapping up

This highlights a few of the significant new advancements in Steinberg
SpectraLayers Pro 7. There's much
more to explore, especially in the
areas of workflow enhancements
and improved ARA 2 support, which
make working with SLP natively inside
Cubase and Nuendo very convenient.
To learn more, check out the great new
videos on the Steinberg website and
YouTube channel.
Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 7 shines
with improved intelligent processes that
allow you to get great results fast with
minimal fuss, and then go in deeper
than ever with increased accuracy.

Price: SpectraLayers Pro 7 $299;
SpectraLayers Elements 7 $79
(upgrade options available)
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