RX10 Advanced Features & Substitutes
(No Soundwide, No Waves Audio, No unsupported plugins)
Most substitutes aren’t stand-alone applications and need a DAW or audio editor as a VST/AU/AAX plugin host to be able to work.
Noise Reduction:
Breath Control | None so far. Using noise gate might help.
De-bleed - Leakage of one signal into other | Steinberg SpectraLayers, Wilkinson Audio DeBleeder
De-click - Clicks, pops, digital impulse noise | Acon Digital Restoration Suite, Sonnox Oxford DeClicker, Steinberg SpectraLayers, Steinberg WaveLab RestoreRig
Mouth De-click - Clicks and lip smacks | Oeksound Spiff
De-clip - Digital and analog clipping artifacts | Acon Digital Restoration Suite, Steinberg SpectraLayers
De-crackle - Continuous background crackle | Sonnox Oxford DeClicker, Steinberg WaveLab RestoreRig
De-ess - Reduce sibilance of S, F, X, SH, soft C. | Celemony Melodyne, DMGAudio Essence, Fabfilter Pro-DS, Sonnox Oxford SuprEsser, HOFA IQ-Series DeEsser, Oeksound soothe2, Softube Weiss Deess, SSL DeEss, Steinberg SpectraLayers, Steinberg WaveLab DeEsser
De-hum – Reduce hum, wireless ring, interference | Acon Digital Restoration Suite, Sonnox Oxford DeBuzzer, Steinberg SpectraLayers
Guitar De-noise | Acon Digital Restoration Suite, Sonnox Oxford DeNoise, Steinberg SpectraLayers, Steinberg WaveLab RestoreRig
Spectral De-noise - Noise reduction (AI) | Acon Digital Restoration Suite, Sonnox Oxford DeNoise, Steinberg SpectraLayers, Steinberg WaveLab RestoreRig
Voice De-noise | Acon Digital Restoration Suite, Sonnox Oxford DeNoise, Steinberg SpectraLayers, Steinberg WaveLab RestoreRig
De-plosive - Plosive pops and microphone bumps | Using pop shields, Acon Digital Restriction Suite
De-reverb | Accentize DeRoom, Acon Digital DeVerberate, Sonible proximity:EQ+, Steinberg SpectraLayers, Zynaptiq Unveil
Dialogue De-reverb | Accentize DeRoom, Acon Digital DeVerberate, Sonible proximity:EQ+, Steinberg SpectraLayers, Zynaptiq Unveil
De-rustle - Microphone rubbing | Acon Digital Restoration Suite
De-wind | Acon Digital Restoration Suite
Dialogue Post:
Ambience Match - Match noise floor. | Steinberg SpectraLayers
Dialogue Contour - Pitch correction designed to change inflection of words. | Antares Auto-Tune Pro, Celemony Melodyne, Soundtoys Little AlterBoy, Steinberg Cubase VariAudio, Steinberg SpectraLayers, Synchro Arts Revoice Pro
Dialogue De-reverb | Accentize DeRoom, Acon Digital DeVerberate, Sonible proximity:EQ+, Steinberg SpectraLayers, Zynaptiq Unveil
Dialogue Isolate - Isolate dialog from background noise with highly variable characters. | Acon Digital Extract:Dialogue
Leveler - Level the dialogue volume, keeping breathes and sibilance lower. (AI) | None so far. Some combination of noise gate and de-esser should be used.
Multiple Speaker Detection | None so far
Spectral Recovery - Restore frequencies above 4k removed during streaming. (AI) | Acon Digital Acoustica Vitalize
Text Navigation | None so far
Audio Post:
Azimuth - Repair stereo imbalances and phase issues due to improper head/tape alignment. | Sonalksis StereoTools, Steinberg WaveLab Pan Normalizer
Center Extract - Preserves or removes center channel. | Leapwing Audio CenterOne, Nugen Audio Halo Upmix
Deconstruct - Adjust independent levels of tone and noise. De-noise highly time-variable noises like residual vinyl noise. | None so far
Dither | Fabfilter Pro-L 2, Goodhertz Good Dither, MAAT LINpro, MAAT LINsurround, PSP X-Dither, Steinberg WaveLab
Equalizer - 6 bands | Any digital EQ might be a good replacement
EQ Match - Match EQ profiles of two selections. (AI) | Steinberg SpectraLayers
Find Similar - Repair similar events. (AI) | Steinberg SpectraLayers
Fade | AirWindows PurestFade, DMGAudio TrackControl, Sonalksis FreeG, Steinberg WaveLab
Gain | AirWindows PurestGain, Blue Cat’s Gain Suite, DMGAudio TrackControl
Interpolate - Repair individual audio clicks, below 4000 samples in length replacing the whole selection with the replacement signal. | None so far
Loudness Control - Loudness standard targets | Nugen Audio LM Correct 2
Mixing - Control L/R signal and balance level. | Sonalksis StereoTools, Steinberg WaveLab
Music Rebalance - Gain adjustment of vocals, bass, percussion, other instruments. | Facebook Research Demucs, Steinberg SpectraLayers
Normalize - Set Target Peak Level | Nugen Audio LM Correct 2
Phase - Rotate signal phase. | DMGAudio EQuilibrium, MeldaProduction MAutoAlign, SSL Native X-Phase
Resample - Sample Rate Conversion | foobar2000, Sonic Illusions FinalCD, SoX, Weiss Engineering Saracon
Signal Generator - Silence, tones and noise. | MeldaProduction MOscillator, Steinberg Cubase TestGenerator
Spectral Repair - Identify and address problem frequencies and unwanted sounds. (AI) | Steinberg SpectraLayers
Variable Pitch - Adjust pitch preserving the time and length. | Celemony Melodyne, Steinberg SpectraLayers
Variable Time - Adjust the time stretch without altering the pitch. | Celemony Melodyne, Steinberg SpectraLayers
Wow & Flutter - Correct pitch modulations on old tapes. | Celemony Capstan
Visualization:
Spectrogram | Acon Digital Acoustica, DMGAudio TrackMeter, Nugen Audio Visualizer, Steinberg Cubase SuperVision, Steinberg SpectraLayers, Steinberg WaveLab, Toneboosters Spectrogram
Other: (not sure if they need a specific substitute)
Repair Assistant - AI functionality by iZotope
RX Connect - Plugin to send files from DAW to RX.
RX Monitor - Plugin acting as instrument in DAW/NLE that plays audio from RX through the driver being used by the host.
Selection Feathering
Spectral Editor - Integrates Spectral Repair, Spectrogram and other tools in Logic Pro.
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