SpectraLayers 10

[teilo]

Instant upgrade @ $79 from Pro 9.

Now why can't iZotope get a clue? The RX Advanced upgrade prices are ludicrous, especially with how little you get between major versions.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

Is anyone else hoping that Izotope just stops being a company and gets absorbed into NI? I feel like that would be the most likely way for their ridiculous upgrade and licensing policies to stop. NI has never come across as onerous in that regard and hopefully could have a positive impact on Izotope.

Also, hope the mods can merge the thread from the Instruments forum with this one, as Spectralayers is a Host or an Effect, but not an Instrument in any traditional sense.

[musicproducerdee]

Is anyone else hoping that Izotope just stops being a company and gets absorbed into NI? I feel like that would be the most likely way for their ridiculous upgrade and licensing policies to stop. NI has never come across as onerous in that regard and hopefully could have a positive impact on Izotope.

Also, hope the mods can merge the thread from the Instruments forum with this one, as Spectralayers is a Host or an Effect, but not an Instrument in any traditional sense.

I used to love Native Instruments back in the day. They used to bring actual quality products. Those Kontakt instruments and those synths were great for that time. I remember when NI used to release stuff like Alicias Keys, Una Corda, Massive, etc. Those things had a life about them. Now it's just sad.

Same with iZotope. Every independent artist I'd see working, would use something from iZotope. At least Ozone for mastering. It's sad what they've become. These brands haven't done anything worth noticing in a long time, except for their merger, which I'm not a fan of either ways. They were all better off alone, as individual brands.

[noiseboyuk]

I'm just going with results. At the moment, Spectralayers appears to have leapfrogged RX. Waves too in some areas. Online services like descript or Adobe's speech enhance. If RX11 suddenly has them back in the game, hooray. But I'm not paying for these modest, often almost imperceptible gains.

Can anyone remember how long it is until Steinberg usually do their deep discounts? 9 months or so?

[Atlatnesiti]

Is anyone else hoping that Izotope just stops being a company and gets absorbed into NI?

Your wish is granted
https://blog.native-instruments.com/nat ... rand-news/

[PAK]

Can anyone remember how long it is until Steinberg usually do their deep discounts? 9 months or so?

It varies. They've got Spectralayers on a 1 year release schedule, so you'd expect about then.

However, they'll be aware this version of Spectralayers has improvements which are good enough to attract new users.. and they surely won't want to miss out on taking their money So I would reckon a 40% discount by Black Friday / Christmas is not unlikely.

They'll rarely go past 40% for their cyclical products - IE ones which are normally upgraded every year or two.

[noiseboyuk]

Thanks PAK.

[DrGonzo]

Just out of curiosity, what are you using Spectralayers for?

[musicproducerdee]

Just out of curiosity, what are you using Spectralayers for?

For me, it would help in extracting stems out of a full song. It can separate instruments/vocals and provide you with individual tracks. Pretty good at it too. It can also extract chords/notes from a song and provide a midi for the same. All these are pretty handy when I want to make a remix or am trying to study the chords (songwriting) of a song. But it goes way deeper than this. This is barely scratching the surface. I think most people use it for repair & restoration (noise reduction, de-reverb etc etc).

PS: It's ARA compatible too.

[neverbefore]

Just out of curiosity, what are you using Spectralayers for?

For me, it would help in extracting stems out of a full song. It can separate instruments/vocals and provide you with individual tracks. Pretty good at it too. It can also extract chords/notes from a song and provide a midi for the same. All these are pretty handy when I want to make a remix or am trying to study the chords (songwriting) of a song. But it goes way deeper than this. This is barely scratching the surface. I think most people use it for repair & restoration (noise reduction, de-reverb etc etc).

PS: It's ARA compatible too.

I did not know it converted audio to midi - where is that function located?

[musicproducerdee]

Just out of curiosity, what are you using Spectralayers for?

For me, it would help in extracting stems out of a full song. It can separate instruments/vocals and provide you with individual tracks. Pretty good at it too. It can also extract chords/notes from a song and provide a midi for the same. All these are pretty handy when I want to make a remix or am trying to study the chords (songwriting) of a song. But it goes way deeper than this. This is barely scratching the surface. I think most people use it for repair & restoration (noise reduction, de-reverb etc etc).

PS: It's ARA compatible too.

I did not know it converted audio to midi - where is that function located?

Sorry, I mixed up Cubase's Chord Track with Spectralayers, I just realized. My bad. As far as I'm aware, Spectralayers doesn't convert audio to midi. I could be wrong though.

[mothra]

Weird, I wonder if Cubase users are going to get a Spectralayers One 10? Still showing 9 here, but I can install the full trial for 10.. We got bumped up from 8 to 9, was kinda hoping they would keep that going..

[Robin Lobel]

SpectraLayers One 10 will only come with Cubase 13 (and will require a Cubase 13 license).

[mothra]

SpectraLayers One 10 will only come with Cubase 13 (and will require a Cubase 13 license).

Ahh so it must be on its way soon then! They did say this last update was the EOL for Cubase 12.

[Robin Lobel]

The trial for SpectraLayers 10 is out: https://www.steinberg.net/spectralayers/trial/
As well as patch 1, which brings GPU acceleration for most AI processes.