ANTARES SOUNDSOAP REVIEW MAC OS
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ANTARES SOUNDSOAP REVIEW MAC

In essence, Track adjusts the amount of noise reduction being applied so that louder passages receive less processing and so exhibit fewer artifacts. This enables a new feature I discussed with Steve back in the BIAS days. The large dial at the right adjusts the amount of broadband noise attenuation, and next to it is a button labelled Track. The only controls are an on/off switch and the option to choose 50Hz or 60Hz to tackle UK or US mains frequencies. When you set the de-noising using the Learn button, the Tune and amount controls are set automatically, though you can adjust them further if you want to.ĭe-clicking is adjusted using a simple ‘more or less’ slider, Remove Rumble activates a low-cut filter and Remove Hum attempts to remove both the fundamental frequency of any mains hum and its main harmonics, using very sharp notch filters. To the left is a Noise Tuner dial, which can be used to manually adjust the noise-reduction spectrum to further reduce artifacts, and below this is a Preserve Voice button that helps optimise the process when working on dialogue rather than music. A slide switch turns the noise reduction on or off and also allows the noise-only signal to be monitored so you can check you’re not removing significant parts of the wanted audio. This displays the pre-wash signal spectrum on the left and the post-wash signal on the right, so you get some indication of what is being removed. Audio files are represented as waveforms, while video files play back their video content in the window as you tweak the audio settings.Ī circular ‘Wash’ window dominates the centre of the main panel, with the Learn Noise button directly below it.

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SoundSoap’s interface has had something of a makeover since I last used it, and in the new versions, a second window full of animated soap bubbles opens up as a space to drop your media files, which can be dragged in directly.

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A feature inherited from SoundSoap 3 is that media files processed on the Mac platform can be shared directly to Facebook, email, messaging, AirDrop and so on.

ANTARES SOUNDSOAP REVIEW MAC OS

SoundSoap 4 can run either stand-alone or as a 32-bit and 64-bit plug-in in Audio Unit, VST, AAX and RTAS plug-in formats, and is compatible both with Mac OS and Windows. Its original ‘clicks and crackle’ processing and mains hum filtering have also been retained.

What’s more, it has additional capabilities, so as well as being effective against steady-state nuisances such as circuit hiss, camera whine and air-conditioning noise, it can now be used to disguise clipped audio as well as to restore volume to low-level audio recordings. The SoundSoap ethos was always to offer a useful degree of background noise removal while retaining ease of use, and certainly this new version is very intuitive. SoundSoap was created and marketed by BIAS, but since that company’s demise, it has now been updated and refined by its original designer, Steve Berkley, through his new company Soundness. If your audio is soiled, SoundSoap 4 offers new tools to restore it to gleaming whiteness.

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