Steinberg’s SpectraLayers 8 audio editor promises ‘AI processing with a human touch’

Steinberg have taken the wraps off version 8 of SpectraLayers, the company’s deep audio editing software. With its visual interface, SpectraLayers is designed to let you ‘see inside’ your sounds and carry out a variety of music production, post-production, sound design and audio restoration tasks.

Version 8 introduces a secondgeneration AI processing engine that enables the implementation of new processes and improvements to existing ones.

There’s AI-powered Reverb Reduction, too, which attenuates and reduces room resonances. Other new features include EQ and Ambience Match. EQ Match lets you make a selection on the spectral graph and apply the EQ profile across several layers, while Ambience Match lets you specify room tone or background textures on the spectrograph and apply the profile elsewhere.

Elsewhere, you can now select harmonics automatically based on a single frequency, there’s a Voice Denoiser that can clean up everything from spoken word recordings to sung vocals, and you now have interchannel copy/paste functionality.

There’s enhanced ARA 2 integration, too, so you can run multiple independent SpectraLayers projects within your compatible DAW (Cubase or Nuendo, for example).

SpectraLayers 8 is available in two versions: Pro (€299) and Elements (€80). PC/Mac.