Sony SpectraLayers Pro 3 Upgrade - Advanced Audio Spectrum Editor, Download

Upgrade to SpectraLayers Pro 3 from SpectraLayers Pro

What's New in SpectraLayers Pro 3
SpectraLayers Pro 3 uses the core concepts of its predecessor as the foundation for a reimagined experience in audio spectrum editing. The new features rundown provides a multitude of discussion points, but the way they all work together will leave you speechless.

Layers Panel Redesign
The redesigned Layers Panel in SpectraLayers Pro 3 reflects the extent to which this application has been upgraded to provide significantly improved editing and workflow options. While the revised Selection Tools bring a new level of control to the editing process, the Layers Panel improves on keeping things organized, visible, and relevant.

Color-Coded Layers
In SpectraLayers Pro 3, every layer's spectral graph is tagged with its own unique color. Colors can be changed instantly at any time.

Drag to Re-Order
Layers can now be dragged into any order you like.

Floating Panels
The Layers, Channels, and History panels can now be anchored in the SpectraLayers Pro 3 workspace, or they can float over the workspace or on a secondary monitor.

Double-Click Fader Reset to 9dB
Added by popular demand.

Selection Tools Redesign
The Selection Tools panel has been significantly upgraded to provide more power and versatility than ever for carving precise, tailor-made selections out of the spectral graph.

New Waveform Display/Overview Bar
SpectraLayers Pro 3 has a new Waveform Display that updates instantly while you work. Important attributes of your spectral editing scenario are clearly shown here in waveform context, including cursor position, the current selection, color-coded project layer content, and all relative amplitudes. Above the timeline and always visible, the Overview Bar provides graphic, color-coded information about a wide variety of project status attributes including selection range, layer phase status, and more.

Displacement Pad
The 3D Displace feature in SpectraLayers Pro 3 provides spectacular, intricate visualizations of spectral audio data. In 3D Displace Mode, editors can explore the amplitude envelopes of any sound in isolation, and the relative amplitude power relationships that exist in projects with multiple audio channels or tracks.

SpectraLayers Pro 3 features a new way to access 3D Displace Mode: the Displacement Pad, a joystick-like control that provides instant access to the rich, detailed world of multidimensional audio spectrum data. Simply grab the control and slide it over the crosshairs to get the view you want, and double-click to return to the standard view. The Displacement Pad is always active and available, which means that you can access 3D visualizations without losing focus on your editing tools. The new SpectraLayers Pro 3 color scheme makes the 3D Displacement feature even more useful, as every layer can now be assigned its own unique color on the spectral graph.

Audio Scrubbing
Use the cursor to scrub audio in both directions.

Faster Processing
Engine performance is upgraded yet again for SpectraLayers Pro 3. The new logic and comprehensive CPU support translates into pure speed and silky smooth program response.

24-Bit/192 kHz Performance
Now available in SpectraLayers Pro 3.

Preferences Panel
The new Preferences panel makes SpectraLayers Pro 3 configuration and personalization easy.

Device
Select your audio device, route your hardware I/O, set your buffer size, and map input and output channels to conform to a wide variety of surround-sound scenarios; a smart remapping feature is available to automatically make assignments.

Display
Customize your color scheme and choose your default scales here.

Paths
Set your work paths, logging, and history/recovery options here.

Keyboard
Create your keyboard command profile here; more than 100 commands are available for customization.

Hardware Support
Including touch, trackpad, pen, Retina/high-DPI displays, and automatic detection when used with convertible laptops.

Surround Support
Up to eight channels of surround sound support.

SpectraLayers Pro 3 Features
A summary overview of the SpectraLayers Pro 3 feature set reflects the emergence of an audio-editing application that has truly arrived. The third edition provides a convergence of utility, usability, and performance factors that has been highly anticipated by current users and that will prove to be a game-changing experience for the newly initiated.

Three step audio extraction for some quick creative deconstruction.

Selection Tools
The Selection tools in SpectraLayers Pro 3 have been revised to provide more power and versatility than ever for carving precise, tailor-made selections out of the spectral graph.

The Selection Tool offers four options: Rectangular, Elliptical, Time Range, and Frequency Range. Left-click and drag to create a Rectangular, Elliptical, or Time Range selection of any size. To make a Frequency Range selection, click and drag over a frequency range of any height; releasing the mouse button will automatically expand the selection to cover the entire width of the spectral graph. Holding down the Shift key while you work allows you to create selections with any number of non-contiguous areas. Full-spectrum time range selections can also be made with the Time Cursor tool; simply hold down the Shift key and click-drag to create a selection.

Layers Panel
The redesigned Layers Panel in SpectraLayers Pro 3 reflects the extent to which this application has been upgraded to provide significantly improved editing and workflow options. While the revised Selection Tools bring a new level of control to the editing process, the Layers Panel improves on keeping things organized, visible, and relevant.

New Waveform Display
The new Waveform Display shows selections, color-coded project layer content, relative amplitudes, and more.

Overview Bar
The Overview Bar provides graphic, color-coded information about selection range, layer program length and location, layer phase status, mute state, and marker/region positions.

Displacement Pad
Go multidimensional instantly with the Displacement Pad, a joystick control for changing the 3D view that features continuous access for a super-smooth 3D workflow.

Time and Pitch Manipulation
Sound can be freely transposed in SpectraLayers Pro 3 by using the Select, Move, and Scale tools.

Frequency Range Display Options
Toggle your view to display audio frequency ranges plotted on your choice of logarithmic scales. Options include the popular mel scale, Bark scale, ERB (Equivalent Rectangular Bandwidth), and MIDI-logarithmic.

Draw Frequencies and Noise
Frequencies and noise can be drawn directly into the Spectral Display in SpectraLayers Pro 3.

Noise Reduction Process
SpectraLayers Pro invites you to open an audio file, extract the elements you need, and leave the rest behind - it's a new way of thinking about noise reduction! In addition, noiseprint-based noise reduction using artistic noiseprint - a fresh new twist - is also available.

Retouch Tools
The Amplify, Clone, and Erase tools in SpectraLayers Pro 3 can be used to edit audio on any layer at any time. Access these options at any stage in the editing process to assist with critical repair and restore operations, creative sound design work, and fun experimentation. Tool behaviors can be modified in useful and interesting ways - use the controls located right above the spectral display to design your own brush tips.

Interoperability with Sound Forge Pro
Transfer audio data between SpectraLayers Pro 3 and Sound Forge Pro and experience the flexibility of working freely across the world's premiere waveform and spectral editing applications. Open a large file in Sound Forge Pro and transfer selections of any size to SpectraLayers Pro 3 for fast, precise editing. Then bring the result back to the source file in Sound Forge Pro - automatically and with sample-accurate precision. Send multiple files from Sound Forge Pro to SpectraLayers Pro 3 for deep layering, remixing, and sound design work, and then return your finished products back to Sound Forge Pro for further editing and finalization.

Pass markers and metadata freely between SpectraLayers Pro 3 and Sound Forge Pro. Place and edit markers in SpectraLayers Pro 3 and switch them on and off as needed to operate on a clear spectral graph. SpectraLayers Pro 3 automatically merges markers from incoming files to help keep your screen uncluttered.

Spectral Casting/Spectral Molding
Spectral Casting / Spectral Molding is a revolutionary, SpectraLayers Pro 3 exclusive feature. Now you can use the frequency spectrum of one layer as a mold or cast for carving an impression of its frequency signature directly into the spectrum of a second layer. The creative possibilities are limitless. Spectral Casting / Spectral Molding can be a far more elegant approach than simple ducking, and the enormous sound design capabilities of this feature are poised to take creative music and sound design to an unprecedented new level.

Please note: This item is for registered users of SpectraLayers Pro 2 who wish to upgrade to SpectraLayers Pro 3.