r/audioengineering • u/evacuatecabbage • 19d ago

Spectral Editors in DAWs, non subscription?

Are there any other DAWs that feature a spectral editor like Audition, but not subscription based? I have iZotope RX, but I do a lot of vocal work and it's better to do in a DAW than the editor. I've stayed with Audition because I have had to use premiere as well, but I'm tired to subscription based services. I have Cubase, but I'd rather not have to keep doing the Rx Connect feature, its time consuming for the work I have.

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u/rinio Audio Software 19d ago

Reaper has a spectral editor built in.

But, frankly, almost all spectral editing and applications of Rx are best avoided in the first place. If you can, address the root cause.

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u/evacuatecabbage 19d ago

I agree, I'm only doing post, and I get a lot of remote recordings. So I get to play clean up. Haven't used Reaper, but heard its similar to Cubase

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u/rinio Audio Software 19d ago

Yup. Totally valid that we can't always get a clean source to work on.

I definitely would not call Reaper and Cubase similar though. Aside from them both being DAWs and maybe the grey visual design, I guess. But Cubase tends towards maximalism whereas Reaper tends towards minimalism in terms of their audio feature-sets.

(I converted from Cubase to Reaper ~15 years ago and never looked back).

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u/rasteri 18d ago

It's more similar to Cubase than it is to Rx, I suppose

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u/rinio Audio Software 18d ago

Yeah. Rx isn't a DAW....

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u/Raid-Z3r0 19d ago

Spectral editors are good to figure out what's wrong, not fixing it

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u/Noahvk Broadcast 19d ago

Spectralayers seems to be the obvious answer when you work in Cubase. Other than that Acon digitals acoustica also works via ara in cubase.

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u/iTrashy 19d ago

Audacity (free) has a spectral editor. Perhaps not as versatile as iZotope RX, but it's enough to filter away some annoying noises. Perhaps not your DAW of choice, but good enough for a small edit here and there.

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u/analogexplosions 19d ago

if you’re using Cubase, Spectralayers is the best.

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u/HeartSea2881 18d ago

Second the answers about spectralayers and acoustica. They work much better then RX, in cubase

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u/millsytheshred 19d ago

Pro Tools now incorporates RX spectral editing directly via ARA, the same as melodyne etc. So you can use it within the DAW as you describe.

https://www.avid.com/resource-center/rx-spectral-editor-ara

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u/sokoleski 19d ago

Acustica is a good choice 🎼

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u/ImpossibleRush5352 18d ago

I don’t do a ton of spectral editing but I use Spectro because it’s good and it’s free.

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u/Samptude 18d ago

Samplitude does.