I just tried my best and spend a lot of time to get this right and even bought a new expensive laptop to get this right so yes, if it still not works normally than that can be disappointing. But maybe you can tell me (and the other people who have the same question): Do you have Spectralayers 12 Pro and is it working well on your computer? If yes, what specs does your computer has? That could be a big help🙂
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I have the 2cd fastest M4 Mac Mini Pro available. So not sure how much faster I’m supposed to get to run 1 application.
I’m still getting better results on the built in Logic for Unmixing. And it’s literally 5 times fasters.
So unless this is fixed, another customer lost. The only thing that Logic hasn’t caught up to yet is the drum unmix, and I’m guessing that’s coming up with the next update.
So I AM complaining. Not sorry. The mac version isn’t fixed 2 months after purchase. I will concede that it’s probably not a big deal for most people, but for people who are working studio owners and my clients are paying money, it is.
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Yes, I have SL Pro 12 and it’s working well (stable) but you can’t use my specs, as I am on macOS. SL is very slow on macOS. My guess is that your example with a 3 minutes song on the Mac would take 10-20 minutes.
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Ryzen 7900x with 64 Gb and RTX 3050 8Gb, Win11 IoT Enterprise LTSC here, SL12 working very stable here
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Thanks:)
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thanks. I guess there will come new updates and probably those are gonna work faster
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Hi illynoise,
I’m also a Mac user; Macbook Air, 15" M4, and use Logic Pro for stem separation.
For drum separation I use Wavemachine ReStem.
For pop and rock this works very well.
I’m currently working on two productions; soloist, choir and orchestra, a vinyl from 1975 and a PCM 14-bit from 1987.
I use Logic and ReStem for much of this work.
I do all the cleaning in SpectraLayers 12. I was particularly pleased with the new Unmix Soundtrack feature…
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ReStem is by far the best drum unmixer i’ve used!
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this is not what I mean. the cliche I used is an old one
BEFORE purchase hardware> interrogate this forum and research what hardware is working well for current users. It is perhaps much less effective to purchase hardware and then attempt to run software on it. In previous years, I have about 20 years of audio editing/ recording and post on laptops and always, always ALWAYS had limitations. I switched to desktop in 2018 and my goodness the limitations were all but removed. Seven years later and still going very well.
my hardware is from late 2018, so that’s all I can speak about (details in my sig)…I’m happy with 12min unmix times for music using only CPU because my GPU is a 1050Ti passive cooled and is not suitable for unmixing in SLP.
I do not unmix music very much. I mainly run Unmix Noisy Speech which is pretty fast on my machine (always under 3min for a 5min excerpt, which is just fine for my needs).
I have been logging my SLP 11 and 12 experiences on this forum. As I have said in my other thread about Magic Wand, as of yesterday I have gone back to SLP 11.0.70 because SLP 12.0.20 has stopped running reliably on my set up since purchase of SLP12. My SLP12 trial was fantastic performance. Since I purchased SLP12, my experience has not been good. All kinds of hangs and slow/ sluggish performance when manually editing (I do A LOT of manual editing in the spectrogram). So, like you, I wonder what I can do with SL12…re-install? New hardware…sorry, I do not have time for that, I must continue to produce audio post and SLP11 let’s me work without troubleshooting or teething. I will say, I find magic wand works differently in SL11 than SL12…and SL12 Unmix Noisy Speech I confirm is better than SLP11 (except the LPF change to SLP12 UNS which I do not like).
Anyway, as we can see, some users here do have robust systems that are giving excellent SLP12 performance like @MrSoundman and @DosWasBest systems…neither of which is a laptop afaiaa
That’s a good advice, thanks!!
Depends on the laptop. My ageing Thinkpad (not my main DAW) has fast Xeon CPU, 64GB memory, 2TB NVME storage and Quadro P5000 with 16GB video RAM. Not as fast as my RTX 3080, but has 6GB more RAM and still achieves respectable results for AI GPU DSP. My laptop is absolutely suitable for ALL tasks a professional DAW requires, including apps like SL.
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I am experiencing slowness with Spectralayers 12 too, just upgraded from v11.
An mp3 that is 3:52 long as an example, on a Win 10 (latest), AMD 5950X, 64GB RAM, configured to use NVidia 4070 for unmixing at High in v12 or Extreme in v11 settings:
Spectralayers 11: 1:46
Spectralayers 12: 3:36
What’s more, the quality in v11 is better! Gone backwards!!
Can you show some examples on lower quality?
It’s a long known fact, no further evidence is needed.
If it is a fact, then you can show me the evidence
I could, yes, but don’t have the time and the mood to repeat the obvious, sorry.
Have a nice day.
Then stop posting nonsense
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Yeah, I dread some of the possible outcomes of this path, if this is indeed the case (it seems so to me).
Contrary to you, nothing beats SL for spectral editing, by far. So I just hope and pray that this side of it is not forgotten to give room to this unmixing frenzy of late.
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Agree, SL12 seems to have taken a step backwards where speed is concerned. On the same PC, SL12 is much slower than SL11 for Unmix Song, for example. Same settings but no longer successfully uses the GPU.
SL is much more than a stem extractor, this moaning about it it’s like who’s complaining a Ferrari because the back seats are uncomfy.
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