Hi folks,
A bit of a basic question I know, but I have been looking at Spectral Layers Elements for £75.00.
Is this a standalone or does one require Cubase to be able to access it, please?
Many thanks,
Paul
It’s a standalone application.
Thanks so much. I’m going to trial it now. Paul
Hi again,
Is there an option to trial Spectral Layers Elements (£75.00), please? Or is it only the Pro version you are able to trial? The latter is how it appears to me.
Much appreciated,
Paul
Apparently there’s only a Pro trial of SL12, but you can compare features here.
That is very helpful, thanks. Is the Elements price of £75.00 a sale price or the regular price, might you know please? Thanks a lot, Paul
@monsterjazzlicks That’s the regular price. Be aware, it’s possible that SpectraLayers 13 releases in July. If you now purchase version 12 you’ll probably not be inside the grace period, where you can upgrade for free to version 13. Maybe utilize the trial version over the next couple of weeks.
Many thanks, I have now successfully installed the trial SL of Pro. I think I’m granted a two month time-bomb? Cheers, Paul
The SpectraLayers Pro 12 trial is for 30 days.
Why time-bomb?
It really depends upon what user wants to do with SLP. Unmix music? Hmmm, removing vocals is pretty good. Cleaning up solo tracks gonna be great with SLP.
Dialog post? SLP is a god-send, incredible tool. Unmix Noisy Speech saves months of work. And so much more, I like to phase-align mics in SLP as well.
Scientific audio? Plenty of complaints about SLP on this forum about signal generation, optimization of software, etc.
If you just want to sit back and run modules, you may not get as much joy as promised in video tutorials. If you get busy with selections of transforms and learning to read the spectrogram (in the event users don’t already know how to read spectrogram), that manual work will pay off. Time-consuming? Yes.
“Time-bomb” = you can access the software for a limited amount of time (if that’s what you’re asking).
Yes, pretty much as you describe, thanks.
It should be good for transcribing Jazz music if I’m able to isolate instruments to even a negligible degree. Something is much better than nothing. For instance, transcribing a drummer’s Hi Hats - if mixed quietly.
I think you misunderstand me where I wrote: “Cleaning up solo tracks”
I’m talking about a multitrack recording where you already have the stems…likely recorded by you, but doesn’t have to be…I essentially mean perform noise reduction on those multi-tracked parts.
If you want to isolate a single instruments from a stereo mixdown, good luck with that…keys, guitars, orchestral instruments, etc…expect plenty of twiddling thumbs waiting for unmix modules…that is my experience, anyway 
It is indeed a good tool for helping with transcription, however bear in mind that the nature of the source material will dictate the quality of the sound separation. If you have a good quality recording of, let’s say, a relatively recent studio mix ripped from CD, then I’d say yes, you should be able to isolate the hi-hat where the hi-hat is not masked by other cymbals or the snare.
I already have ‘Moises’; it’s pretty OK but I was looking for something a bit deeper to apply after extracting these stems.
Secondly, I am looking into acquiring and noodling with stems of the following nature: "Multitrack Stems exist to every Madonna album. There were leaked initially the instrumentals and acapellas albums in this millennium."
Lastly, have you ever heard of ‘vaporwave’ mixes before?
Yes, it’s hit and miss I totally agree. I’m mostly into Miles Davis, Weather Report, Return To Forever and alike. I made my very first transcription when I was only 13, and have since worked my way up all the way to big-band now - albeit it took MANY years and MANY mistakes! 
You may have noticed I purchased scoring tool Dorico 6 Pro this week. I have been using Sibelius 8.6 since 2016.
I trialled Dorico 6 this past winter…I definitely enjoyed it…quite the learning curve
Apparently it’s takes about 12 months and then you start getting really into it (Dorico).
Incidentally, the Sibelius Avid Forum has been down for about 3 months now (“essential maintenance work”)?
I’ve had a similar issue with my main DAW I’ve used the past 20 years…forum issues since the past 6 mos
Dorico is great, IMO…but hasn’t been “great” enough for me to spend nearly 600 currency units on Pro…and I need Cubase, so I gonna try the score editor before deciding on purchase of Dorico Pro
I felt like Dorico 6 Pro was easier becoming fairly easy within a couple months of use