IRCAM TS2 has this great feature where you can clip the spectrum to an amplitude range - eg you can select all parts / bins of the spectrum that are between -42 and -34 dB or whatever you want. I find this very handy for creative work.
Does Spectralayers have such a facility?
Yes, it’s called Unmix Levels: Unmix Levels
Thanks Robin, that seems like it can achieve what I get in TS2 however the interaction is not as good in SL which makes the proccess much longer - obviously I might be doing this the clumsiest way in my ignorance.
Where TS2 has an advantage is that the visible spectrum changes according the settings so one can easily see what is being selected. TS2 is like how we set thresholds in the Display Panel in SL - and an equivalent method in SL would be set the display in SL to show what you want then according to thresholds and then press Unmix to get three layers, one that is what you see in the spectral view, one is what is louder but yuou cant see, the other is softer and you also cant see it.
THis is a great workflow for Sound design, very quick
Oh I’d love if Unmix levels worked as you described here.
Actually Spectralayers unmix levels does exactly that(and more)!. The issue/problem is that the unmix levels feature is poorly optimized (assuming this has to do with a high processing power).
I have demonstrated and pointed out to the developer (@Robin_Lobel) in the Beta forum(it’s a closed off section of this forum that only Beta testers have access to) that the unmix levels feature is poorly optimized and I clearly demonstrated(in the Beta forum)(the forum where Beta testers test things to find bugs and errors to report) that the unmix levels is either poorly optimized or simply does not work. I clearly demonstrated that if you load
into Spectralayers with
So I believe the problem/issue is that unmix levels is demanding on cpu (and I can understand that because it is extremely intensive on cpu, especially when there’s overlapping involved at that high resolution) and needs optimization work done to it (especially on the average power Horizontal Average part).
TS2 looks like a cool thing
I’m using Unmix Levels quite a lot right now…
I never preview, tho
I have a workflow which is working great tho and Unmix Levels is parts of carrying out NR on the on-location dialogue I’m working on
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