Dear Steinberg: If indeed SpectraLayers 13 HAS improved, then please PROVE this by creating demos that we can all watch on You Tube. Not just the short 5 minute demos for selected features. But real tutorials that show us, in depth, how a feature has been improved.
I have SpectraLayers 12, which I updated to without question when it became available last year. After one year, I have to say, I don’t use it at all. I do all my stem separation in Logic Pro, because IT WORKS, and SP12 does not work. Literally. I’m not exaggerating (I wish I was). Case in point, I recently used stem separation in a project. Project 1 had vocals, guitar, electric piano, bass, and saxophone and/or flute. Everything split into stems in Logic Pro perfectly. This didn’t work in SP12: even the sax did not split out as one would expect; only a few notes got extracted. But even the other instruments were very spotty, with some sections missing. Sure, I could spend hours cutting a pasting from one voce to another, but why?
(I also tried creating an Unmix Flute module by following the instructions within SP12 — but it did not work either.)
For Sound Repair, I still use RX9 Advanced from Izotope. Personally, I hate the upgrade prices that Izotope wants: $600 to upgrade is ridiculous! Now, perhaps SP12 (and SP13) can do the same repairs as RX (?) But it is hard to know whether this is true, because you can find many, many RX tutorials on You Tube; but almost nothing for SP.
Really, I am not a complainer normally, But I am simply asking: if SP13 is really an improvement, please make video demos of each feature and show me what has improved. And I mean, real tutorials, explaining how to do it.
Thanks for listening.