I bought Spectralayers within the last 6 months primarily for stem separation. I feel a bit raw that Steinberg obviously had it in the pipeline to include Native Stem Separation in Cubase 15 but sold the feature hard in Spectralayers. This doesn’t reward people who are heavy/loyal Steinberg users, Cubase/Dorico in my case (for years).
Since stem separation is a major feature, probably the major feature in reality, in Cubase 15, I think Steinberg should at least offer a Cubase 15 discount to people who put their hard-earned cash into Spectralayers - which by the way is really good but also kinda buggy.
The stem separation in Cubase 15 is good (and fast) but still basic – you can separate vocals, drums and bass only. If you have SpectraLayers 12, there is nothing to be gained if the only feature in Cubase 15 that you’re interested in is stem separation, so you’re not missing out on anything.
No harm asking for a discount I suppose … but I personally can’t see how that could be justified. In any case, there are always other offers – wait until around August next year and you’ll probably see Cubase 15 discounted anyway.
Yeah I think the only thing to be gained is that if the Native Stem Separator is good and fast and well-integrated into Cubase maybe it will alleviate some of the issues that make Spectralayers buggy at times + huge file sizes, loading times etc. The limited instruments seperation is a good point.
Spectralayers is way more than a stem separator. You can delve much deeper. Why on earth would you get a discount just because you only wanted a complicated program for one if it’s functions?
Within Spectralayers Pro, I can demix 6-7 unrelated families of instruments/vocals AND demix a drum kit into bd/sn/hh etc AND tweak for any isolated artifacts.
Cubase 15 has….well…basic spleeter “ split 4 things only” stuff. You can’t do any of the more involved SL routines……on purpose.
I don’t think you’ve got s very good handle on the power of that Spectralayers Pro that you purchased.