Why I'm hesitating to purchase

@uarte @Crotchety
To my knowledge, Steinberg is using a custom version of Demucs. You can find the code for Demucs here:
GitHub - facebookresearch/demucs: Code for the paper Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation or here GitHub - adefossez/demucs: Code for the paper Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation

It supports CUDA, or ROCm (AMD) or CPU but as I read it certain dependencies like Pytorch only supports ROCm on Linux (not Windows or MAC) and on MAC it only supports CPU. You can see this here if you select the operating system: https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/

So, when something in the dependencies gets updated, it might break compatibility with AMD or MAC releases. And Steinberg has to work around that. This might be harder than you think.

my hesitations are multiple for upgrading from SL11 to 12

1_I’m nearing the end of a long project; I’m cautious to not overly disturb my workflow

2_Will SL12 run as well on my current computer as SL11 does? I’m not in position to upgrade computer at this time. Running a trial seems like a better solution for me here…so I await the trial to be offered

3_budget has other priorities right now

Getting SL12 has been a life-saver, it’s been one of those things that I couldn’t imagine life without now that I’ve tried it.

I didn’t pay much attention to it and then I seen a youtube video of a hip-hop artist using it to remove background noise from vocals and they had a sale in May so I grabbed it. It’s resolved a few irritating issues that would have been impossible otherwise, and I find it’s amazing for precise editing like where you want to smooth over a little imperfection between 1-3khz without destroying the audio.

I only spent a month with SL11, it was great - but the new modules are awesome.

My only gripe is that the ARA integration has a long ways to go (it can corrupt projects), but I just discovered that standalone mode can still show your track in beats/measures so I prefer to just use standalone and save my own versions.

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