Possibly use it in an earlier version of sonar to get rid of hum and import cleaned up files into platinum. Probably not much help; just a thought.

rabeach
Possibly use it in an earlier version of sonar to get rid of hum and import cleaned up files into platinum. Probably not much help; just a thought.

I was thinking the same thing. I still have X2 installed which is what R-Mix first shipped with and I think the only version of Sonar it shipped with. In fact it was a major selling point for me back then. It was still kind of buggy in X2 as well but not like this.

Beepster

JCody
I just had it grind Platinum to a halt while using it on a project with midi. Wow the latency it created on the midi input was ridiculous.
 And R-Mix wasn't on the midi track but on an audio track that I was copying.

Cool (but really... not cool). Thanks for confirming. It's a really cool concept for a plug but darned if it isn't a finicky bastige.
 

robbyk
SoundSoap 3 (the old bias) is inexpensive and works quick and easy with no problems for me (8.53). I do a lot of work for a client who does on location podcasts (wind, hum, air conditioning, etc.) and I use it on noisy vocals from entry level mics / interfaces as well for room noise or pc hum.
 
SoundSoap 4 is out now.

Right on. I'll check it out. Thank you.

I recommend Soundsoap 4 too. 

Beepster, a tip when using Audition's noise reduction is that it is better to make multiple passes with gentle settings than one huge pass. If it sound "right" set at 50% reduction when i preview, i make two passes at 25% instead.

rabeach
Possibly use it in an earlier version of sonar to get rid of hum and import cleaned up files into platinum. Probably not much help; just a thought.

Hi Beepster...

I was just about to post this same idea... Get past all the warnings of opening a project in an earlier version of Sonar, do the noise reduction and export the result... Then import the track into the SPlat version...

I've searched for affordable (free is all I can afford) noise reduction tools and none have been very worthwhile... So I would avoid that chase and try the above as a workaround for now...

Keni

Damn... Soundsoap seems to have a lot of fans and good reviews. It's also 200 canucker bucks. :-/
 
Unfortunately that is too much (for now). How does it stack up against the Izotope offerings? Not sure which of Izo's tools does this stuff but I had been wanting Ozone for Mastering. I think Izo RX is the one that does more of the NR stuff.
 
Of course I should be researching this on my own but in the meantime some insights from my friends here would be helpful. Of course I need something that plays nicely with Sonar so you guys will likely provide much better advice than out in the wilds of the intertubes.
 
Cheers.

dubdisciple
Beepster, a tip when using Audition's noise reduction is that it is better to make multiple passes with gentle settings than one huge pass. If it sound "right" set at 50% reduction when i preview, i make two passes at 25% instead.

Cool tip and makes sense. Still don't think that will do what I need for this but it will go into the vault for later use.
 

Keni

rabeach
Possibly use it in an earlier version of sonar to get rid of hum and import cleaned up files into platinum. Probably not much help; just a thought.

Hi Beepster...

I was just about to post this same idea... Get past all the warnings of opening a project in an earlier version of Sonar, do the noise reduction and export the result... Then import the track into the SPlat version...

I've searched for affordable (free is all I can afford) noise reduction tools and none have been very worthwhile... So I would avoid that chase and try the above as a workaround for now...

Keni

It's expensive stuff but I guess considering how useful (and probably complicated to code) these types of tools are I guess people are willing to fork for it. I certainly would if there was cash around but you know how that goes. Probably lucky I even have the R-Mix option even if it is a screwaround to use.
 
Hope things have been looking up in Kennyland.

I haven't looked at audacity in a while - maybe some of their new noise removal features would do what you need? (The price is right): http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Noise_Reduction

Strange, I just messed about with R-Mix for a bit and with the exception of its rather massive latency hit, it seems pretty stable here in Platinum. Obviously this doesn't help you at all, but it might be worth investigating to see what else might be causing the behaviour, since from here it doesn't look like it's a fundamental incompatibility with Platinum per se...

Brando
I haven't looked at audacity in a while - maybe some of their new noise removal features would do what you need? (The price is right): http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Noise_Reduction

That seems to be the same feature I used before (it was about a year ago). However that linked to the following...
 
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Spectral_Selection
 
That, although I only scanned the page briefly, may be more suitable. I would of course prefer to stay within Sonar. Audacity is very cool and useful for a free tool but the fact it doesn't make real time adjustments is of course not great for a tweakhound. Still I'm curious to see what that feature does and I have Audacity on my laptop so I can tinker with it.
 
Cheers.
 

subtlearts
Strange, I just messed about with R-Mix for a bit and with the exception of its rather massive latency hit, it seems pretty stable here in Platinum. Obviously this doesn't help you at all, but it might be worth investigating to see what else might be causing the behaviour, since from here it doesn't look like it's a fundamental incompatibility with Platinum per se...

Yeah, I think it may be one of those lookahead tools. However the latency persisted even after I disabled it and the crash/corruption certainly isn't normal. It's not a huge project but has quite a few clips and multiple instances of TH2.
 
Now here's kind of the separation between gimmicky NR and nicer stuff. R-Mix actually worked BETTER in front of the sim on the dry signal. So obviously it has an algo designed to yank out very specific stuff that is inaudible without the high gain. With the "sample and yank" style NR that wouldn't work. Really curious exactly what is being removed with R-Mix (and other fancy programs). Interesting stuff.