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Waves has announced the release of WNS Noise Suppressor and LoAir, two new post production plug-ins for Windows and Mac.

The first in the new line of dedicated Waves Post Production tools, the WNS Waves Noise Suppressor is a real-time multiband processor for fast and effective broadband noise suppression on dialog tracks. Suitable for both indoor and location recordings with constant or modulating environment noise, WNS delivers superior sound quality with minimal artifacts.

Designed from the ground up especially for Post professionals, the workflow, approach, and interface of the WNS will be immediately familiar to Post engineers. WNS offers all the flexibility, portability, power, and precision of software, like true Pro Tools integration, multiple simultaneous instances, and full automation.

WNS Noise Suppressor features

• Zero latency means perfect picture sync.
• Designed especially for dialog.
• Low CPU usage.
• Multiple simultaneous instances.
• Significantly more affordable than hardware.
• User-definable frequency range selection.
• Up to 24bit, 192kHz resolution.
• Supports TDM, RTAS, Audio Suite, VST, AU.
• PC and Mac compatible.

LoAir is a subharmonic synthesizer plug-in that delivers the earthshaking sound of hardware.

More than just a subharmonic generator, LoAir features adjustable frequency and low-pass filter controls to shape your ultra low-end. Plus, it’s the only subharmonic plug-in available which lets you process polyphonic content, as well as create an LFE track from stereo or 5.0 sources.

LoAir features

• Add weight, drama, and depth.
• Enhance existing subharmonics.
• Processes polyphonic source material.
• Full session recall, full automation.
• Mono, Stereo, 5.0-to-5.1, and 5.1-to-5.1 components.
• Up to 24bit, 192kHz resolution.
• Supports TDM, RTAS, Audio Suite, VST, AU.
• PC and Mac compatible.

WNS Waves Noise Suppressor is available to purchase in Native and TDM formats for respectively $2800 and $1820 USD. LoAir Native is $100 USD, TDM $130 USD. WNS Waves Noise Suppressor is available at no additional charge to Mercury V7 users. LoAir is available at no additional charge to users of Mercury V7 and 360° Surround Tools V7.

More information: Waves / WNS Noise Suppressor / LoAir

Christian Budde has releaed Noise Reduction, a VST plugin containing a spectral noise gate optimized build to remove unwanted noise.

The Noise Reduction plugin is based on a spectral gate to filter out unwanted noise in the frequency domain. The gate is based on the lightweight dynamic series and features a soft knee and customizable attack and release times.

Originally this plugin was planned for the KVR’09 developer contest, but in the end I missed the deadline by one day and thus I had to use another plugin for my entry.

Noise Reduction features

• Highly customisable spectral noise gate
• Continous and consistent characteristic
• Fully adjustable soft knee in dB (as margin below the threshold)
• Several exotic window functions available
• Low CPU usage
• Different FFT sizes
• Manual included
• Open source (as part of the Delphi ASIO & VST Project)

Noise Reduction is available to download as a freeware VST effect plug-in for Windows PC.

More information: Christian Budde / Noise Reduction

SoniqWare has released SG-1, a stereo spectral noise gate with parametric control over noise profile, spectral resolution control and graphical editor for Windows PC.

Parametric Control over Noise Profile: Capture the noise profile from your material and adjust it using the three bands parametric equalizer. Alternatively, create a noise profile from scratch using the bias, slope and eq controls.

Spectral Noise Gate Control: Tune the noise gate parameters, including the knee, the reduction amount, as well as the attack and release times. The spectral resolution can be adjusted in a continuous fashion, ranging from single band processing to very high spectral resolution.

Interactive Graphical Display: Visualize the stereo input and output signals spectral content, as well as the shape of the stereo noise profile. Besides, the noise profile parametric eq is controled using the display handles, and the corrected profile instantly appears on the display.

SG-1 Spectral Noise Gate features

• spectral noise gate / noise reduction
• capture noise profile from audio data
• noise profile parametric eq: bias, slope, one low-shelf and two bell filters
• design noise profile from scratch
• noise reduction control range: 0 to 48dB
• gate knee control range: from hard to soft knee
• attack control range: 1 to 100 ms
• release control range: 10 to 1000 ms
• spectral resolution control range: from single band to high spectral resolution
• graphical display: input, profile and output signal spectra
• graphical edition of noise profile parametric eq using colored handles
• L/R vu-meter with hold peak and clip readouts
• supported sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 & 192 kHz
• stereo operation
• load/save programs and banks, including noise profiles
• VST automation of all parameters
• silent controls
• use of SSE/SSE2 instructions

SoniqWare SG-1 is available as a VST effect plug-in for Windows PC for $199 USD/159 EUR.

Visit SoniqWare for more information.

Elevayta has released version 5.03 of Klean Boy, a tool that can be used to reduce broadband noise and hum from stereo digital recordings.

Klean Boy features

• Manual or fully Automatic high quality broadband noise and hum reduction from any stereo digital audio material.
• Floating point signal processing with Oversampling.
• Manual mode for use when a noise floor sample is available or preferred.
• Fully Automatic mode learns and adapts the noise floor in real time, extracting the noise floor even from the signal of interest.
• A choice of 4 noise reduction algorithms.
• Elevayta’s unique 7 band panning EQ.
• Full flexibility over key processing parameters enables easy optimization to suite material.
• Tools tips and context sensitive GUI.
• Full PDC Compensation (in compatible hosts).
• Instructions included.

Klean Boy has an introductory price of $29.95 USD (normal price is $39.95), and is available for Windows PC.

A 14 day trial version is available for download (full functionality, periodic blanking of audio output).

Visit Elevayta for more information.