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Overview
The Spectral Editor plug-in combines ARA technology with the award-winning DSP and selection-based editing workflows of the RX Audio Editor. It allows you to identify and reduce undesirable sounds in your tracks without leaving your DAW.
Getting Started with Spectral Editor in Logic Pro
Spectral Editor is only available in Logic Pro as an ARA 2.0 plug-in. You can add RX Spectral Editor (ARA) to your project using the following steps:
- When the Advanced Controls Panel is collapsed: click the Attenuate or Replace button to apply the associated processing to your selection.
- When the Advanced Controls Panel is expanded: click the Process button to process the selection using the currently selected Mode.
Processing selections longer than 10 seconds
Attenuate: Horizontal, Attenuate: 2D, and Replace mode do not support processing selections longer than 10 seconds. If your selection is longer than 10 seconds, the processing will automatically default to Attenuate: Vertical.
Playback is required to reflect changes in spectrogram
ARA plug-ins are updated when playback is started. If you trim or otherwise change a clip that was already loaded in Spectral Editor, the spectrogram will not be updated until you’ve stopped and restarted playback with the clip selected.
Troubleshooting
If you find that RX Spectral Editor (ARA) is missing from the plug-in selection menu, try the following:
- Ensure you are adding the RX Spectral Editor (ARA) plug-in to the first insert slot of an Audio track.
- Clear the AudioUnit Cache and rescan plug-ins:
- Logic Pro 10.5.1 – 10.6.2: Quit Logic Pro, open Finder, delete
~/Library/Caches/AudioUnitCache
, re-open Logic Pro to rescan plug-ins. - Logic 10.6.3 or higher: Go to the Logic Pro menu > Preferences… > Plug-in Manager… and select “Full Audio Unit Reset” at the bottom of the window to reset the cache and rescan plug-ins.
- Logic Pro 10.5.1 – 10.6.2: Quit Logic Pro, open Finder, delete
- See the ARA Requirements and Limitations section below for more information about working with Spectral Editor (ARA) in Logic Pro.
Controls
Once your clip is loaded in the spectrogram view of the Spectral Editor, you’ll have access to the following controls:
See the Interactive Tools chapter for more information about selection tools and modifiers.
Editing Copies of Clips
The Undo function in Spectral Editor will apply to all non-unique copies of a clip. If you wish to edit different copies of the same clip independently using Spectral editor, please bounce them first.
Undo History Warning
Undo history is cleared when a session is saved.
- Attenuate: Removes sounds by comparing the content inside of your selection to the content outside of your selection. It modifies dissimilar audio in your selection to be more similar to the surrounding audio. Attenuate does not re-synthesize any audio.
- Replace: Resynthesizes badly damaged sections (such as gaps) in tonal audio. It completely replaces the selected content with audio interpolated from the surrounding data.
- Horizontal: Signal to the left and right of the current selection will be used for interpolation.
- 2D: Signal above, below, to the left and to the right of the current selection will be used for interpolation.
- Vertical: Signal above and below the current selection will be used for interpolation.
TIP: Use the trackpad to navigate the spectrogram
Scroll with the trackpad vertically to zoom in and out, and horizontally to scroll forward/backward in time.
Working with Comp Takes in Logic Pro
Spectral Editor supports comp takes in Logic. To process comp takes, the individual takes that make up the comp must be selected and processed.
The Logic comp region at the top will not appear in the spectrogram if selected. Choose the individual takes and toggle playback to work on comps in Spectral Editor.
ARA Requirements and Limitations
- Spectral Editor (ARA) must be the first plug-in on a track.
- Spectral Editor (ARA) cannot be added to a software instrument track or bus.
- Spectral Editor (ARA) is not supported by Selection Based Processing.
- Host presets are not supported by Spectral Editor (ARA).
- Automation is not supported by Spectral Editor (ARA).
- Playback must be started to gather audio data. After editing, playback must be stopped and started again to update data.
- Spectral Editor (ARA) cannot process Apple Loops, compressed audio, flex audio, or reversed regions. These regions can be bounced in place in order to be processed by Spectral Editor (ARA).
- Spectral Editor (ARA) will output silence for stereo files on mono tracks.
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