Bias SoundSoap Pro - Educational

SoundSoap Pro is an advanced noise reduction and audio restoration plug-in powerful enough for demanding audio professionals, yet easy enough for anyone to use. SoundSoap Pro's unique and comprehensive approach combines hum, rumble, click, crackle, and broadband noise reduction tools with a sophisticated noise gate, in a single intuitive user interface. Unlike other audio restoration tools, this streamlined, tab-based interface guides the user through the various tools in a way that yields the best results in the least amount of time. SoundSoap Pro works in practically any Audio Units, RTAS/AudioSuite, or VST host on Mac OS X and Windows XP or Windows Vista.

Hum & Rumble Removal For Low-Frequency Problems

Even the faintest hum or rumble can ruin an otherwise perfect instrumental solo or irreplaceable dialog performance. Need to remove 60Hz hum, 50Hz hum, anything in between, or anything a lot lower? This tool gives you complete control over Q (filter width), Depth, Frequency, and up to 9 Harmonics. And in case you don't trust your ears, we've included a handy Hum meter as your guide.

Click & Crackle Reduction Cleans Up Old Vinyl Or Tape

Ideal for serious vinyl noise, static-induced pops, cable connection crackles, or practically any brief and annoying transient, SoundSoap Pro's Click & Crackle tool delivers. A streamlined set of controls — Sensitivity and Threshold — provide instant, effective relief, while you monitor your work visually (via the spectrogram) and audibly (using the ABCD Compare and Noise Only options).

Broadband Removal For Noise With Components Over a Wide Range of Frequencies

The Broadband Noise Reduction tool is at once amazingly simple and powerful. Use the Learn Noise button to set the degree of reduction automatically — or fine-tune it yourself using the 12 Threshold and Reduction sliders. Attack and Release controls (plus tilt functions) further enhance the power at your command.

Make a Final Pass With SoundSoap Pro's Noise Gate

As SoundSoap Pro's last restoration stage, this fully integrated Noise Gate puts a final polish on your project. Threshold, Attack, and Release controls — accompanied by an impressively useful waveform display — let you easily eliminate whatever noise may still be present between the desired content. The display can even be frozen in time — so you can continue making adjustments at a desired location without stopping audio playback.

Global features

SoundSoap Pro's user interface is tab-based, with each tab containing tools dedicated to removing a particular noise type. Convenient "global" features include: A spectrogram with variable frequency ranges, A/B/C/D Snapshots for comparing results between different setups, Custom Presets for saving setups permanently, and Noise Only Mode for real-time monitoring of the noise being removed by all active tools.

 Feature Overview

• Compatible with most plug-in hosts from Adobe, BIAS, Cakewalk, Digidesign, Emagic, MOTU, Sonic Foundry and others
• Supports VST, RTAS & Audio Units plug-in formats
• Mac OS X & Windows XP/Vista compatible
• Unsurpassed combination of performance, speed, & control — all with minimal unwanted sonic artifacts
• Integrated approach offers four noise reduction & audio restoration tools in a single plug-in; interface suggests order of operations to achieve optimal results
• Total store/recall of all parameters
• ABCD Compare function offers instant comparison of up to four different settings
• Hum & Rumble tool effectively eliminates buzzing & hum from RFI, EMI & other sources; 20 - 500 Hz w/Q (Hum & Rumble), and up to 10 harmonics (Hum); also reduces low-frequency & subsonic rumble
• Click & Crackle tool is ideal for digital transfers of vinyl records; also a great problem solver for pops & other brief, transient problems
• Broadband provides deep, sonically transparent elimination or suppression of tape hiss, tire noise, wind, HVAC noise, fluorescent lighting noise & other continuous broadband problems; operates across 512 distinct audio bands (controlled by 12 Threshold & reduction sliders with grouping capability); also features attack, release, & tilt knobs for greater control
• Noise Gate effectively silences noise that falls between desired program material; also useful for creating a variety of extreme special effects
• Real-time spectrogram provides constant, global visual monitoring of spectral noise; color coding lets users discern problem areas & make required adjustments, while listening to & watching the immediate results
• "Noise Only" button allows the user to hear, on a global level, only what is being removed
• Bypass function bypasses processing either globally or for each tool
• Thumbnail view shows each tool's parameters with a minimum of screen real estate

Global Tools

• Spectrogram
• Gobal Presets
• Noise Only Mode
• Default View Checkbox
• Processing Bypass Buttons
• Automation (parameters automatable within compatible host applications)
• Numerical Value Entry

Hum & Rumble Tab

• Hum Frequency Slider
• Q (Bandwidth) Slider
• Depth Slider
• Harmonics Slider
• Harmonics Tilt Knob
• Hum Meter
• Rumble Slider

Click & Crackle Tab

• Sensitivity Slider
• Click Threshold Slider
• Crackle Threshold Slider
• Click Indicator

Broadband Tab

• Threshold/Reduction View Slider
• Threshold Sliders
• Reduction Sliders
• Threshold/Reduction Lock Buttons (Slider Grouping)
• Meters
• Learn Noise Button
• Attack Knob
• Release Knob
• Attack Tilt Knob
• Release Tilt Knob

Noise Gate Tab

• Attack Knob
• Release Knob
• Threshold Slider
• Reduction Depth Slider
• Visual Waveform Display
• Left, Right, & L+R Waveform Display Button

System Requirements

• Macintosh
  • G4, G5, or Intel-based Macintosh (>500MHz processor recommended)
  • Macintosh OS 10.3.9 (OS 10.4 recommended)
• Windows
  • Intel P3/P4, Athlon w/SSE Instructions (>800MHz processor recommended)
  • Windows XP Home/Professional or Windows Vista
• Both
  • Compatible RTAS/AudioSuite, Audio Units or VST host application
  • 128MB RAM minimum (256 MB recommended)
  • 20MB available disk space