Audio plugin for Vegas

steve-kauzlarich wrote on 4/9/2018, 5:40 PM

Does anybody know of a good audio plugin for Vegas? Specifically I'm looking for a plugin that will "learn" a sound and eliminate it from the Vegas timeline. I believe that Sound Fourge did this in the past, but SF isn't a Vegas plugin as far as I know. Magix's project "features" on their website is almost as much of a joke as their automated phones which hang up on the caller. 

Magix needs to post serious product spec sheets instead of marketing pictures with fluffy paragraphs about their products. 
Thanks,
Steve

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Musicvid wrote on 4/9/2018, 5:51 PM

I don't quite understand; does eliminate a "sound" mean a pitch, an instrument, a channel, a rhythm, a timbre, or what?

Wracking my brain here-- I've owned Sound Forge since the promotional XP version over fifteen years ago, and I'm drawing a blank-- if you are talking about noise reduction, calling it sound is frightfully confusing.

Please feel encouraged to direct your marketing complaints to Magix-- we are just your peers here.

steve-kauzlarich wrote on 4/9/2018, 9:45 PM

The sound would be a hum, hiss or another continuous annoying background noise that shouldn't be in the audio. I know Camtasia has this feature as well as another software that I used in the past. You simply select the noise during a quiet area on the track and the software uses it to cancel the sound during the entire track.

I first used Sound Forge around 1999 when it came bundled with something. That's what led us to Vegas 2 I believe.

john_dennis wrote on 4/9/2018, 10:09 PM

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/sound-forge-for-audio-noise-reduction-best-way--110061/

john_dennis wrote on 4/9/2018, 10:12 PM

I got Sound Forge bundled with CD Architect. I suspect it was before 1999.

steve-kauzlarich wrote on 4/9/2018, 10:20 PM

Yes - you are spot on John. It was CD Architect. I had four editors using Premier at the time and it was locking and crashing. I respected Sound Forge for its logical and straight forward UI, and of course its stability, and thought we should give Vegas a try. Been using it since.

Musicvid wrote on 4/10/2018, 7:07 AM

Thanks for clarifying your question, and glad you found the answer easily.

One of my Physics units involves a lab project called, "Is it sound or is it noise?" We go through a variety of oscilloscope waveforms, everyday sounds, and pseudo-random synthesized samples and identify patterns and variants.

There are a number of ways we commonly distinguish sound from noise, but the most empirical way is simply expressed, "Hiss is noise, hum is sound." Then we avoid the trap of whether "noise" is merely something that is unwanted and annoying -- when its state could be labeled the opposite ijn a different context.

Then we gather 20 or so students around a microphone and tell them to make all the noise their teachers ever told them never to make in school, while I record, except that whistling and screaming are disallowed. We tip off hallway monitors in advance. Then by filtering frequencies, waveforms, and even sinusoidal subsonic rhythms from the muck, we are able to conclude that students indeed do make sound, not noise -- to which they take an excess of delight in correcting their teachers over the next few days -- every time someone is called out for making "noise" in class. ☺️

rraud wrote on 4/10/2018, 8:47 AM

If the OP is seeking noise reduction and restoration Plug-ins and apps, the just released Sound Forge Pro 12 includes the NR-2 noise reduction suite and iZotope's RX elements. The SF Pro 12 Suite edition includes SpectraLayers Pro 5 as well.

steve-kauzlarich wrote on 4/10/2018, 9:20 AM

Rraud: Does the SF Pro 12 Suite plug into the Vegas timeline?

Thanks, Steve

Musicvid wrote on 4/10/2018, 10:59 AM

Sound Forge is a standalone application that can be "called" from certain Vegas Menu commands.

It is not a Plugin.

Peter_P wrote on 4/10/2018, 11:27 AM

It is not a Plugin.

... but the Noise Reduction FX can even be used from SF Pro 10 in the timeline of Vp 15

Musicvid wrote on 4/10/2018, 1:29 PM

Good point, Peter.

steve-kauzlarich wrote on 4/10/2018, 4:54 PM

Does the NR pin-point a specific sound or frequency, or is it generic NR?

Marco. wrote on 4/10/2018, 5:44 PM

It affects the sound you feed for analyze, not a specific frequency.