> "Is this Sony's answer to RX?"

This is different and way beyond RX. It's not just for noise removal. I just got back from NAB this morning (took the red-eye) and one of the Sony guys demoed this to me yesterday and it was absolutely amazing. It's like a cross between RX, Melodyne, and Photoshop. It has the concept of layers like Photoshop and you can select sounds like individual notes and associated them with a layer and then turn the layer's on and off. Instead of removing the noise, you can actually select what you want to keep on one or more layers and then turn off the original layer which is just the noise that you don't want without affecting the original sounds.

You can also add VST plug-ins to the layers. So imagine extracting a guitar solo or vocal from a mix onto a layer and then applying FX to that layer which only affects the guitar or vocal in the mix! It's mind boggling.

This is very cool technology.

~jr