

Technological developments in recent years - largely based around AI and machine learning - have meant that it’s now possible for software to identify certain elements of a track and mute them, or solo them, sometimes in real-time. Some techniques - like phase reversing the instrumental with the vocal version - made it possible, but you had to have access to an instrumental and the results varied from track to track. Up until recently, it was near impossible to extract a vocal, for example, from a mixed track. Stems are the name given to individual parts of a song that make up the complete track, like drums, bassline, vocals, hi-hats, snare, synth pads, etc. Further improvements including customizable UI luminosity, a playback VU meter, rapid tool toggling, the ability to render a selected layer directly and much more.After being the holy grail for producers and DJs for decades, over the past few years, it’s become easier than ever to separate stems from a full, mixed down stereo track.VST 3 plug-in support on a per-layer basis, in both standalone and ARA modes.Improved ARA 2 layer management creates new layers in the ARA environment.Improved Playback tool and Transform tool now featuring a new Transform Selection mode.Repair processes including AI-powered Click repair and Hum reduction (Pro and Elements) as well as Clip repair and improved Healing (Pro only).Voice Denoiser to recognize and isolate the human voice and then attenuate everything but the voice for maximum intelligibility (Pro only).Pattern finder to select a target sound and then automatically locate and select every other similar sound in the spectrum (Pro only).Unmix components to deconstruct stems into tone, noise and transient component layers.Unmix tracks to stems to extract the different instruments to separate layers, such as vocals, piano, bass, drums, and more.New Artificial Intelligence algorithms that can sense discrete events in a sound field and isolate them on independent, colorful layers for processing.
