I am looking more and more at SpectraLayers, just downloaded the 30 day trial yesterday to play around with it. Izotope also raised a lot of money, it’s really a (probably) great american start-up willing to eat the world, but the more money you raise, the more aggressive you need to be, product / pricing / growth… many people will not care about the company profile when choosing to buy a software, but I do. I also think it’s known that Izotope plugins are very CPU greedy, I myself just experienced it by putting roughly around 8 or maybe 10 (De-noise, De-Mouth, De-click, De-plosive…) instances on various track of my podcast, including a De-reverb as my guest was recorded through a Zoom call (which I think is the worse plugin in terms of CPU I think), and it was hell… I had to increase dramatically my buffer size to be able to playback anything. I read plenty of forums comments and I get that RX is easy, very well known and marketed, you trust a AI based back box, all tailored for very specific audio repair tasks. I’m currently in the middle of this very topic, RX or SpectraLayers? and use them, and when it can be done, abuse them…) although i have always in the back of my head, all the rules. Spectralayers pro that is more my thing, or completely my thing… (completely, there are always wishes, but pro 7 has given me more control, in another thread i already said, i am not a cleaner. not that it is bad tool, on the contrary i think. don’t have advanced, nor will i ever own it. it seems to have more AI possibilities, i don’t know if the results are better. (and have also the free version, because of a plugin i wanted…). Rx elements, this is the first time it is for free, 7. VST Plugins, Synth Presets, Effects, Virtual Instruments, Music

There are some great upgrade/crossgrade offers on izotope stuff at the moment…check out plugin boutique…you can even get RX elements for free I’m using RX7 advanced which I believe has extra cleanup features than elements. I have both - RX7 is much more capable at audio repair … the results are better and on the whole the workflow is faster.

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