Does Live have anything for noise reduction

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Does Live have anything for noise reduction

Post by kevwestbeats » Wed Dec 26, 2012 12:08 am

I am using the standard version not the suite. I am looking through my Live devices and do not see anything out the box for noise reduction at all. Did I miss something? If not what are some decent plug ins for noise reduction?
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Re: Does Live have anything for noise reduction

Post by Eventful » Wed Dec 26, 2012 12:12 am

You could google "Noise reducing vst" or something. Or noise gate, I suppose. Pod farm has a great built-in noise reduction, but it's $99. Soooo.

Also, if you're a ninja, you can use a compressor as a noise gate. .u.b
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Re: Does Live have anything for noise reduction

Post by kevwestbeats » Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:02 am

I never tried a gate or a compressor for this. I have the new IK channel strip and it has a gate on it I will give that a shot thanks
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Re: Does Live have anything for noise reduction

Post by GUY SMILEY » Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:42 am

no, basically.
try these third party (inexpensive) options :
http://www.voxengo.com/product/redunoise/
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Re: Does Live have anything for noise reduction

Post by witteredink » Wed Dec 26, 2012 12:06 pm

If the noise is really constant, like an AC hum:

Track 1: your audio with noise
Track 2: a clip with only noise, add a utility and reverse the phase
Send both tracks to the same track, e.g. master, and the noise from track 2 should be subtracted from the audio.

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Re: Does Live have anything for noise reduction

Post by re:dream » Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:34 am

GUY SMILEY wrote:no, basically.
try these third party (inexpensive) options :
http://www.voxengo.com/product/redunoise/
http://www.clickrepair.net
hmm redunoise looks interesting. Can I run it with Wavelab? I am looking for something that I can use to clean samples prior to use in Ableton...

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Re: Does Live have anything for noise reduction

Post by crumhorn » Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:17 am

If the noise is in specific frequency band then you can try using the multiband dynamics effect That way you can limit the gating effect to just the relevant frequencies.
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Re: Does Live have anything for noise reduction

Post by doghouse » Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:54 pm

There is a gate in all versions of Live and the Multiband Dynamics in Suite can be used for downward expansion, another common noise reduction method.

Of course, the best noise reduction is done at the source :wink:

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