SpectraLayers Pro 12 is a professional-grade spectral audio editing and restoration software from Steinberg. It lets you view and manipulate audio in the frequency domain.

Review Of Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 12

(a spectrogram) rather than just as a waveform, enabling incredibly precise editing, restoration, stem-separation, sound design, mastering, or post-production. It’s designed for music producers, sound designers, post-production engineers, audio restoration specialists, voice-over and localization professionals, and anyone needing fine-grained control over audio content — whether working with music, dialogue, sound effects, or complex mixes.

Through Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 12, you can access, extract, and manipulate audio layers and do amazing things in a variety of areas, from audio repair and restoration to free-form audio design. The unparalleled selection tools developed over the years are now combined with new AI-based audio extraction and repair processes, making this the most important and powerful version of SpectraLayers yet.

Features of the Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 12

 Advanced voice/speech processing & restoration

For dialogue, voice-overs, podcasts, or any spoken word material, SpectraLayers Pro 12 brings upgraded tools:

• Voice Enhance Module (AI-powered) — to clean up, restore, or improve poor-quality voice recordings; reduce noise, artifacts, improve clarity, while preserving natural tone.

• DePlosive Module — automatically identifies and removes plosive sounds (like “p”, “b” bursts) in speech or sung vocals.

• Enhanced DeNoise, noise-reduction, and improved transcription module (with multi-language support) — useful for post, forensics, cleaning old recordings, restoring archival audio, etc.

• Flexible workflow & integration with DAWs

• Full standalone spectral editor, but also integrates

• Supports VST3 plug-ins, even allowing multiple plug-in GUIs to be displayed simultaneously within SpectraLayers — good for complex effects chains.

• Workflow enhancements: batch processing (process multiple files at once), volume-envelope editing on layers, improved selection tools (frequency/harmonics/transients), ability to cut/copy layers within projects, better undo/redo history, more efficient module chains, faster processing estimations, etc.

• High-quality processing capabilities: supports high sample rates and deep bit-depth/resolution (e.g. sample rates up to 384 kHz in Pro version) — useful for professional mastering, archival audio work, or high-resolution audio production.

• Wide range of use cases

SpectraLayers Pro 12 is versatile — it is useful for:

• Music production: remixing, stem-creation, isolating vocals/instruments/drums from full mixes for re-arrangement or remix.

• Post-production / Film / Broadcast: cleaning up dialogue, separating dialogue/music/effects, restoring old or noisy audio, localization, ADR / voice-over editing.

• Audio restoration / archival work/forensics: removing noise, artifacts, cleaning damaged recordings, restoring clarity, removing unwanted components (hiss, noise, plosives, crowd noise, etc.).

• Sound design / experimental audio: because you can manipulate individual frequency-layer components, create unusual textures, and transform sound in ways not possible with standard waveform editing.

System requirements:

• CPU: Dual-core minimum, 10th Gen Intel or Apple Silicon recommended.
• RAM: 8 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended.
• Hard disk space: 8 GB free for temporary files.
• Display: 1280 x 720 resolution.
• Graphics: DirectX 11 minimum (Windows), DirectX 12.1 with 6GB+ VRAM recommended (Windows GPU acceleration), Metal-capable (macOS).