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Best Noise Reduction App?

I've got to clean up some poorly recorded tracks here at work. Any recommendations for a quality NR app on iOS? Doesn't even have to be AB compatible.

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  • edited February 2014

    This is one of those situations where it depends on the economic value of the sound to you.

    If it is seriously valuable, you should look at izotope's RX 3.

    If it isn't worth much, you can get by with anything with a gate and EQ.

  • izotope on ios? that would be nice, but I think that's just for desktop?

  • edited February 2014

    I have adobe audition at work but I really dislike the adaptive noise reduction. The artifacts are often worse than just keeping the original noise.

    Izotope looks great, but too expensive. Anyone found anything worthwhile on ios?

  • Don't think there is much of anything in iOS. Audacity is free and has a couple of good noise reduction tools. See what you can do with EQ first and then let the computer do it's thing.

  • edited February 2014

    Edit: started new thread

  • Just a heads up: A noise reduction tool similar to the one in Audacity is one of my planned apps in the AUFX series. Can't say when I actually will find the time for it, though :)

  • Pro-G, Pro-Q, and Pro-C

  • Wavepad has a few adjustable noise reduction algorithms.

  • Wavepad could be used, if it wasn't such a pain to get audio in and out of it :-(

    I can't believe they charge $9.99 for an audio app that does not support audio copy or open in ...

    Too bad as it seems to be the only app with noise reduction á la Audacity.

  • @j_liljedahl said:
    Just a heads up: A noise reduction tool similar to the one in Audacity is one of my planned apps in the AUFX series. Can't say when I actually will find the time for it, though :)

    Hi Jonatan any update on this audacity based noise removal app? I don't think there is anything useful i the iOS store ? Also there is only so much a Gate can do....however i think .. range knob would be useful for AUFX push noise gate ..: thereby helping me set a higher threshold ....

  • @hisdudeness said:

    @j_liljedahl said:
    Just a heads up: A noise reduction tool similar to the one in Audacity is one of my planned apps in the AUFX series. Can't say when I actually will find the time for it, though :)

    Hi Jonatan any update on this audacity based noise removal app? I don't think there is anything useful i the iOS store ? Also there is only so much a Gate can do....however i think .. range knob would be useful for AUFX push noise gate ..: thereby helping me set a higher threshold ....

    Ha, I actually forgot about this one. I have quite a long list of AUFX apps I'd like to make, but have then focussed on other bigger things (like AUM). Still hoping to expand the AUFX collection soon, as well as making AUv3 plugins of them.

  • @j_liljedahl said:

    @hisdudeness said:

    @j_liljedahl said:
    Just a heads up: A noise reduction tool similar to the one in Audacity is one of my planned apps in the AUFX series. Can't say when I actually will find the time for it, though :)

    Hi Jonatan any update on this audacity based noise removal app? I don't think there is anything useful i the iOS store ? Also there is only so much a Gate can do....however i think .. range knob would be useful for AUFX push noise gate ..: thereby helping me set a higher threshold ....

    Ha, I actually forgot about this one. I have quite a long list of AUFX apps I'd like to make, but have then focussed on other bigger things (like AUM). Still hoping to expand the AUFX collection soon, as well as making AUv3 plugins of them.

    Please (please!) do :)

  • I'd be scared using noise reduction on my tracks....I'd probably just get silence :D

  • @AndyPlankton said:
    I'd be scared using noise reduction on my tracks....I'd probably just get silence :D

    How very Zen. ;)

  • @j_liljedahl said:
    Just a heads up: A noise reduction tool similar to the one in Audacity is one of my planned apps in the AUFX series. Can't say when I actually will find the time for it, though :)

    As a fan of your apps, doing major work with them: Thank you.

  • Hokusai 2 - it does noise reduction by noise profiling (like Waves XNoise/ZNoise, Izotope RX or Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction), and sometimes its algorythm perform better than the mentioned examples.

  • P.S.: consistently better than Audacity, I must say...

  • edited August 2017

    I like Master Record best. I saved some noise gates as presets, always awesome and easy. I realize it's a gate, but it's still what I use.

  • @theconnactic said:
    Hokusai 2 - it does noise reduction by noise profiling (like Waves XNoise/ZNoise, Izotope RX or Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction), and sometimes its algorythm perform better than the mentioned examples.

    never heard of this one.. will check it out...

  • @hisdudeness said:

    @theconnactic said:
    Hokusai 2 - it does noise reduction by noise profiling (like Waves XNoise/ZNoise, Izotope RX or Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction), and sometimes its algorythm perform better than the mentioned examples.

    never heard of this one.. will check it out...

    Tried it ...Was a complete disaster...maybe it needs more resources which my iPhone 6 lacks...i don't know.... it changed my waveform shape and added all distortion....

  • @theconnactic said:
    Hokusai 2 - it does noise reduction by noise profiling (like Waves XNoise/ZNoise, Izotope RX or Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction), and sometimes its algorythm perform better than the mentioned examples.

    For this task I'll second here. Hokusai 2, at least with function/cost ratio in mind.

    I decided to get all the FabFilter tools and there are not many instances where I can't fix with those, what my knowledge allows me. If Not, it's simply to difficult of a task for me and I turn to specialists if it's that important.

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  • @hisdudeness said:

    @hisdudeness said:

    @theconnactic said:
    Hokusai 2 - it does noise reduction by noise profiling (like Waves XNoise/ZNoise, Izotope RX or Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction), and sometimes its algorythm perform better than the mentioned examples.

    never heard of this one.. will check it out...

    Tried it ...Was a complete disaster...maybe it needs more resources which my iPhone 6 lacks...i don't know.... it changed my waveform shape and added all distortion....

    Strange. Two things: first, you need to select an area (around 1sec of size) containing noise only, no notes, be sure it contains only the noise. Then select “Learn”. Now select the entire file and move the percentage fader to around 25% and press play to preview. 25% is usually enough, but dial more or less noise reduction while previewing until getting where you want. Hit “Apply”.

  • @Max23 said:
    Isotope rx is great
    The other suff is to simple and makes horrible artifacts,
    Ok to clean up dialogue but for music bah

    If you are talking about Hokusai, I strongly disagree. This video is me playing a very dynamical classical piece (some notes really quiet, while others played in Fortissimo) in a room subject to air conditioning and rain noise. Cleaned with Hokusai. See if you can detect any of the described noise. Also a fan of RX btw:

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  • Of course, in the end all them depend on the source material. RX has indeed plenty of advanced options to deal with problematic material that Hokusai obviously lacks, and Znoise has also good tricks in its sleeve as well (I love the “Smooth” setting with “notch” mode for acoustic material). But Hokusai can really do the trick, specially if you can break the track or region to smaller pieces, isolate the noise print for each piece, and dial the correct percentage. Cheers!

  • @theconnactic said:

    @hisdudeness said:

    @hisdudeness said:

    @theconnactic said:
    Hokusai 2 - it does noise reduction by noise profiling (like Waves XNoise/ZNoise, Izotope RX or Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction), and sometimes its algorythm perform better than the mentioned examples.

    never heard of this one.. will check it out...

    Tried it ...Was a complete disaster...maybe it needs more resources which my iPhone 6 lacks...i don't know.... it changed my waveform shape and added all distortion....

    Strange. Two things: first, you need to select an area (around 1sec of size) containing noise only, no notes, be sure it contains only the noise. Then select “Learn”. Now select the entire file and move the percentage fader to around 25% and press play to preview. 25% is usually enough, but dial more or less noise reduction while previewing until getting where you want. Hit “Apply”.

    Yes iam aware of process..same as audacity.... having a back and forth with developer to resolve issue.. as a workaround for now am adviced to convert track to mono.. and then proceed...

  • It would be cool if one of our favorite DAWs could integrate Hokusai's mojo into its own arsenal.

  • @hisdudeness said:

    Yes iam aware of process..same as audacity.... having a back and forth with developer to resolve issue.. as a workaround for now am adviced to convert track to mono.. and then proceed...

    Oh, I see. I always use it on mono audio files, so I never experienced any glitches. Good luck!

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