Waves Audio has released Clarity Vx and Clarity Vx Pro noise reduction plug-ins for vocal and voice recordings, powered by Waves’ AI audio technology, Waves Neural Networks.

The Clarity plug-ins isolate vocals from ambience and background noise, removing the noise in real time without artefacts. Clarity Vx and Clarity Vx Pro share the same Neural Networks audio engine, the same audio fidelity, and the same real-time workflow. Clarity Vx is the simpler of the two, made for music producers, mixers and musicians, as well as podcast and video creators; while Clarity Vx Pro is more advanced, adding ‘surgical’ features designed primarily for postproduction engineers.

Clarity Vx includes two ‘catch-all’ Neural Networks – Broad 1 is better at preserving both the main and secondary voices, when more than one voice is present in the recording, while Broad 2 is recommended for severe noises. It is also better at separating the main voice from secondary background voices, when more than one voice is present in the recording.

The more advanced Clarity Vx Pro shares the same real-time workflow and Neural Network audio engine as Clarity Vx but adds advanced features for surgical noise removal, including Ambience Keeping to remove the voice and keep just the background ambience (for ADR tasks); four separate bands surgical multiband controls; Reflections control; and more. While the main control takes care of most of the heavy lifting thanks to the Neural Networks engine, the deeper controls allow post-production engineers to further finesse voice repair tasks.

Clarity Vx features:

• Extremely high-fidelity noise reduction for vocals.
• Powered by Waves Neural Networks technology.
• Cleans vocals with one knob.
• Mono/Stereo width control.
• Simple to use with no learning curve.
• Aimed at musicians, producers, mix engineers and content creators.
• Included in Waves Mercury bundle.

Clarity Vx Pro features:

• Real-time workflow with full automation.
• Performs all noise reduction tasks in a single pass.
• Edit and mix dialogue in context with video and audio tracks playing.
• Ambience Keeping feature.
• Controls including four bands and VCA control.
• Reflections control.
• Neural Network ambience gate.
• Mono/Stereo width control.
• Includes Clarity Vx.

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