Obviously, if you're going to use this feature on a regular basis, it would be advisable to create a keyboard shortcut. Spectral View can also be activated only for selected objects, from the menu item Object / Object Colour/Name / Spectral Display alternatively, right-click on the object and, from the contextual menu, select Object Colour/Name / Spectral display. In the case of stereo audio files, this spectral view will be split into left and right sides, giving you the extra flexibility to edit out noises that are on just one side of the stereo image. All audio files will now be switched to Spectral View, with a smaller version of the original waveform also shown above each spectrogram. Depending on the size of your project, you may find initially that there is a slight delay while the objects are updated. When you've made your display choice, press OK to exit the View Options.
I find the default setting works well, as it lets you view the different frequencies based on colour, making it easier to spot unwanted artifacts. You have a choice between default, halve, high resolution, black and white, red or blue. Immediately below is a menu where you can choose how the resulting spectrogram is represented. It's possible to display all the audio within a Samplitude Pro X project in Spectral View: to turn Spectral View on or off globally, click the Spectral View toolbar icon, which is at the bottom of the VIP, or press 'Y', navigate to Design / View Options and tick the Spectral View box near the bottom right-hand corner. The underlying musical frequencies are then recalculated and rendered as a seamless edit. This is when Samplitude's Spectral Editing can be of great assistance, representing your audio on screen as a spectrogram and allowing you to pinpoint these offending short-duration noises visually, before selecting with a special mouse mode and removing them. When you're working with audio from a live performance, it's not uncommon to encounter unwanted noises such as the creaking of a piano seat, accentuated finger noise on a guitar fretboard, lip clicks, car horns, and headphone bleed from click tracks. An entire Samplitude Pro X project can be shown in Spectral View by clicking on the icon at the bottom.Īmong Samplitude Pro X's unique features is spectral editing in the main project window.