soundsoap help

[Ed Dooley]

Did you by any chance look in the BIAS site?
Ed

SoundSoap 2 can be used as an Audio Unit plug-in within Final Cut Pro, however you won’t see Sound Soap 2’s easy to use custom user interface because Final Cut Pro doesn’t support custom Graphical User Interfaces.

To use SoundSoap 2 in Final Cut Pro:

In the Browser window, double-click on the noisy file to open it in the Viewer window.
In the Viewer window, click the Filters tab.
In the Browser window, click the Effects tab, and in the Audio Filters section, open the “BIAS Inc.” submenu.
Drag the SoundSoap audio filter into the Filters section of the Viewer window.
Set the playhead in the Viewer window to a section in the file where there is just unwanted noise. (If it is a very short section, you may want to engage loop playback mode so that SoundSoap’s Learn Mode can repeat the very short section a number of times – until it has analyzed enough audio to create a noise profile).
In the Viewer window’s Audio Filter section, Set the Broadband pop-up menu to “On” and set the Learn Noise pop-up menu to “On”.
Start playback.
After the noise profile has been created and you hear the noise being reduced, switch the Learn Noise pop-up menu to “Off”.
Adjust the Reduction slider and the Noise Tuner slider to your desired settings.
In the Viewer window, click the Audio tab.
Use the drag hand tool to drag your cleaned clip into the Browser or directly into your Timeline.

[Rick Neely]

Hey Ed,

thanks for the instructions. Still having problems though. I re-installed soundsoap pro (they don’t offer just regular soundsoap as a trial) and followed your notes. The BIAS submenu isn’t appearing within my audio filter menu in the browser. Am I missing something? DO I need to enable something?

Rick

[John Pale]

If you cant get it to work, the noise reduction in Soundtrack Pro is very good (and operates similarly to Soundsoap) It integrates well with FCP.

[Schureman Lear]

I prefer the standalone Soundsoap to the plug in, for whatever its worth, although you end up having to export whatever chunk of audio you want to work on out of FCP and then re-import which is a pain. Good luck!

[Ed Dooley]

I also have the stand-alone, so I can’t help about the plug-in more than pointing you to other resources. Go to the BIAS site, that’s where I got what I did.
Ed