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12 M PS E . O R G these are excellent, and at the top of their class for these sorts of noise-reduction tasks, and though there are other options from other vendors for these types of processors, one would have a hard time arguing there were better options available in the present marketplace. Supertone's CLEAR current pricing: $55 USD Supertone's CLEAR was one of the first "machine language learning" noise-reduction tools which made its way into the marketplace—as a real-time plugin (in AAX/VST/AU formats). It uses a somewhat similar type of interface as Hush Audios' Hush Pro and Acon's Extract:Dialogue 2 processors. CLEAR's somewhat simple controls allow for a great amount of latitude of work—as CLEAR presents the end user with three distinct sound channels, Voice, Reverb, and "Ambience," all of which are dynamically controllable on an individual basis, and one can solo or mute or invert any of the channel outputs. The machine language assisted analysis is very good, and significant changes can be heard quickly. CLEAR has thresholds for how much division is imposed upon each sound group is easily manipulated and quick adjustments are possible in real-time automated settings. There is also the ability to use the plugin as an AAX AudioSuite process to create new clips on demand. One feature of CLEAR which I rely on very regularly is the ability to recover production effects by fully removing dialogue from a clip, which can be very helpful for M&E preparation. Supertone's CLEAR entered the market dramatically, and is both a very great value, and a very sophisticated low- cost tool for dialogue and effects editors' work. Hush Audio's Hush Pro current pricing: $249 USD Hush Audio's Hush Pro is considered one of the best (sonically speaking) machine learning enhanced software tools that is available. Its quality is very good, and its price reflects that distinction. It is more limited as a tool as it is only available as an AAX AudioSuite process, so it demands that new audio must be created with its process output. Hush Pro has two distinct modes of operation in which you can choose to process the source audio clip "in-place" using the Hush Pro user interface to adjust relative levels (the "mix" mode), or the Hush Pro "split" mode, which splits the source audio into three new clips which include Voice, Reverb, and Noise stems. In this mode, there is no adjustment controls present, as those are expected to be rebalanced from the newly generated clips. At the time of Hush Pro's introduction, this split feature was somewhat unique, but since then, some other competing processors have incorporated that functionality. One limitation of the Hush Pro version software is that it requires a "M-series" T EC H CO R N E R