Anyone know of a plugin to remove noise?

I haven’t had time to mess with it in the past few days. But I will.

@lucianodato I just saw the demonstration of your plugin on youtube with the webcam. Now that is super impressive man! I heard zero artifacts and he had the noise reduction cranked up to about 50%. For those you have not seen it, check it out. https://github.com/lucianodato/noise-repellent

Thank you! I’ve been very careful to include a good way to treat those kind of noises. With recordings that have an SNR nearing -10 db RMS it will work with low amount of artifacts. Specially with speech.

Looking forward to the 6.0 release with this built in.

It’s being a long time since I posted anything here. I’ll try to do my best to re-write noise-repellent as close as the other Ardour effects to be included in next release. I can’t promise anything but I suppose that It won’t take a long time. Maybe one or two weekends.

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Thanks for your continued effort on this. That’s very much appreciated!

I don’t think a rewite as a-* plugin is what @paul had in mind. I understood that the idea was to integrate it in the work-flow: select region or range -> right-click -> Learn Noise (faster than realtime, direct data access), and allow for offline processing.

This could be done via an LV2 extension (there was a prior, unfinished endeavor towards this) or be built-in to libardour as Filter (like existing filters: Reverse audio, Pitch-shift, Time-stretch). – That may still be only a week-end or three.

If the goal is simply to bundle the binary we could grab it from anywhere, a prior example is e.g. gmsynth.lv2 or Harrison XT-* LV2 plugins. They’re bundled with Ardour binaries, but are not part of Ardour’s source tree. – If you have pre-compiled binaries (for Windows, Linux, MacOS/X) that would be a couple of minutes.

Thanks for the advise Robin!

I’m working on moving the plugin to DISTRHO framework. This allows me to get easier cross-compiling binaries. Got everything working with travis ci and a test plugin, so next is noise repellent.

Finally I spended the time and created automated builds to get binaries for most platforms. Made a new release too so everyone can benefit. No more need to fiddle with meson for those who hate it. https://github.com/lucianodato/noise-repellent/releases/tag/0.1.5

Let me know if you find any troubles with the new binaries

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Try https://github.com/lucianodato/noise-repellent/releases instead.

Or https://github.com/lucianodato/noise-repellent/tree/0.1.5 , if you want to clone that particular git tag

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Hi! Ubuntu 18.04.3, Ardour 5.12 - everything is fine! Big thanks for binaries! (and for the nice tool, of course!)

Ahh thanks for updating the links. I’ve messed up with my tags naming.

Audacity is your best option here. Free, open-source, cross-platform and high quality, reliable noise reduction with many options to ensure you get the sound you need after the noise reduction filter runs. See more and download at https://www.audacityteam.org

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