Alternatives to Steinberg SpectraLayers
Spectral audio editor for noise removal and AI-assisted source separation. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Steinberg SpectraLayers
Spectral audio editor for noise removal and AI-assisted source separation.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Steinberg SpectraLayers.
Audacity
A multi-track audio editor and recorder that has been the free default for twenty-five years.
Audacity is a free, open-source GPL-3.0 editor for Windows, macOS and Linux with many built-in effects for cleanup, but it offers no spectral editing or AI source separation.
Tenacity
A fork of Audacity created after the 2021 telemetry row, built to record and edit audio with nothing phoning home.
Tenacity is a free GPL-2.0 Audacity fork with no telemetry and FFmpeg format support, trading SpectraLayers' spectral editing and AI separation for a simpler waveform editor.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Sonic Visualiser
Inspect the contents of audio files through waveform and analysis displays.
Spek
Drops an audio file on the window and draws its spectrogram, so you can see where the quality really stops.
Steinberg WaveLab
Mastering suite with phase scope, multimeter and loudness analysis tools.
Krisp
AI noise cancellation app that strips background noise from calls and voice chat.
NVIDIA Broadcast
Free RTX-exclusive app for AI noise removal, virtual backgrounds, and auto-framing.
Loudly
An online AI music platform for generating, remixing, mastering and splitting stems of tracks.
