Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 13 (Mac & Windows)

Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 13 — See Sound. Shape Every Detail.

SpectraLayers Pro 13 is Steinberg’s spectral audio editor — the tool that lets you see your audio as a spectrogram and edit tones, transients and noise as visual objects, instead of guessing at a waveform. Released July 2026, version 13 adds powerful new AI unmixing and voice-repair tools for post-production, dialogue cleanup, audio restoration and sound design.

What’s New in Version 13

• Unmix Sound Effects — separates short sounds (door slams, footsteps, coughs) from continuous ambience (wind, crowd, traffic, nature) onto their own layer, keeping the background texture intact.
• Ambience Heal — automatically fills spectral gaps left by an unmix or cut using room tone already in the recording.
• Unmix Two Voices — separates two speakers without registering voice profiles first.
• Voice DeCrosstalk — isolates an overlapping background or foreground voice from the primary voice.
• Voice DeClick — removes mouth noise like lip smacks and tongue clicks.
• Reconstruct — resynthesizes selected spectral data: rebuild tones, transients and noise from your selections.
• Level Check — auto-updating True Peak and LU loudness measurements on selections and layer combinations.
• Attenuate and Fade modules, improved DeNoise with new precision and smoothness controls, improved Unmix Components, and Paste Into Selection / Paste Insert tools.
• Batch processing across multiple open projects, saveable UI layouts, 100+ functions assignable to keyboard shortcuts, and audio-device support beyond 128 channels.

Standalone + ARA 2

Use SpectraLayers Pro 13 as a standalone application, as an ARA 2 extension inside Cubase, Nuendo and other ARA 2 hosts, or via the Pro Tools AudioSuite Bridge for round-trip editing — now with multi-clip round-trip, Dolby Atmos up to 9.1.6 and Ambisonics. It hosts VST3 plug-ins and offers up to 384 kHz sample rate, 16 channels and unlimited layers.

Licensing — No Dongle

Steinberg Licensing: activate with your Steinberg ID through the Activation Manager on up to 3 computers. No USB dongle required. Perpetual license.

System Requirements

• Mac: macOS 12 Monterey – 26 Tahoe; Intel Core i5 (mid-2013+) or Apple Silicon.
• Windows: 64-bit Windows 10/11 (21H2+); Intel Core i5 4th-gen+, AMD Ryzen, or Qualcomm Snapdragon X; Windows 11 on Arm 24H2+ supported.
• RAM: 8 GB (16 GB recommended); 8 GB free disk; 1920×1080 display minimum; DirectX 11 GPU (DirectX 12 recommended for AI processing).

Every customer receives their own individual license key.