VocalEngine

What it does

VocalEngine cleans up a vocal take the way an engineer would, in one pass and in the right order.

It opens with a Restore panel built around two big knobs, NOISE and ROOM. NOISE has two engines: NATURAL, the default, made for singing, removes steady room noise such as fans, air-con and hiss without graining held notes or vibrato; AI, built on DeepFilterNet, handles changing noise such as traffic and voices. ROOM is a de-reverb that shortens the room tail of bedroom and untreated-room recordings. LISTEN plays only what they remove, and a dry blend lets you keep as much of the room as you want.

What follows is a channel strip in the order that works: a high-pass filter to clear rumble, a de-esser with a listen mode so you hear exactly what it removes, an opto-style compressor, and an air shelf for the top end. The compressor and air stages run oversampled in HQ mode.

A global mix knob blends the whole chain against the dry signal, bypass is click-free, and input and output meters sit side by side so you can match levels rather than guess.