Waves Z-Noise

Waves Z-Noise - Professional Noise Reduction Plugin｜Revolutionary Noise Suppression & Audio Purification Tool

In the pursuit of ultimate audio quality during recording and post-production, background noise has always been one of the biggest challenges for professionals. Waves Z-Noise is a revolutionary tool designed to solve this very problem. It combines advanced real-time noise profiling, innovative transient preservation technology, and enhanced low-frequency resolution to deliver unprecedented purity to your audio. Whether it's hiss from a microphone preamp, annoying AC hum, computer fan noise, or subtle floor noise that needs to be removed during mastering, Z-Noise provides a precise and transparent noise suppression solution, while fully preserving the dynamics and vitality of the original audio.

The core strength of Z-Noise lies in its unique audio restoration capabilities. Traditional noise reduction tools often sacrifice transient details when processing noise, causing drum hits to become muddy and guitar plucks to lose their clarity. However, Z-Noise utilizes a cutting-edge transient preservation algorithm that accurately distinguishes between useful musical signals and background noise, ensuring that your audio's integrity remains completely unaffected during the noise reduction process. Furthermore, its powerful adaptive mode can dynamically analyze and extract a noise profile even without a clean noise sample, making it the indispensable, ultimate solution for tackling complex and varying background noise.

Core Advantages & Use Cases

Revolutionary Noise Suppression Technology
Z-Noise employs an advanced FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) algorithm to break down the audio signal into extremely fine frequency components, enabling precise targeting and removal of noise for a clean, natural noise reduction effect.

Advanced Real-Time Noise Profiling
Even if you can't find a section of pure noise in your audio, Z-Noise's "Extract" feature can intelligently extract a noise profile from a segment that contains musical content. Meanwhile, its "Adaptive" mode continuously monitors and adjusts the noise profile, perfectly handling background noise that changes over time.

Innovative Transient Preservation
This is Z-Noise's key technology. It effectively protects transient components in the audio, such as drum hits, vocal sibilance, and instrument plucks, ensuring that the music's punch and clarity are fully preserved after noise reduction, avoiding the muffled sound quality issues caused by traditional noise reducers.

Enhanced Low-Frequency Resolution
Specially optimized for low-frequency noise (such as 50/60Hz AC hum and air conditioning buzz). Z-Noise provides higher low-frequency resolution, allowing it to cleanly remove these annoying low-frequency noises without affecting the tone of bass instruments like bass guitars and kick drums.

Wide Range of Applications
From home studios to top-tier recording facilities, Z-Noise is an essential audio restoration tool. It is suitable for treating microphone hiss in vocal recordings, electrical noise picked up in guitar/bass recordings, ambient noise from location sound, floor noise in mastering, and any professional scenario that requires enhanced audio purity.

Features in Detail & Core Components

Tech Specs

• Sample Rate Support: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz
• Channel Components: Mono-to-Mono, Stereo-to-Stereo
• Latency: Due to its advanced look-ahead processing mechanism, Z-Noise introduces a certain amount of latency. The specific latency time depends on the selected settings and sample rate.
• Plugin Formats: VST, VST3, Audio Units (AU), AAX Native, AudioSuite
• Mac System Requirements: Intel Core i7 / Apple M1 or higher; 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended); macOS 10.15.7, 11.6.5, 12.4; Minimum 1280x1024 screen resolution (1600x1024 recommended).
• Windows System Requirements: Intel Core i5 / AMD Quad-Core or higher; 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended); Windows 10 64-bit (21H2), Windows 11 (21H2); Minimum 1280x1024 screen resolution (1600x1024 recommended).