This is a boon when you have many of them and want a simple way to move them within the Layers panel or across projects. The first one that’s going to appeal to a lot of people is layer grouping. The new features are concentrated on workflow capabilities that are going to make a lot of audio as well as video users happy.

There’s plenty of other new functionality to write about. Given Pro Tools’s popularity with musicians and those involved with post production, this is big news. The biggest new feature of SpectraLayers Pro 4 for Mac is support for exchanging audio data with Avid’s Pro Tools. Now with Magix at the wheel, the application has received its first upgrade since Sony sold it to the company. Last year, SpectraLayers Pro changed hands again. After Sony took over, it became snappier and was updated twice with some much-needed functionality. SpectraLayers started life as a sluggish but innovative spectral editing app that enables you to transpose, extract and optimise sounds.

RedShark Review: Now being developed by the Magix Software team, Version 4 offers Pro Tools integration and concentrates on workflow improvements.

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