Thought I'd share a success/enlightenment story that may be useful to others.

I do a fair amount of bass guitar, keyboard and drum pad recordings and on my last one a significant amount of noise ended up on my bass track. Studio One has a handful of built-in noise reduction tools and Strip-Silence is one I go to frequently. But someone mentioned the Stem Separator. At first I dismissed this idea since (in my mind) the Stem Separator is intended to separate instruments, not noise. But, the curious guy I am drove me to give it a try.

Here was my test:
1. I dragged in a complete song and separated out the bass (no problem as I do this quite frquently).
2. I then created a track of white noise using the Tone Generator.
3. I then exported the bass line and white noise tracks as a mixdown.
4. Then I dragged the mixdown back into Studio One to verify the bassline was heavily contaminated with the noise (and it was).
5. Then I Stem-Separated the contaminated track to extract the bass, and it worked like a charm. The bass was noise-free.

I have to say Kudos to the Presonus engineers for designing such a robust stem separator, it even works as a noise reduction tool.

As a side note, I'm beginning to look at Studio One as a general purpose audio-editing programming environment rather than just a "musicians DAW".
I know other DAWs are capable but the more I explore Studio One the more I realize how powerful it is.

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