VoicEX - Audio software CEDAR - Free user manual and instructions

Product Type	Audio Software Plugin
Category	Audio Restoration & Voice Processing
Brand	CEDAR
Model	VoicEX
Platform Compatibility	Windows (Vista/7/8/10/11), macOS (10.12+)
Plugin Format	VST, AU, AAX (64-bit)
Key Functions	Voice extraction, noise reduction, dialogue cleaning, audio restoration
Real-time Processing	Yes, with low latency
User Interface	Resizable GUI with preset management
Supported Sample Rates	44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 96 kHz, 192 kHz
Bit Depth	16, 24, 32-bit float
License Type	Perpetual license, single-user
Protection	iLok or machine-based activation
Software Updates	Free updates within major version
Technical Support	Email and online knowledge base
System Requirements	4 GB RAM, multi-core processor, 500 MB free disk space
Installation	Installer provided via download

Frequently Asked Questions - VoicEX CEDAR

What are the system requirements for CEDAR VoicEX?

CEDAR VoicEX requires a computer with at least 4 GB RAM, a multi-core processor, and 500 MB of free hard drive space. It supports Windows (Vista/7/8/10/11) and macOS (10.12 or later).

In which plugin formats is VoicEX available?

VoicEX is available in VST2, VST3, AU, and AAX (64-bit) formats, making it compatible with most major DAWs like Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase, and Reaper.

Can VoicEX be used in real-time?

Yes, VoicEX supports real-time processing with low latency, allowing you to monitor effects live while recording or mixing.

Does VoicEX require a hardware dongle for activation?

VoicEX can be activated using an iLok dongle (2nd generation or newer) or via machine-based authorization on up to two computers.

Can I try VoicEX before purchasing?

Yes, a fully functional trial version is available for download on the CEDAR website. It works for a limited period (usually 14 days) with no audio interruptions.

What kind of processing does VoicEX perform?

VoicEX specializes in voice extraction, noise reduction, and dialogue cleaning. It can remove background hum, buzz, and other artifacts while preserving voice clarity.

Are presets available in VoicEX?

Yes, VoicEX comes with a library of factory presets for common scenarios (e.g., studio dialogue, field recording, live broadcast). Users can also save custom presets.

Is VoicEX compatible with Dolby Atmos or immersive formats?

VoicEX is primarily a mono/stereo plugin. For immersive formats like Dolby Atmos, it can be used on individual channels or stems, but it does not natively process multichannel beds.

How do I update VoicEX to the latest version?

Updates within the same major version are free. You can download the latest installer from your CEDAR account or check for updates in the plugin's about window.

Where can I find the user manual for VoicEX?

The user manual is available for free download in PDF format on the official CEDAR website and on platforms like Notice Facile. It covers installation, operation, and troubleshooting.

USER MANUAL VoicEX CEDAR

CEDAR VoicEX manual v1.02 - 13 September 2023

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Table Of Contents

Getting Started 4

Installing CEDAR VoicEX – Mac 5

Installing CEDAR VoicEX – PC......6

Using VoicEX 7

Contact Information and Support......9

Licence and Limited Warranty 10

Getting Started

Unpacking and licensing

CEDAR VoicEX is supplied electronically for Mac and PC hosts using an iLok, so no physical objects are necessary or supplied.

Licensing of CEDAR VoicEX is achieved using the iLok licence manager. Please refer to your iLok documentation.

Assumed Knowledge

CEDAR VoicEX conforms to the 64-bit AAX Native and 64-bit VST 2.4, VST 3 and AU plug-in formats. It is not compatible with 32-bit operating systems or hosts.

This manual assumes that you are fully conversant with your host computer, and that you know how to operate the host software onto which you're loading CEDAR VoicEX. It will refer to operations that are common to these products, but will not attempt to explain them.

Troubleshooting Non-CEDAR Components

If you encounter problems with your Macintosh®, MacOS®, OS X®, your PC, Microsoft Windows®, or any 3 ^rd party host system, please refer to the relevant manuals or contact the dealer that supplied these to you. Unless appointed independently as authorised dealers for the following products, CEDAR Audio's dealers will not attempt to provide technical support for:

• Macintosh computers
- MacOS and OS X
• PCs of any description
- Microsoft Windows
- 3^rd party host hardware
- 3^rd party host software

Installing CEDAR VoicEX – Mac

■ Before proceeding, ensure that any older versions of the plug-in (if any) are archived and removed from the plug-in folder.
■ Double-click on the installer package:
CEDARAudioLtd-VoicEX.pkg
■ Follow the instructions offered by the installer.

■ Ensure that you have sufficient space on your drive and then press Install to install the complete package or press the Customise button to select which formats are loaded.

■ A message will appear to tell you that installation was completed successfully.

Installing CEDAR VoicEX - PC

■ If necessary, uninstall any previous version of CEDAR VoicEX.
■ Double-click on the installer package: VoicEX_Full_Setup.exe

■ Follow the instructions offered by the installer.
■ Ensure that you have sufficient space on your drive and then select the plug-in formats that you wish to install.

■ A message will appear to tell you that the installation was completed successfully. Click on OK and Finish.

Using VoicEX

Artificial Intelligence (AI) based upon deep neural networks (DNNs) has the potential to offer many advancements in the field of audio processing. VoicEX is an example of this. It incorporates some unique algorithmic features that take it beyond standard DNN-based noise reduction techniques and, for a wide range of material, is able to separate voices (primarily but not limited to speech) from other sounds, and to perform superior noise reduction when compared with traditional signal processing techniques.

Tutorial

Internally, VoicEX creates two signal streams - one containing any voices identified within the input signal, and the other containing everything else. To eliminate the noise and excessive reverberation, leave the voice control at zero and reduce the background knob to the desired degree. Do not over process; although VoicEX is extremely tolerant, you may introduce a slight change in the retained signal. To eliminate the voices, leave the background knob at zero and reduce the voice control to its minimum.

You may accentuate either the voices or the background by increasing either control above zero.

Controls

Voice

Attenuate or accentuated signal that is identified as voices. The range is notionally -50dB to +20dB.

Noise

Attenuate or accentuated signal that is not identified as voices. The range is notionally -50dB to +20dB.

Additional Information

Contact Information and Support

Headquarters

Address:	CEDAR Audio Ltd, 20 Home End, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5BS, UK
Telephone and Fax:	T: [phone] F: [phone]
Email:	[e-mail]

USA Office

Address:	CEDAR Audio USA, 82 Gilman Street, Portland, ME 04102, USA
Telephone and Fax:	T: [phone] F: [phone]
Email:	[e-mail]

German Office

Address:	CEDAR Deutschland, Görlitzer Str 3, D-49525 Lengerich, Deutschland
Telephone and Fax:	T: [phone] F: [phone]
Email:	[e-mail]

Web

English language:	www.cedaraudio.com
German language:	www.cedaraudio.de

Worldwide Dealer List

For an up-to-date dealer list, please visit www.cedaraudio.com.

Technical Support

Should you experience difficulties with CEDAR VoicEX, please contact your local dealer or CEDAR office. Alternatively, you may send an email to [e-mail]. In either case, please provide the following details:

■ Your software version number.
■ Details of the host system and version numbers.
■ A precise description of the problem.

Licence and Limited Warranty

1. DEFINITIONS

In this Licence and Limited Warranty the following words and phrases shall bear the following meanings:

'the Company' is CEDAR Audio Limited of 20 Home End, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5BS, UK;

'the System' means any instance of any product developed by the Company, including but not limited to VoicEX;

'this Document' means this Licence and Limited Warranty.

2. ISSUE AND USE OF THE SYSTEM

2.1 The terms and conditions of this Document are implicitly accepted by any person or body corporate who shall at any time use or have access to the System, and are effective from the date of supply of the System by CEDAR Audio Limited to its immediate customer.

2.2 The Company hereby grants to the Licensee and the Licensee agrees to accept a non-exclusive right to use the System.

3. PROPERTY AND CONFIDENTIALITY

3.1 The System contains confidential information of the Company and all copyright, trade marks, trade names, styles and logos and other intellectual property rights in the System including all documentation and manuals relating thereto are the exclusive property of the Company. The Licensee acknowledges that all such rights are the property of the Company and shall not question or dispute the ownership of any such rights nor use or adopt any trading name or style similar to that of the Company.

3.2 The Licensee shall not attempt to reverse engineer, modify, copy, merge or transcribe the whole or any part of the System or any information or documentation relating thereto.

3.3 The Licensee shall take all reasonable steps to protect the confidential information and intellectual property rights of the Company.

4. LIMITED WARRANTY AND POST-WARRANTY OBLIGATIONS

4.1 The Company warrants that the System will perform substantially in accordance with the appropriate section of its accompanying product manual for a period of one year from the date of supply to the Company's immediate customers.

4.2 The Company will make good at its own expenses by repair or replacement any defect or failure that develops in the System within one year of supply to the Company's immediate customer.

4.3 The Company shall have no liability to remedy any defect, failure, error or malfunction that arises as a result of any improper use, operation or neglect of the System, or any attempt to repair or modify the System by any person other than the Company or a person appointed with the Company's prior written consent.

4.4 In the case of any defect or failure in the System occurring more than twelve months after its supply to the Company's immediate customer the Company will at its option and for a reasonable fee make good such defect or failure by repair or replacement (at the option of the Company) subject to the faulty equipment having first been returned to the Company. The Company will use reasonable efforts to return repaired or replacement items promptly, all shipping, handling and insurance costs being for the account of the Licensee.

4.5 The above undertakings 4.1 to 4.4 are accepted by the Licensee in lieu of any other legal remedy in respect of any defect or failure occurring during the said period and of any other obligations or warranties expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of saleability and fitness for a specific purpose.

4.6 The Licensee hereby acknowledges and accepts that nothing in this Document shall impose upon the Company any obligation to repair or replace any item after a time when it is no longer produced or offered for supply by the Company or which the Company certifies has been superseded by a later version or has become obsolete.

5. FORCE MAJEURE

The Company shall not be liable for any breach of its obligations hereunder resulting from causes beyond its reasonable control including, but not limited to, fires, strikes (of its own or other employees), insurrection or riots, embargoes, container shortages, wrecks or delays in transportation, inability to obtain supplies and raw materials, or requirements or regulations of any civil or military authority.

6. WAIVER

The waiver by either party of a breach of the provisions hereof by the other shall not be construed as a waiver of any succeeding breach of the same or other provisions, nor shall any delay or omission on the part of either party to exercise any right that it may have under this Licence operate as a waiver of any breach or default by the other party.

7. NOTICES

Any notices or instruction to be given hereunder shall be delivered or sent by first-class post or telecopier to the other party, and shall be deemed to have been served (if delivered) at the time of delivery or (if sent by post) upon the expiration of seven days after posting or (if sent by telecopier) upon the expiration of twelve hours after transmission.

8. ASSIGNMENT AND SUB-LICENSING

The Licensee may at his discretion assign the System and in doing so shall assign this Licence its rights and obligations to the purchaser who shall without reservation agree to be bound by this Licence. The original Licensee and any subsequent Licensees shall be bound by the obligations of this Licence in perpetuity.

9. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The Company's maximum liability under any claim including any claim in respect of infringement of the intellectual property rights of any third party shall be, at the option of the Company either:

(a) return of a sum calculated as the price received for the System by the Company from its immediate customer depreciated on a straight line basis over a one year write-off period; or

(b) repair or replacement of those components of the System that do not meet the warranties contained within this Document.

The foregoing states the entire liability of the Company to the Licensee.

10. CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS

Even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages, and notwithstanding anything else contained herein the Company shall under no event be liable to the Licensee or to any other persons for loss of profits or contracts or damage (whether direct or consequential) arising in connection with the System or any modification, variation or enhancement thereof and including any documentation or data provided by the Company or for any other indirect or consequential loss.

11. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

The Company shall not be liable to the Licensee for any loss arising in connection with any representations, agreements, statements or undertakings made prior to the date of supply of the System to the Licensee.

12. TERMINATION

This Licence may be terminated forthwith by the Company if the Licensee commits any material breach of any terms of this Licence. Forthwith upon such termination the Company shall have immediate right of access to the System for the purpose of removing it.

13. SEVERABILITY

Notwithstanding that the whole or any part of any provision of this Document may prove to be illegal or unenforceable the other provisions of this Document and the remainder of the provision in question shall remain in full force and effect.

14. HEADINGS

The headings to the Clauses are for ease of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation or construction of this Document.

15. LAW

This Document shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and all disputes between the parties shall be determined in England in accordance with the Arbitration Act 1950 and 1979.

CEDAR VoicEX

CEDAR Audio Limited

20 Home End

Fulbourn

Cambridge

CB21 5BS

United Kingdom

t: [phone]

e: [e-mail]

w: www.cedaraudio.com

Copyright CEDAR Audio Ltd, ©2023

CEDAR is a registered trademark of CEDAR Audio Ltd

CEDAR VoicEX and all related trademarks are trademarks of CEDAR Audio Ltd

E&OE. Subject to revision at the Company's sole discretion