Question

The title says it all. Audacity has a very simple function for doing this.

Answer 1

No it does not. It only has a Gate and an Expander at this time. If you are also looking for a De-esser, the gate has a preset for a very good one.

Answer 2

For a free DAW, Audacity is really useful. Hard to believe StudioOne doesn't have this as a feature. Using an expander works sorta, but not quite as good as what the noise reduction plugin does.

Answer 3

I don't understand that still in Studio One 4.6 there is not a Noise Reduction function.  A Gate and Expander is not the same thing.  Please add it so we who are sometimes working with prerecorded files do not have to go into another program to remove background noise that is present in the files.  Adobe Audition and yes Audacity, for example,  have included a Noise Reduction for a long time.