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It includes a fantastic collection of vintage analog modeled processing effects and others. In recent versions, other intelligent features have been added, such as the Master Assistant. Master Assistant uses artificial intelligence to suggest an effect chain and settings to match a particular target, like a reference track or dissemination methods such as a CD or streaming.
Regarding streaming, there is also a cool Codec Preview display which allows you to hear the effect of mp3 or AAC compression based on a chosen bit rate. You can even solo the predicted artifacts created by the selected lossy compression format. Not only have I used Ozone 8 for in-the-box mastering, but I find it to be great for optimizing and tweaking samples for use in sampler instruments, loops and as content for larger pieces.
This is definitely a desert island plugin for me! Neutron 3 Advanced. Neutron 3 is the latest release of this effects suite that can be used individually or all within the Neutron mothership, similar to Ozone. I find the Transient Shaper to be one of the best devices of its kind and the XY design of the Exciter allows the user to sculpture saturation based on a melding of four quadrants: tube, tape, retro and warm. The Dynamic mode of the EQ makes it a powerful adaptive processor that is highly useful with content that has sporadic problem frequencies and the sidechain capability can be useful for ducking certain frequencies when appropriate, such as those in a music track when dialogue is present, or ducking the bass when the kick hits.
The Sculptor plugin is a new spectral shaping tool in Neutron 3. It is designed to reduce muddiness, harshness and other spectral problems with transparent processing similar to the Spectral Shaper in Ozone 8. Three artificial intelligence features of Neutron 3 can be huge timesavers and substantially speed up your workflow. The Track Enhance function is available as part of the Mix Assistant and will analyze a track in terms of the instrument, and desired style and intensity.
It then presents a suggested effects chain with settings designed to achieve the desired mix. While these outcomes are never the perfect solution, they can quickly identify problems and present fixes that would have taken much longer to deal with. The function works by instantiating a Relay plugin on every track in a new unmixed session.
Insert the Neutron mothership on one of the tracks and engage the Mix Assistant. A dialogue box will ask you to choose a focus for the track e. Play the session beginning to end and the software will adjust the levels of each track via the Relay plugin and present you with some levels for instrumental groups and allow adjustments to taste.
This process is not intended to generate a final mix by any means, but simply a fast way to determine some initial levels after which traditional mixing and processing can begin. The newly designed Masking feature of the EQ uses inter-track and plugin communication to identify masking issues in the spectrum.
When a Neutron EQ or the suite is instantiated on two tracks where masking seems to be occurring, engaging the Masking button on one of the tracks will expose a drop-down menu of other tracks where the plugin is present.
Choosing one will allow control of both plugins in the same window! A graphic identifies problem areas to be addressed and a handy Inverse link switch can be used to simultaneously boost one area of the spectrum while attenuating the same area in the other track. This is a brilliant timesaver! The Visual Mixer is another innovative solution by iZotope.
This plugin will access Neutron Mix Tap or Relay devices or any Neutron instance placed on other tracks and allow the user to orient the sound in the stereo field, change overall level and adjust the stereo width all from within a simple XY interface. Tonal Balance. The Tonal Balance plugin allows for inter-plugin communication and control with Ozone and Neutron devices. Placed as the last plugin on the master or stereo out track, it provides visual feedback of the spectral balance of the mix as it plays within the context of various acceptable ranges.
You can view generic ranges such as Bass Heavy, Modern or Orchestral, or use a custom target curve based on the reference track of your choice. While the mix plays, you can dial up Neutron or Ozone EQs present on other tracks by choosing them from the drop-down menu, and their controls will be available in the Tonal Balance interface. The Tonal Balance display will reflect any changes you make on a particular track.
While this is certainly no substitute for a good set of ears, being able to compare tracks visually in terms of spectral balance is useful feedback nonetheless. Insight 2. If you are at all concerned with amplitude specs, you need Insight 2. It provides you a window into all relevant specifications and amplitude standards to make sure your deliverables are healthy and consistent with industry demands no matter what the media or dissemination method.
But beyond that, the plugin offers information on spectral content, phase, sound field, and intelligibility. Installed instances of the Relay or Mix Tap plugins on other tracks will allow Insight to access and analyze those tracks in terms of how well they will be heard or understood in terms of dialog or vocals in hypothetical environments and noise levels. Compared to Insight, basic multimeter plugins pale in comparison.
Trash 2. I love Trash! The multi-stage filtering, convolution processing, and custom effect routing provide astonishing and unexpected results. I have found that this device is highly content-driven, in that the same settings can yield substantially different results with even subtle variations in content. The completely new Neutron Elements includes 4 powerful tools for great mixes for less than the cost of a single plug-in. RX Elements is the perfect introduction to the world of audio repair, offering essential plug-ins and modules to remove noise, clipping, clicks, hum, and other problems in dialogue and music productions that plague small studios.
This includes the completely overhauled De-hum module, which now features increased precision for better hum detection and new parameter controls for fine-tuning. You also get a standalone audio editor featuring the groundbreaking Repair Assistant, and an intuitive Spectrogram editor—now with horizontal scrolling—all at an affordable price. Give your vocals professional clarity and polish with Nectar Elements. Using the new Vocal Assistant, Nectar Elements analyzes and adapts to your vocal sound, taking the guesswork out of placing your vocal in the mix and letting you make your vocals stand out in just a few clicks.
Vocal Assistant Using our latest advances in machine learning, Vocal Assistant listens to your vocal and creates a custom preset unique to your sound. Select from three distinct mixing modes covering vocals of all styles, from modern music to dialogue. Nectar Elements automatically detects resonant frequencies, chooses the right amount of compression and reverb, reduces problematic sibilance, and then adjusts the tone to your chosen target.
From the makers of Ozone and RX, Neutron 3 will bring your mixes into the 21st century with new assistive audio technology, new interactive visuals, and faster performance. Neutron 3 packages the latest advances in audio technology and passes them to you, so you can focus on your craft. Neutron 3 listens to your whole session and kicks things off right by suggesting an initial level mix.
The be-all, end-all of audio goodness. For sweetening, fixing, and even creative applications, Sculptor is like having an army of EQs and compressors working tirelessly to shape your track. Choose from 25 unique instrument profiles to shape your instrument into a totally new version of itself. Resizeable, beautiful, and significantly faster. Dive into analysis tools that enhance your mixing experience and get results with plug-in controls made for humans, not machines.
Use the included Visual Mixer plug-in to adjust the gain, pan, and width of any Neutron or Relay in your session. With a convenient one-window display and smoother metering, Masking Meter is now even better at helping you find and fix competing elements of your mix to create space for your instruments. Designed specifically for the demanding needs of post production professionals, RX 8 Advanced continues to be the industry standard audio repair tool used on movies and TV shows to restore damaged, noisy audio to pristine condition.
Trusted by the top audio pros around the world , RX 8 continues to lead advances in audio signal processing and machine learning that were once unimaginable. Break out Guitar De-noise to tighten up your guitar recordings, an even more powerful Music Rebalance for stem separation and mix tweaking, and the revamped Loudness Control module. Unleash the overhauled Batch Processor on audio of any kind for simultaneous multi-file editing, reformatting, and exporting. Years of research and innovations in machine learning have allowed us to solve some of the most impossible repair issues in audio post production, making re-recording a thing of the past.
To process audio in RX 8, our trained algorithm makes around , decisions per second about the amount of dialogue present in each pixel of the spectrogram. Advances in machine learning have allowed us to develop repair solutions for lavalier mic rustle, unwanted dialogue reverb, noisy dialogue backgrounds, vocal extraction, and vocal removal. With the increasing necessity of remote meetings, podcast interviews, and video calls, real-time audio streaming is becoming more and more prevalent.
Unfortunately, audio transfer protocols over the internet compress the audio and remove high-end frequencies that aid in clarity and intelligibility. Spectral Recovery restores frequencies above 4 kHz, turning grainy dialogue audio into clear, articulate recordings.
Physical audio recordings—such as tape and vinyl—inevitably fall prey to the elements as time goes by. This often results in pitch fluctuations in audio recordings. Use Wow to fix longer, sustained pitch drift, and Flutter to correct pitch variances that occur at faster rates. To help you tackle more work faster, RX 8 doubles the previous tab limit, now allowing you to view and edit up to 32 files within RX Audio Editor , so you can cover more ground in less time with greater efficiency and in-app real estate.
Use the scroll gesture on your trackpad or mouse with your cursor to scroll through your audio across the X-axis or lightning fast edits. Dialogue Contour [Advanced only] Using Dialogue Contour, you can reshape the intonation of dialogue to rescue or improve a performance in post production. Dialogue Contour features pitch correction processing that is tailored to speech and designed to adjust the inflection of words within a phrase of dialogue that may not match or flow correctly with the rest of the dialogue in the clip.
Dialogue De-reverb [Advanced only] Reduce or remove unwanted reverb from dialogue clips using an algorithm trained with machine learning and optimized to separate spoken dialogue from reverberant signal content. Rescue production audio with too much reverb to avoid ADR and save money.
View pertinent metadata in your audio files prior to processing, then apply a full series of processors with Module Chain, now accessible from within the Batch Processor interface. Finally, export your files in multiple file formats and bit depths for optimal efficiency and organization. Multichannel Support [Advanced only] Tackle audio issues that appear in any or every surround channel effortlessly up to Dolby Atmos 7. With improved source separation algorithms and the ability to generate stems from a stereo recording, you can easily re-animate a mix, make room for scene dialogue in post, remove or isolate vocals for a remix, or even create and export new stems for further processing and mixing.
Also available as an AudioSuite plug-in for Pro Tools. Solve common audio issues faster than ever, simply by selecting the type of material music, dialogue, other and letting RX 8 Standard analyze the audio. Repair Assistant then offers different processing suggestions to help give you the best result, as well as three different intensities light, medium, or aggressive for each.
Review and audition different suggestions, hit render, and let Repair Assistant do the rest for you! Remove ground loop hum and line noise improved and detection and reduction algorithm featuring independent frequency reduction bands, and redesigned, intuitive interface.
Instantly load preset loudness standard targets and conform your production audio to broadcast requirements in seconds, and monitor your levels using the built-in numeric and histogram readouts for integrated, short-term, and momentary loudness. Plus, resize the module to fit your display perfectly and suit your own unique workflow. De-rustle [Advanced only] Developed with machine learning, De-rustle enables you to remove lavalier mic rustle from dialogue with a single click—an industry first!
Dialogue Isolate [Advanced only ] Developed with machine learning, Dialogue Isolate extracts dialogue from noisy environments with complex background sounds like clanging plates in a restaurant, traffic noise, and machinery. De-wind [Advanced only] Clean up intermittent low frequency wind rumble from location dialogue.
Composite View Edit multiple files at once—up to 32 at a time—to fix problems picked up by multiple microphones or in multichannel files. Spectral De-ess Tame overly aggressive sibilance. Voice De-noise Fine-tuned for vocal application, r educe unwanted steady state or changing background noise like air conditioning, refrigerator hum, and amp hiss.
Breath Control Reduce or remove distracting breaths between words and phrases. Spectral De-noise Attenuate amp buzz, tape hiss, and other unwanted steady state background noise. De-click Clean up vinyl clicks, clocking errors, and more with the new low-latency De-click algorithm. De-clip Repair digital and analog clipping artifacts to restore distorted audio. Find the sweet spot for your track quickly and fluidly, to push to extreme heights or add subtle hints of motion.
Create fresh filter effects for any genre — massive filter swells, psychedelic alternatives to flange effects, or fresh inspiration for adventurous soundscapes. Based on the auditory illusion of the Shepard tone, Mobius Filter creates perpetually rising or falling effects while maintaining full-frequency bandwidth. Add it to any source audio to instantly create fresh energy for your tracks.
Mobius Filter creates the sensation of constant movement in your audio by applying the concept of the Shepard Tone to filters instead of pitches. Depending on your preferences, your audio can rise or fall at varying speeds for complex—but easy to achieve—spatial movement. Combined with automation in your audio editing software, the possibilities with Mobius Filter are endless.
Mobius Filter can take over for phasers on your guitar tracks to produce unique and fresh filtered tones. On distorted instruments, introduce needed motion and activity to an otherwise steady track. Fire it up on a psychedelic rock session for a modern spin on retro vibe-y flanger tones. Set Mobius Filter aggressively and then dial back with the Mix control to get a sense of complex motion while still preserving your mix.
Liven up a dull vocal track without detracting from the intelligibility. Create an emotional swelling or descending effect on sections of the mix with perpetually rising or falling filters to bring it all back from a drop or enhance a transition.
Create exciting movement with the new Curve Editor and control any effect in tempo. Dive deeper with new banks full of pre-made presets soaring gestures, glitched-out breakdowns, and beyond. Elevate your productions and get a bottomless well of inspiration in a single plug-in with Stutter Edit 2.
One-button Access With the new AUTO mode, you can easily try out sounds in your mix and fire off gestures without any routing required. Get inspired with professionally designed presets that give you cinematic rises, exciting transitions, and club-ready filter sweeps out of the box, ready to be added to your productions.
Choose your range with the blue sliders, pick a premade curve or draw your own , and play back to hear your creation. Make stutters, breaks, and cuts.. Put Stutter Edit 2 on your tracks to fire off rhythmic gestures, sweeping filters, glitchy effects, or everything at once. Access dozens of unique gestures through custom banks, each with their own rhythmic flavour ready-made to deliver inspiration fast.
Chop up your samples to the beat, or just shred them into pitched, synth-y oblivion with the Stutter and Buffer controls. Get simple. Go deep. Try different gestures, and create your own! One plug-in, endless inspiration From wild stutter edits to sweeping filters, Stutter Edit 2 gives you the power to take your arrangements from demo to done. Excalibur is a stereo multi-effects plug-in unlike any other. With several modulation, pitch-shifting, and dynamics effect modules, Excalibur has the creative tools to tackle any music production, post production, or sound design project.
Four independent voice oscillators can subtly change the timbre of your recordings or drastically transform any audio source with swirling kinetic effects. Born of the same DSP algorithms that cemented Exponential Audio as a manufacturer of indispensable reverb tools, Excalibur takes this effect processing technology with a totally unique approach to effect routing.
Excalibur is an entire effects toolbox in a single plug-in. Complete with several pitch shifting, modulation, and distortion functions, all with the ability to sync to your session tempo, you can be sure that Excalibur has the right tools to color your audio just the way you want.
With Excalibur, not only can you implement creative modulation features and time- and pitch-based effects, you can also route your processed audio signals to interact with and modulate one another, producing otherwise unachievable, one-of-a-kind sounds. With four discrete Voice modules, Excalibur lets you combine and modulate effects using its unique signal routing capabilities and tempo-syncable LFOs, giving you unprecedented control over the sounds you create.
Insight 2 is a comprehensive metering and audio analysis plug-in that is a core component of award-winning post production studios , music studios, and broadcast facilities. It is perfect for visualizing changes made during mixing and mastering, troubleshooting problematic mixes, monitoring the intelligibility of your dialogue, and ensuring compliance with broadcast loudness standards. With Insight 2, you can immediately detect potential mix problems through real-time visual monitoring and colour-coded alerts.
Customize your view by choosing the meters you want to see, set your preferred targets, and resize the window to fit your current workflow. You can also route any audio track in your DAW to Insight 2 to quickly check loudness, levels, intelligibility, phase, frequency content, and more. With layouts and targets for every stage of post and music production, you can deliver the optimum mix the first time around.
Save time and money when mixing and mastering audio by monitoring your audio with the highest accuracy. Keep an eye as well as an ear on your mix at all times with Insight 2! Get a complete set of meters that can be customized and form fit to any session. Gain valuable perspective on any aspect of your mix, from loudness, intelligibility, spectral balance, and more. Mix with confidence using visual benchmarks that confirm your dialogue is sufficiently clear. Setting the dialogue level can be subjective and situational.
You can now measure the intelligibility of your dialogue compared to the rest of the mix to ensure that your dialogue level can be clearly heard in different listening environments. Insight 2 has an updated design that matches the rest of the iZotope family. The most important targets have been emphasized to make Insight 2 easier to read at a glance.
Now you can easily resize individual meters in the main window by clicking and dragging between two-meter frames. Additionally, the main window can now be resized to be as small as the smallest meter—perfect for throwing your loudness meters up in the corner of your third monitor!
Insight 2 is customizable and flexible for your perfect setup. You can display and resize any meter you want or select one of the many Layouts designed for specific post and music production settings. A brand new addition to Insight 2, The Intelligibility Meter provides guidance on whether dialogue is likely to be overshadowed by the loudness of the rest of your mix.
Using iZotope Relay or other compatible plug-ins, Insight 2 takes information from your dialogue track and gives you the best recommendation on where your dialogue should be when compared to the rest of your mix. Select from different target Listening Environments, ranging from low to high noise, to check how the intelligibility of your dialogue holds up for listeners in those spaces.
Spectogram The Spectrogram lets you view your audio on a 3d topographical plane. Custom UI Display and resize any meter you want and create your own unique workspace. Perform detailed analysis by routing audio from any tracks or buses to Insight 2 with Relay. Enjoy the flexibility of using any plug-in while still getting all the benefits of our innovative new tools across your entire mix. Get a clear picture of how your tracks stack up against your entire mix using the included iZotope Relay plug-in.
Any channel with the Relay plug-in on it can be viewed in Intelligibility Meter and on the Spectrogram inside Insight 2, letting you visually compare your track to the rest of the mix. Important note: Visual Mixer is available seperately in Neutron 2 Advanced and is not included with Insight. Meters in Insight 2 Easily show or hide meters with the meter selection buttons at the top of the screen.
Trash 2 takes the best of Trash and makes it even better. With an entirely new sonic architecture, brand new features, optimized performance, better sound quality, and support for modern hosts and formats, Trash 2 is primed for a powerful new era of audio mangling, distortion, and experimentation. Let sonic mayhem ensue. Not all distortions are created equal. Trash 2 combines the power of multi-band, dual-stage distortions and advanced post-filtering for immediate sonic transformation.
Trash any track: not just guitars and basses, but drums, synths, pads, vocals, brass, woodwinds, and more. A distortion engine like no other, this is Trash 2. Invent a distortion that the world has never heard. If the physics of waveshaping have your brain in a knot—not to worry.
Trash has shaped everything from major music releases to film and game sound effects over the past decade. Your audio is next. The power to morph sound from one object to another is yours with the new Convolve module. Melt your synth bass into a metal bowl, push your electric piano into a vintage cabinet, or play your guitar tone through a human voice box. Convolve includes over impulse responses—a collection of amps, objects, animal sounds and mouth shapes that are ready and waiting to transform your sound.
Or, concoct a unique convolution and load any. Impress the sonic characteristics of your wildest imagination onto any track or instrument. A single mouse click is all you need. Explore new sonic dimensions with the Filter, Delay and Dynamics modules. Modulate, invigorate and apply exotic filter sounds, then control and manipulate each node with LFOs, envelopes and side-chaining.
Throughout the wild ride, the ear-friendly Limiter keeps you and your speakers safe. The heart of Trash is its dual-stage multiband waveshaping distortion—allowing you to chain pairs of distortions together for sonic manipulation. Split the signal into multiple bands and apply distortion independently to individual frequencies, each with their own custom waveshape. Be extreme or be benevolent: the power of audio annihilation is completely within your control.
With distortion, tone is everything. Shape the tone and make it your own with re-engineered Filter shapes and new Vowel Filters. Trash features extremely realistic amp, device, cabinet, effect and speaker convolution modeling, freeing you to place your audio into another space or object entirely. Choose from classics, combos, boutique models, and stacks, or play with creative synthetic impulses from a number of different sources.
Still want more? With the Convolve module, you can teleport your sound wherever you please by loading in your own audio files. Controlling distortion goes far beyond simple filtering and limiting. To get the most out of your tracks, Trash 2 includes a multiband Compressor and Noise Gate to squash the peaks, add grit and character, silence the noise, or draw out sustain. With the addition of sidechaining support, multiband processing, and an updated compression algorithm, the Dynamics module is sure to be among the most powerful tools in Trash 2.
Go a step further by using a classic lo-fi Delay. Choose from delays that include: tape delay with saturation and nonlinear tape machine artifacts, tape-tube delay with added tube saturation modeling, classic analog delay with analog degradation, and lo-fi digital delay with quantization noise and aliasing. Increase your distortion potential with new presets and impulses in our versatile Expansion Packs, each designed for exclusive with Trash 2.
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Pro Audio Essentials is a game-based course for music producers to practice and improve their audio skills. This unique learning experience uses audio games. Availability and Pricing. Pro Audio Essentials is available free of charge. For optimal gameplay, visit basictutorialonline.com from a desktop computer. Pro Audio Essentials is a web-based educational experience and iZotope believe it is the first of its kind in the audio education space.