#Izotope 8 advanced review update#

Ozone makes a great investment because once you get acquainted with it, you can master tracks for others and make back your money over time. The latest version really shines with it’s improved arsenal. Master Assistant, Tonal Balance Control, Track Referencing, and Spectral Shaper (all included with Ozone 8 Advanced) give you incredible control of your music. It’s now about as simple as importing a reference track in a desired end-product state, and Ozone will actually master your track for you.The latest versions of iZotope’s Ozone and Neutron are not only more intelligent than their predecessors, they can also communicate with one another.īack in January 2017, we reviewed iZotope’s Neutron, an innovative plug-in that not only includes a wide range of processing tools, but a facility called Track Assistant, which automatically analyses source tracks and suggests appropriate settings.

#Izotope 8 advanced review update#

The version 2 update under review here not only introduces an improved Track Assisant with expanded functionality, but also debuts new features aimed at speeding up your mixing still further. Simultaneously, iZotope also launched version 8 of their long-established Ozone mastering suite. This incorporates numerous new features and improvements, perhaps the most interesting of which is the ability to communicate with Neutron 2, opening up the possibility of addressing mastering EQ-related issues within a mix. Since Ozone 7 was also covered in some depth relatively recently, in SOS February 2016, I’m going to concentrate here on the improvements and new features found in the Advanced versions of both programs, some of which don’t appear in their lower-cost Standard and Elements variants. Tracks that don’t require Neutron processing can still make their contribution to its analysis of other tracks, thanks to the new Mix Tap plug-in.Designed to ease and enhance your mixing process, rather than to automate it, Neutron 2 aims to provides starting points on which you can build, alongside tools intended to assist you in analysing and correcting issues in your mix and in its component tracks. An important feature of Neutron 2 is that all of its instances are ‘aware’ of, and can communicate with, all of the others.

The ideal starting point for a Neutron 2-assisted mix is therefore to instantiate the plug-in on every track, at the end of any existing plug-in chains. In case that tips your CPU load over the edge, Neutron 2 also gives you the option of inserting a new lightweight Mix Tap plug-in. Mix Tap features Neutron 2’s high-pass filter and the new delay offset, polarity invert, sum-to-mono and L/R channel swap functions, and can communicate with instances of Neutron 2 on other tracks.