Went for this one too, it really sounds amazing.Well, well. This looks and sounds interesting (demo download available as well).
Thanks for the heads up.
Went for this one too, it really sounds amazing.Well, well. This looks and sounds interesting (demo download available as well).
Thanks for the heads up.
Seems to be Neutron 2 Standard and Ozone 8 Standard.Splice.com are offering 14.99 a month rent to own plan for both now. FYI.
https://splice.com/plugins/38538266-ozone-8-neutron-2-vst-by-izotope
Just looked through the rent-to-own pages and there's nothing I can find to say how long you have to rent them for before you own them or what the cost of owning them will be. I'm not at all keen on lack of transparency like this. Hopefully I've just missed something blatantly obvious...
Any idea if this is a reputable site? I always ask if somewhere is selling something cheaper than most other places.
I'm getting an upgrade price of $85 from Neutron standard to v.2 via JRR. Just not sure if that's even worth it.
What's new?
'Masking meter' - this is by far my most used feature, but what is new here? Still no attack and release for sidechaining. I see a 'soft saturation' button as well as 'stereo, phase, swap'. Is that really it?
'Visual mixer' - could come in handy, but that does require that you put Neutron on all your tracks, or at least a substantial amount of them. If it had included 3D placement, I'd be all over this. But it doesn't.
'Improved track assistant' - still not improved enough I suspect.
'Gate' - nice, but I've got plenty of those.
At the end of the day, it's a $85 upgrade for a plugin I paid $89 for.
I have purchased a lot of plugins from there and every single one (incl. those from iZotope) were registered directly on the developers website without any issues. The guys are very responsive but depending on the developer, delivery is not always "instant". iZotope e.g. process their orders manually, so it can take one or two days until the license arrives.
And it´s no big deal to create an account to see the prices (which is reasonable give that they have top-notch pricing).
That's understandable. Izotope's concept is that Neutron is a (very elaborate) channel strip and Ozone is a mastering processor. But the relevance of that distinction probably depends on the style of music and on individual workflow.... I also don't see why they are 2 separate programs, other than to make it easier to charge more.
Thanks for that Good to know they're good to deal with.
For the people who are using Ozone already for mastering: can u receommend it? Are you getting good results?
Also, a philosophical inquiry: What if these automatic plug ins, in a few releases, were able to produce mastered mixes that sounded better than what 50% of industry professionals could prepare by hand and ear? The objection of excessive uniformity seems less significant to me where my sense is that the music industry these days exerts a lot of pressure on artists to produce the 'sound' of whatever just sold a lot of product? Well, and doubtless noobs like myself would like our work to sound like that of our musical heros--not necessarily what is currently charting.
Ozone 9: Choose your reference track. Click “Master It” button.
Ozone 10: Forget the reference track. We’ve got this. Just click the “Master It” button.
Ozone 11: Ozone 10 has been a huge success and has been used on almost every #1 singe in the last few years. But we realize that creativity is important, so we want to open back up all of the tools to you so you can tweak the master to your heart’s content. That’s what it means to be artistic.
Ozone 12: Ozone 11 has been a huge success, but we realize you need more creative ability, so we are opening up more settings beyond just Ozone 10’s defaults and Ozone 11’s customization.
Ozone 13: Ozone 12 has been a huge success, but we realize that you need more variety for artistic creativity on your songs. So now, we are breaking Ozone up into individual components including vintage EQs, modern EQs, vintage compressors, modern compressors, etc. Every plugin will be separate and also available as a package circa 2017.
HA. Maybe not that extreme, but it seems like where this is heading...