Use many of iZotope's advanced tools for your mixing and mastering needs with the Tonal Balance Bundle, a collection of software that conveniently assembles several of iZotope's flagship products. Process all your vocals with Nectar 3 Plus. Mix the rest of your session with Neutron 3 Advanced, and when you're nearing the end of the project, use Ozone 9 Advanced to get a professionally polished mastered product, all while metering with Tonal Balance Control 2.
Available for download, iZotope Ozone 9 Advanced is software designed for mastering music, providing many modules for the task. The software builds upon the offerings of previous iterations with visual improvements, CPU optimizing, new modules, and new assistive options. The software allows you to create masters of your music in an intuitive, user-friendly manner.
Take the Master Rebalance Module, for instance. With tech borrowed from RX 7, this module intelligently grabs your bass, drums, or vocal parts and brings them up and down in level, depending on your settings. Now, you may not need to contact the mixing engineer when the bass part isn't loud enough—you can simply raise it up yourself.
Another new offering is the Low End Focus module, which uses proprietary processes to help you secure impact, translation, and a distinct absence of mud in the low end of your masters. Use this module to help the kick and bass play nicely together in a stereo track.
You'll note that Match EQ has been broken out into its own module. It now sports more controls to help you get the most out of this process in every part of the frequency spectrum.
You'll find the Vintage mode in the Master Assistant useful, as it applies colorful strokes in the mastering process. Use the traditional Master Assistant to get you to the level you wish as transparently as possible, or choose the Vintage mode if the mix needs some more weight, vibe, or color. Then, tweak from there.
Included with Ozone 9 Advanced is an upgrade to the Tonal Balance Control plug-in. Tonal Balance Control 2 now comes with a far greater number of presets than the first version. It also lets you solo each individual band to home in on frequency issues.
As with the previous version, you'll find a reference section to load in your favorite referencing tracks. You'll also find dither options and be able to audition how the master sounds through various lossy codecs.
Other tweaks have been made to existing modules under the hood, including performance enhancements, and, in the case of the Imager module, increased sonic transparency. You can now resize the GUI at will. This being the advanced version, you can break out any module you wish into its own plug-in, so if you only want to use the Master Rebalance function, you needn't load the whole suite.
The software is compatible with Mac and Windows platforms in AU, VST2, VST3, and AAX formats. It's now compatible with NKS supported environments as well.
Polish your vocals to a professional sheen with iZotope Nectar 3 Plus, a downloadable plug-in designed for vocal mixing and production. Everything you need to process the human voice is here, from high-quality equalizers and compressors to modulation and time-based effects. No longer will you need to break out a vocal into parallel tracks or aux returns—now you can do it all in one intuitive yet powerful interface.
Nectar 3 Plus is a revamped version of Nectar 3, a plug-in venerated among top pros and aspiring amateurs alike for its ease of use and for its studio-quality sound. Chief among the improvements is an upgraded Virtual Assistant. Like many iZotope plug-ins, this software can analyze incoming audio and generate a custom-tweaked starting point for your mix. Nectar 3 Plus improves the Unmask Mode of the Virtual Assistant, giving you more control over how your vocal sits in the overall mix. Also, RX 8 Breath Control is now included, alongside Melodyne 4 Essentials for pitch correction.
- Shape your tracks with a comprehensive drag-and-drop EQ, one which can follow the harmonics in a vocal to automatically tamp down resonances or emphasize pleasant parts of the voice. This EQ can also be used in a dynamic mode for creative or tone-correcting effects.
- Balance your vocal level without pumping or other compression artifacts thanks to an exceedingly natural auto-level, which rides the vocal in a ±3 dB range of your selected target.
- De-ess your vocals transparently with the De-esser module.
- Add character-enhancing or dynamics-taming compression with a dedicated compression module, which has several selectable modes to model vintage or modern hardware.
- Gate out extraneous noise with the gate.
- Use subtle automatic pitch correction, or dive in deeper with Melodyne 4 Essentials, included with Nectar 3 Plus.
- Control stray breaths with RX 8's Breath Control Module.
- The Dimension module provides chorus, flanging, and more.
- Reverb and Delay modules offer exciting and tweakable time-based effects.
- The Harmony module offers the ability to add up to 8 voices of harmony, which can be pitched up or down, at Unison for double tracking effects, or played through MIDI. The Harmony mode offers modulation over the pitch and speed of the additional harmonies, and you can pan them all on an easy-to-read GUI.
- Add harmonic excitement to the vocals with Saturation.
Neutron 3 Advanced represents the next step forward in iZotope's channel-strip plug-ins, giving you the ability to balance your entire session in three clicks with the new Mix Assistant. As with previous iterations, you get an equalizer, a compressor, a transient shaper, an exciter, and other goodies from Neutron 2. But iZotope has brought a new module into the mix as well—a sweetening, tone-shaping module called Sculptor.
The modules offered in version 2 have been optimized to take as little CPU as possible. The GUI has seen an overhaul with a resizeable window as well as better control of the sliders than Version 2. The Masking Meter, which helps you identify and fix competing frequencies between two tracks, is now elegantly compacted into one, easy-to-understand window, with essential parameters like inverse link more readily available.
The most prominent additions to the Neutron platform are Mix Assistant and Sculptor. Through plug-in communication, the Mix Assistant can listen to all of the tracks in your mix and give you a static starting point. Use it at the beginning of the process: Simply place Neutron 3 or Relay on every track of your mix, run the Mix Assistant, choose the most prominent tracks when prompted (i.e., the vocal in a pop tune), and let Neutron handle all the busywork so you can get to the fun stuff.
Sculptor, on the other hand, is a sweetening, finalizing module that applies a comprehensive EQ, one that fluctuates in real-time, reacting to the track as it plays. It makes multiple dynamic choices per second. Use it to add both final polish and a creative emphasis to any track.
Neutron 3 Advanced is compatible with Mac and Windows computers and is available for download. It works in AU, AAX, and VST formats.
- Visual Mixer and iZotope Relay: Launch Mix Assistant directly from the Visual Mixer and move your tracks in a virtual space, tapping into iZotope-enabled inter-plug-in communication.
- New EQ Functionality: EQ now has a Soft Saturation mode for a more analog feel and sound.
- Tonal Balance Control: Updated to support Neutron 3 to further help you shape a balanced mix.
- 7.1 Surround Sound Support: 7.1 Surround and zero-latency mode in all 8 modules for professional, lightweight processing for audio post or surround music mixes.
Available for download, iZotope Tonal Balance Control 2 is metering software designed for mixing and mastering music. It is designed to show you vital information about your mix's frequency profile, and to help guide you to a frequency target that best matches your genre.
Load up a genre or style from the Preset menu and see how your program material compares. If you want, you can also load individual songs or entire albums from your collection into the plug-in to be analyzed for comparison. Two viewing options are on hand: a finer view, and a more detailed view, for helping you see how you compare to your references. You can solo bass, middle, and treble ranges to hear them independently. A crest-factor meter tied to the low end shows how compressed your bass information is by measuring and displaying the peak-to-average ratio of low-end elements.
New to Tonal Balance Control 2 is inter-plug-in communication with other iZotope products. You can now tweak instances of Neutron, Ozone, and Relay within Tonal Balance Control 2, so you that you can correct issues within your mix from the same GUI you're using to meter. Tonal Balance Control 2 is compatible with Mac and Windows platforms. It will operate within AU, VST2, VST3, and AAX plug-in formats.