DISC iZotope Ozone 11 Advanced

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What's new in Ozone 11 Advanced

• Clarity:
  • Effortlessly unlock crisp and detailed masters, elevating the spectral power of your music. Effectively pulling the blanket off your music, Clarity lets you get polished and louder mixes without having to utilise complex EQ movements manually. A lot of music producers have a hard time creating a professional and clear sound. Enter the Clarity module. The Clarity module uses a psychoacoustic algorithm to adaptively optimise the spectral power of your music, unmasking background elements and letting you perceive more information within the music. This helps to unravel dull-sounding mixes that have been mixed on poor equipment or in less-than-ideal room conditions, or by inexperienced engineers and producers, without ever sounding harsh.
• Stem Focus:
  • For mastering professionals, Stem Focus lets you rescue problematic mixes in ways that were previously impossible but are now possible with AI Stem Focus integration. When applying modules in iZotope Ozone 11 Advanced, instead of applying across the entire audio file, Stem Focus enables you to apply the processing to vocals, drums or bass without affecting the rest of the mix. A powerful tool, this allows you to enhance and correct nasal-sounding vocal recordings seamlessly, without interfering with snare drums, synthesizers or guitars which may occupy a similar sonic territory. Mix revisions just became a thing of the past!
• Transient / Sustain Mode:
  • Adding a new dimension to audio processing, Transient / Sustain lets you enhance your masters with a musical punch and sustain. Added to 10 different modules with Ozone 11 Advanced, you can implement it to the Imaging module, widening the transients across of your drums the stereo field in a musical way. Alternatively, take the Exciter module and apply the saturation to the sustain portion of the signal, letting the transients come through cleanly, with long and musical sustain following.
• Assistive Vocal Balance:
  • Find the sweet spot of your vocals with the Assistive Vocal Balance module. By studying hundreds of leading songs, the Master Assistant has gained the expertise to optimally position vocals within the mix. Couple this with the newly introduced AI Vocal Checker, and you can bid farewell to concerns over levels.
• Upward Compressor:
  • Integrated into the Maximizer module, the Upward Compressor mode lets you make mixes loud, whilst preserving the dynamics of your track with unparalleled accuracy. Boost quiet sections while preserving fast transients with the Soft Clip circuit, a transparent compression circuit. Increase density and detail with one intuitive slider that replaces complex parallel routing, gain-staging, and level-matching.

Additional enhancements

In addition to more modules, improvements across the interface and user workflow has been implemented with Ozone 11 Advanced. Delta Buttons lets you make subtle mastering moves across all modules by letting you monitor the processing in isolation to hear how it's affecting your audio.

Master Assistant has been updated to solve the most common problems associated with beginner mixes, such as imbalanced vocals against the music. Whether too loud or too quiet, Master Assistant is able to balance mixes with extreme accuracy, applying all the necessary modules required to get a clean and balanced master nearly instantly. All of this has been implemented into a newly designed layout for an even easier user experience for producers and engineers at all ability levels.

To get the most from your mastering session, the interface has been updated, letting you intuitively dial in the Low End Focus, Spectral Shaper and Maximizer, along with improved metering for the input and output loudness levels.

Your complete module toolkit

• EQ: Control the finer details of your sound utilising classic analog or modern digital modes with accurate and fluid metering and new HUD controls in mid/side, stereo or mono modes.
• Impact: Control the micro dynamics of your track with multi-band control and musical envelope controls to enhance the rhythm and feel of your music.
• Stabilizer: Sculpt your sound with intelligent and adaptive EQ, utilising automatic resonance suppression and tonal balancing.
• Imager: Build the stereo field of your master by enhancing narrow recordings with natural stereo width or optimising mono information with multi-band operation.
• Master Rebalance: Real-time control over adjusting the volume of drums, vocals, bass or any full recorded and bounced mix.
• Low End Focus: Get punchy and crystal-clear low end without the unwanted artefacts of compression and EQ
• Spectral Shaper: Remove the harshness with Light, Medium and Heavy settings for different flavours and listen in isolation with Listen Mode for pinpoint accuracy.
• Dynamic EQ: Make precise adjustments to your EQ curve which moves with the dynamic response of your audio with dynamic thresholds.
• Exciter: Mix and match between seven distortion types for warmth and character including Tape, Retro and Tube.
• Dynamics: Tame the dynamics of your mix for consistency in up to four bands.
• Match EQ: Match your EQ to any reference audio with over 8,000 separate bands for unparalleled precision and accuracy.
• Vintage Series: Includes Tape, Compressor, Limiter and EQ to inject vintage analog flavour to your masters.

Master assistant

The unique Master Assistant will analyse your track and build a custom signal chain for precise and effortless mastering. Master Assistants can take complete control of the mastering process with groundbreaking matching technology. By analysing and identifying the genre of your song, Ozone's master assistant will generate a target and match the tonal balance, dynamics, width, and loudness of your mix. Alternatively, create a custom target by uploading a reference file and the Master Assistant will determine the same parameters to match your mix. A reference file can be any song of your choice, otherwise, review and toggle between options generated from the latest chart hit in each genre.

Assistant view

See and make precise adjustments to your mastered mix with the assistant view interface. Utilising tonal balance metering, a vectorscope, scrolling gain reduction trace, destination selection, and powerful control parameters, you can monitor and dial in the mastering assistant to your taste. Furthermore, EQ and Stabilizer sliders let you find a comfortable personalised result between your audio and the selected target. The Assistant view puts you back in control of the automatic mastering process while keeping things intuitive, streamlined, and effective.

Reviews

"There are multiple instances of Ozone on every Infrasonic rig. We've been tried and true users of Ozone for years. That being said, we were BLOWN away by Ozone 11. Ozone 11 has every bit of functionality you could want. Between the new Maximizer, Low End Focus, and Stabilizer, what else could you ask for?" - Pete Lyman (Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Bradi Carlile, Sturgill Simpson)

"Ozone is the salt in my mix. Enhancing each individual element’s flavour in a natural and transparent manner." - Jon Castelli (SZA, Lil Nas X, The Kid Laroi, Harry Styles)

“Embracing the power of Ozone 11 has truly been a game-changer for me. This remarkable tool has not only enhanced the quality of my projects but has also ignited my creativity in ways I never thought possible. I can now sculpt soundscapes and bring my artistic vision to life.” - Chris Gehringer (Dua Lipa, Rihanna, Drake, Lady Gaga)

Features

• New modules include Stem Focus, Clarity, Transient / Sustain Mode, Assistive Vocal Balance and Upward Compressor
• Delta buttons across all modules let you monitor the effect of your processing in isolation
• Improved Low-End Focus and Spectral Shaper interface design
• Improved EQ design with spectrum tilt and grid monitoring
• Improved Maximizer design with Upward Compressor mode
• Improved Master Assistant results to optimise the typical issues faced with beginner mixes
• All modules are available as a separate plug-in to use independently outside of Ozone 11 Advanced
• Stabilizer module for clarity
• Impact module for musical movement
• Maximizer module to boost loudness while maintaining quality
• Imager module to recover sides
• Rebalance bounced mixes with more control than ever with AI-powered modules and analysis
• Get clear and punchy low frequencies with Low-End Focus
• Control the fine details of your sound with Equalizer
• Add polish and remove harshness with Spectral Shaper
• Make EQ boosts and cuts that respond to the dynamics of your audio with Dynamic EQ
• Mix and match seven distortions with Exciter
• Tame dynamics and give tracks energy
• Introduce rich saturation with Vintage Tape
• Glue your mix together with Vintage Limiter
• Brighten your master and add body to your digital recordings with Vintage EQ
• Add colourful dynamics with Vintage Compressor
• Hear how your mix sounds in different formats with Codec Preview
• Utilise an extensive suite of dithering options

Specifications

• Operating system:
  • Mac: macOS Monterey (12.6.8), macOS Ventura (13.5) - Supported on Intel Macs and Apple silicon Macs (Apple M-series chips) in Rosetta 2 & native
  • Windows: Windows 10, Windows 11
• Format:
  • Mac: AU, AAX, or VST3 (64-bit)
  • Windows: AAX or VST3 (64-bit)
• Product code: 1124-631