RX Post Production Suite 8.5

Next-Generation Tools for Post-Production

Groundbreaking Post-Production Tools you’ll use in Every Session

RX Post Production Suite 8.5 gives you the tools you need to fix noisy production audio, bring stories to life, and send final deliverables at the right specifications, including RX 11 Advanced, Neutron 4 Advanced, Dialogue Match, Insight 2, Symphony 3D and Stratus 3D surround reverbs by Exponential Audio, and more.

What's Included?

• RX 11 Advanced: The award-winning audio repair suite trusted by leading post-production engineers who need to quickly and reliably prepare audio for professional release.
• Neutron 5: The complete suite for crafting a professional mix, allowing you to mix smarter while staying in your flow.
• Dialogue Match: Transfer the EQ, reverb, and ambience profile of one dialogue recording to another for seamless audio continuity in post.
• Nectar 4 Advanced: The most powerful audio plugin for vocal production, polish, and mixing. Nectar 3 Plus also includes industry-class pitch correction with Melodyne 5 Essential.
• Tonal Balance Control 2: Make mixes that translate to any listening environment with Tonal Balance Control 2, a plugin that helps keep music of any genre on target.
• Relay: This utility plug-in allows you to control the level, panning, and stereo image of your tracks, and also enables the track to communicate with other Inter-plug-in Communication-enabled plug-ins.
• Insight 2: An extensive audio analysis and metering tool that provides you with visual information about your mix with multichannel support for Dolby Atmos 7.1.2.
• Symphony 3D: Bring lush, character-filled reverb for surround and immersive formats to any post-production or music project.
• Stratus 3D: With more than 1,700 surround presets, up to 24-channel support, and intelligent multi-channel reverb controls, you can craft the perfect depth and dimension in your sound environments with Stratus 3D.

RX 11 Advanced

The Smart Solution for Clear Audio

iZotope RX is the industry trailblazer for intelligent audio repair and enhancement. Powered by machine learning technology, RX’s comprehensive suite of tools tackles everything from common audio problems to the trickiest of sonic rescues, for both music and audio post production. The result? Clean, clear, and compelling sound.

Time and time again, RX has introduced groundbreaking features that solve the unsolvable – earning major awards that include two Engineering Emmy Awards and a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The quick and reliable “magic” of RX is trusted by audio professionals working across film, TV, music, podcasts, video games, and content of all types. 

RX is available as a standalone audio editing application that includes a suite of software plugins for use with digital audio workstations (DAWs). 

What's New in RX 11?

With RX 11, iZotope introducing new state-of-the-art neural networks that supercharge our machine learning algorithms, enabling real-time, low latency processing for Dialogue Isolate, the highest quality stem separation for Music Rebalance, and improved intelligence and speed for Repair Assistant. We’ve also added an industry-first Loudness Optimize tool alongside the new Streaming Preview so you can release tracks in confidence, major upgrades to our Audio Random Access (ARA) processing for a seamless workflow, and additional ARA host support (coming soon!).

Additional Enhancements

• Make smoother edits with improved Selection Feathering, which now also works in the frequency domain.
• iZotope's surround reverbs, Stratus and Symphony 3D by Exponential Audio, have been updated to run natively on M1 Apple Silicon Macs and feature a refreshed look.

Features

• NEW AND IMPROVED Dialogue Isolate – We’ve overhauled Dialogue Isolate, adding in Dialogue De-reverb and state-of-the art machine learning that enables lightning-fast (real time) processing. Now you can de-noise dialogue or vocals and control reverb in one easy-to-use module. The Advanced version includes a brand new highest-quality offline processing mode and multi-band processing.
• NEW Streaming Preview – There’s no worse feeling than putting heaps of time into a track only to be disappointed with how it sounds on streaming services. That’s where the new Streaming Preview comes in. Now you can hear your tracks the way the rest of the world will hear them and release with confidence.
• NEW Loudness Optimize – Tracks still sounding quiet at maximum loudness? Analyze any opportunity for improvement with the smart Learn function and automatically adjust your tracks with Loudness Optimize. Just export your new master and you’re ready for release.
• IMPROVED Music Rebalance – Easily reanimate an existing mix, prep for a remix, or create instrumentals and vocal stems with Music Rebalance. Shape your sound with laser focus thanks to Music Rebalance’s improved stem separation, featuring upgraded machine learning based on the most modern neural network available.
• IMPROVED Repair Assistant – Clean up tracks faster than ever with enhanced precision. Polish dialogue and sung vocals with ease thanks to new machine learning tech, and make final tweaks with deeper controls. The next generation Repair Assistant goes from trusty helper to lifesaver.
• IMPROVED Dialogue Contour – Adjust the character and expressivity of a voice with new levels of control in Dialogue Contour, ensuring that dialogue edits flow seamlessly. Take care of Frankenbites with ease, no matter how many takes you need to stitch together for a perfect delivery.
• NEW Mid/Side Mode – Visualize and process your stereo image with new Mid/Side mode in RX’s main window.
• NEW Audio Devices Refresh – Refresh audio devices in preferences without having to quit and restart RX.

Learn more about RX 11 Advanced.

Neutron 5

Bring out the best in your mix

A flexible, fully equipped suite of world-class intelligent mixing tools for all workflows and skill levels.

Bring out the best in your mix with Neutron 5, a flexible, fully-equipped suite of 10 intelligent tools. Add power while reclaiming headroom with the multiband Clipper module, give your audio more presence, detail, and fullness with intuitive upward compression in the new Density module, and fix tedious phase issues with the Phase module.

Shape your sound faster with the improved Mix Assistant, precisely target your processing with mid/side and transient/sustain channel modes across the Neutron suite, and make more informed decisions with beautiful, refreshed visualizations. Achieve the mix you’re imagining, whether it’s your first mix or your next big hit.

Features

• New! A suite of 11 plugins | Neutron 5 now comes with 11 plugins, including a mothership and 10 components. Use the component plugins individually or combine them in the mothership plugin chain to sculpt your sound.
• New! Powerful peak control | The new Clipper module adds power and reclaims headroom with intuitive multiband options, oversampling, and channel modes.
• New! Solidify your sound | The new Density module performs intelligent upward compression to give your audio more presence, detail, and fullness.
• New! Unfazed by phase issues | The new Phase module fixes asymmetrical waveforms and out-of-sync signals in seconds, keeping your audio clean and full.
• New! New dimensions | Mid/side and transient/sustain channel modes across the suite let you use Neutron modules on the specific content that needs processing.
• New! Hear the difference | Make more informed decisions with Delta buttons in every module, letting you hear exactly how Neutron is affecting your mix.
• Improved! Shape your tracks in seconds | Refined processing and additional macro knobs in the Assistant View make it even easier to fine-tune your custom signal chain from Mix Assistant.
• Improved! See the difference | Neutron’s updated visualizations are now even clearer, easier to understand, and more customizable, letting you dial-in your settings with confidence.
• Improved! New Neutron, new feel | Neutron 5 feels polished and professional with a new design, featuring updated controls, improvements to the Assistant View, and a refreshed color palette.
• Mix in the moment | Powered by machine learning, Mix Assistant sets a custom signal chain for your specific audio, saving time for creative mixing choices. 
• Match references in real time | Dynamically match the tone of your track to a sample or stem using the Target Library with intelligent tone matching technology.
• Neutron 4 fan-favorites | Neutron 5 packs powerful modules from version 4, including Unmask, Sculptor, Transient Shaper, Exciter (with Trash Mode), Gate, Compressor (with Punch Mode and Sidechain metering), and Equalizer.
• Balance Assistant | Automatically set levels before you even touch a fader, using Relay on individual tracks and Visual Mixer on your master channel.
• Visual Mixer & iZotope Relay plugins | Launch Balance Assistant directly from Visual Mixer and position your tracks in a virtual space, tapping into iZotope inter-plugin communication.
• Tonal Balance Control 2 plugin | Meter while you mix to shape balanced levels based on tens-of-thousands of professional mixes.
• 7.1 Surround sound support and zero-latency mode in all 7 modules for professional, lightweight processing for audio post or surround music mixes. 
• Beautiful, smooth visualizations and a resizable interface invite you to step in and take control.
• Improved performance | Neutron is compatible with Apple silicon native (M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max) chips for faster processing.

Learn more about Neutron 5.

Dialogue Match

The first tool of its kind, Dialogue Match introduces all-new iZotope reverb matching technology - developed in collaboration with Exponential Audio founder and renowned reverb expert Michael Carnes - and leverages iZotope's acclaimed ambience and EQ matching tech, allowing you to apply the sonic attributes of one recording directly onto another. In other words, Dialogue Match gives your scenes astonishing environmental and spatial continuity with just two clicks. Prepare to get more work done better and faster, and change the way you approach dialogue editing forever.

Learn more about Dialogue Match.

Nectar 4 Advanced

Let Your Vocals Shine

Mix, produce, and design vocals effortlessly with Nectar 4 Advanced. Achieve consistent and well-balanced vocals with the Auto-Level Module, easily create vocal layers with the Voices Module, add artificial background singers with the Backer Module, and make impactful edits through Vocal Assistant’s intuitive interface. Plus, dive into a suite of powerful plugins for complete control over your vocal sound. Take your vocal productions to the next level with Nectar 4 Advanced.

Modules

Auto-Level Module 

• Access the Auto-Leveler conveniently through the new mini-Module view, which provides essential vocal controls regardless of your location in Nectar's interface. 
• The new Tame Noise feature actively adjusts non-sung vocal elements, ensuring consistent and balanced vocals. 
• Fine-tune the Mix, Strength, and Range parameters of Auto-Level for precise control over your vocal signal. 
• Employ Sidechain Mode to align the volume level of another track in your mix with your vocals.

Voices Module

• Choose from a selection of 11 auto-harmonies to discover the perfect fit for your desired style. 
• Engage MIDI mode to precisely control voices with the specific notes you need. 
• Explore the robust editor to customize the number of voices and the chords they sing in your music. 
• Adjust the range of your voices using the Direction control, allowing them to sing above or below your main vocal. 
• Easily manage and manipulate each voice with the Mixer View, providing intuitive control over the soundstage of your vocal production.

Backer Module 

• Shift your vocals to eight different styles to create different backup singers.
• Create your own style with a reference target.
• Blend your backup singers with Tone, Pitch, and Formant features so you can sit your tracks behind your lead vocal.
• Completely control shifting and style selection with automation, allowing you to create movement throughout your track.

Vocal Assistant 

• Choose from various targets in your library to instantly achieve the desired sound.
• Import a custom reference track, and Vocal Assistant will match its tone.
• Make impactful decisions regarding EQ, intensity, and width to shape your vocal's sound.
• Seamlessly blend vocal effects like dimension, reverb, and delay.
• Utilize Vocal Assistant's page to layer, shift, and pitch your vocals for added movement and depth.

13 Component Plugins

• Integrate 13 powerful vocal plugins into your vocal chain templates.
• Utilize Pitch Tracking and Dynamic EQ to achieve a balanced vocal that fits seamlessly into your mix.
• Employ Pitch, Backer, and Voices FX to create powerful layers and shifted effects in your vocal chain.
• Enhance your vocal production with Reverb, Delay, Saturation, and Dimension FX, adding character, depth, and movement.
• Take control of your dynamics with the De-esser, Compressor, Gate, Auto-Leveler, and Breath Control plugins, whether it's sung vocals or spoken material.

Audiolens Referencing

• Use Audiolens to reference any audio from any source and kickstart your vocal processing with Nectar's Vocal Assistant.
• Benefit from Audiolens' new separation technology to match the tone of any vocal, providing you with a target to aim for.
• Create a library of custom reference targets within Nectar's Vocal Assistant, making it convenient to access your references in any session.

Celemony Melodyne 5 Essential

Nectar 4 offers an additional advantage with its built-in pitch correction Module by partnering with Celemony to include Melodyne 5 Essential. Melodyne is a GRAMMY-award winning pitch and time correction tool, known for its precise and intuitive capabilities that are widely used in professional studios worldwide.

Perfect Balance

Nectar 4 provides two specialized 24-band Dynamic EQs specifically designed for vocals. These Dynamic EQs offer transparent and clear processing, catering to both corrective and creative tasks. They feature adaptive nodes for precise frequency shaping and pitch tracking. With the Follow EQ mode, the Dynamic EQs dynamically track the pitch, eliminating the manual editing of resonant frequencies and harmonics. This enables active control over the timbre and tone of the vocals.

Features

• Vocal Assistant: Instantly create custom presets using machine learning technology to optimize your vocal's fit in the mix.
• Improved Unmask: Easily prioritize your vocal by reducing competing mix elements directly from the Vocal Assistant's menu screen.
• Dynamic EQ with Follow EQ Mode: Real-time tracking and removal of troublesome resonances, saving time and effort.
• Auto Level Module: Automatically adjusts vocal levels before processing, eliminating the need for corrective dynamics or manual fader adjustments.
• Inter-plugin Communication: Nectar 4 communicates with other iZotope plug-ins in your session to address tonal balance and masking.
• Thirteen Component Plugins: Comprehensive set of vocal-focused production and mixing tools, including dynamic EQs, auto-level, backer, breath control, compression, voices, pitch, de-esser, saturation, reverb, gate, and dimension.

Also Included

• Nectar 4 Breath Control Plugin: Reduces unwanted breaths without compromising audio quality.
• Melodyne 5 Essential: Award-winning time and pitch correction software.
• iZotope Relay: Central hub for intelligent connection between your entire mix and iZotope plug-in collection.
• Hundreds of Professionally-designed presets: Preconfigured settings for music and dialogue applications.

Learn more about Nectar 4 Advanced.

Melodyne 5 Essential

The Easy Way to Begin

With Melodyne 5 Essential, you edit your vocals using the basic functions for pitch and timing. Musical, quick and easy.

Melodyne heightens its core competence. The “Melodic” algorithm used for vocals can now distinguish the unpitched, noise-like components of a note – i.e. voiceless consonants (such as sibilants like “s”) and breath sounds – from its pitched components. Even when they coincide. And although all pitch and timing changes are implemented in a tried-and-tested manner as far as the pitched components are concerned, different rules that emulate accurately the natural behavior of the human voice govern the handling of sibilants. So now when you are working with Melodyne, you obtain the highest possible sound quality and most natural-sounding results automatically.

Features

• Grammy Award-winning technology.
• Exceptionally musical and intuitive note-based way of working.
• The algorithms Melodic (with Sibilant Detection), Percussive and Universal.
• Melodyne's Main Tool for editing pitch and timing.
• The Chord Track and Chord Grid with automatic chord recognition.
• Full compatibility: VST 3, AU, AAX, stand-alone.
• Integration via ARA Audio Random Access (depending on the DAW).

Learn more Nectar 3 Plus.

Insight 2

Insight 2 is a core component of award-winning post-production and music studios, and it helps you achieve that pro-sound. This comprehensive metering and audio analysis plug-in is perfect for any post-production, music, or broadcast application. 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. Keep an eye as well as an ear on your mix at all times with Insight 2.

Features

• Updated look and feel
• Re-designed to be easier to use
• Current loudness standards
• Multichannel support up to Dolby Atmos 7.1.2
• Ensure that dialogue is clear in the mix with the Intelligibility Meter
• Resize the meters and windows as small or large as wanted
• Coloured warnings available for Level meters
• Expanded inter-plugin communication with iZotope Relay

Learn more about Insight 2.

Exponential Audio Symphony 3D

iZotope's lush, colourful reverb engine gets a 24-channel upgrade in Symphony 3D, bringing rich modulation and dynamics effects to any surround music or post-production. With channel-specific Balance controls and an expanded Warp section with Compression and Overdrive modules, Symphony 3D combines the creative power of R4 and R2 Surround while pushing their capabilities even further.

Symphony 3D is Exponential Audio’s flagship reverb offering. The character reverb engine of Symphony receives 24-channel surround support, making it perfect for crafting distinct, captivating spatial effects for any multichannel music or post projects. With independent parameter modules for the Attack, Early Reflections and Tail of your reverb signal, plus channel-specific Balance controls and creative modulation and dynamics effects, no other reverb plug-in gives you this much control over your multichannel reflections.

Learn more about Symphony 3D.

Exponential Audio Stratus 3D

Create immersive surround environments with unrivalled clarity using Stratus 3D. With up to 24-channel support, over 1,700 surround presets, and intelligent multichannel reverb controls, use Stratus 3D to get just the right amount of depth and dimension in any post-production job.

With the growing prevalence of immersive surround formats like Atmos, Auro, and beyond, there are more sonic possibilities for visual media than ever before. Stratus 3D is the perfect reverb engine for these new production formats. Aside from producing reflections with stunning clarity for up to 24-channel surround, Stratus 3D provides you with precise parameter controls to help you shape and refine the perfect spatial tone, channel by channel. Independent input, early reflection, and reverb tail EQ filters let you decide which parts of the reflections are most present in the mix, so you control the resulting tone of your reverb on every level.

Learn more about Stratus 3D.

RX 11 Advanced System Requirements

Operating Systems:

• Mac: macOS Catalina (10.15.7) - macOS Monterey (12.5.x) (Intel / M1 Apple Silicon Macs supported natively and via Rosetta 2)
• Windows: Windows 10 - Windows 11

Plugin Formats:

• AU, AAX, AAX Audiosuite, VST3, AU ARA (Spectral Editor ARA & Music Rebalance ARA)*.
• * All plug-in formats are 64-bit only. VST2 is no longer supported.

Supported Hosts (DAWs and NLES):

• Logic Pro 10.6.3 - 10.7.x, Pro Tools 2021 - 2022, Ableton Live 11, Cubase 11 - 12, Nuendo 12, Studio One 5, Reaper 6, FL Studio 20, Audition CC 2022, Premiere Pro CC 2022

RX 11 Audio Editor: Plugin Hosting

• AU and VST2 plug-ins can be hosted in the RX Audio Editor

Note: VST2 plug-in hosting will be deprecated and replaced with VST3 plug-in hosting in a future RX 11 patch.

Neutron 5 System Requirements

Operating Systems

• Mac: macOS Ventura (13.6) or higher (Apple silicon Macs supported natively) (64-bit only)
• Windows: Windows 10-11 (64-bit only)

Plugin Formats

• AU (Mac only), AAX, VST3 (All formats 64-bit only)
• Please note: VST2 is no longer supported

Dialogue Match System Requirements

Mac

• OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan - macOS 11 Big Sur (Intel-based Apple computers only (not yet ARM)
• AAX AudioSuite* (64-bit only)

PC

• Windows 7 - Windows 10
• AAX AudioSuite* (64-bit only)

Supported Hosts:

• Pro Tools 11.3.1P - Pro Tools Ultimate 2019.10

Important Note: Dialogue Match is only available as an AudioSuite for current versions of Pro Tools for offline processing. It is not currently supported for use in Media Composer, or any host application other than Pro Tools 11 or later.

Nectar 4

• Mac: macOS 12.6 Monterey - macOS 13.5.x Monterey (Apple silicon Macs supported natively)
• Windows: Windows 10 – Windows 11

Plugin Formats:

• AU, AAX, VST2, VST3.
• Note: All plug-in formats are 64-bit only.

Supported Hosts:

• Logic Pro X, Ableton Live 9-10.1, Pro Tools 12.8-2020.5, Cubase 9.5-10.5, FL Studio 20.6, Studio One 5, Reason 10, REAPER 6, Bitwig Studio 2-3

Melodyne 5 Essential

• macOS - Intel Dual Core processor (Quad Core or better recommended) or Apple Silicon processor. 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended).  macOS 10.12 or higher. 
• Windows - Intel or AMD Dual Core processor (Quad Core or better recommended), 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended), Windows 10 - 11 (64-bit recommended), ASIO-compatible audio hardware.
• Activation - Computer-based or iLok USB dongle (2nd or 3rd generation), Melodyne 5 essential only computer-based. Internet access is required for activation.
• Interfaces - Plugin operation via VST3, AU or AAX. ARA integration with compatible DAWs

Insight 2 System Requirements

Mac 

• OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan - macOS 11 Big Sur (Intel-based Apple computers only (not yet ARM)
• AAX (64-bit), AU, RTAS (32-bit), VST, VST3

PC 

• Windows 7 - Windows 10
• AAX (64-bit), RTAS (32-bit), VST, VST3

Supported Hosts:

• Ableton Live 9 - 10, Cubase 9.5 - 10, Digital Performer 9, FL Studio 12, Logic Pro X, Nuendo 8, Pro Tools 10 - 2018, Reaper 5, Reason 10, Studio One 3 - 4

Symphony 3D & Stratus 3D System Requirements

Operating Systems:

• Mac: Mac OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion - macOS 10.15 Catalina
• Windows: Windows 7 - Windows 10

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: Multicore processor, 2 GHz or greater
• RAM: 4 GB or greater
• Display: 1440 x 900 or greater

Plugin Formats:

• AAX, AU, VST, VST3 (all formats 64-bit only)

Channel Formats:

• Mono, Stereo, LCR, LCRS, Quad, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1, SDDS

Authorization:

• iLok License Manager required
• iLok2, iLok3, or iLok Machine License
• Exponential Audio products are not available in iZotope’s Product Portal

Important Note: Symphony 3D and Stratus 3D are NOT compatible with Logic Pro X.