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Modern. Intelligent. Your complete mixing suite.
Mix smarter and faster with iZotope’s Neutron 4, your complete suite for crafting a professional mix.
Sculpt sounds seamless while staying in your flow. Mix in the moment.
What’s new in iZotope’s Neutron 4?
Assistant View - Mix in the moment
Neutron’s beloved AI-powered audio Assistant is now modernized into the new Assistant View, your intelligent control centre that produces fast, personalized results. Powered by machine learning, the Assistant View starts listening as soon as you play audio, producing a reference starting point and taking you to an intelligent control centre where you can use the Intent Controls to make big sonic improvements. Dial-in punch, distortion and width to taste before jumping into the Detail View to fine-tune. This is your Mix Assistant, but even faster and more flexible.
Target Library - Magically match references
Match references in real-time. Like magic. Dynamically match the tone of your track to a sample or stem using the new Target Library with tone matching technology. Communicate your intent to Neutron by loading stem references into your Target Library to enable the Assistant to match your drums, bass, guitar, vocal, or audio track to the sound you are going for. Borrow from iZotope's presets, or build your own with stems, sounds, and acapellas for every situation.
Unmask Module - Make space
Neutron 4 discovers and fixes masking issues for you, enabling you to reach new levels of clarity. The new Unmask Module makes space between two competing tracks, balancing your bass and kick or allowing vocals to shine over your mix. Unmask from a track or bus in your DAW, then adjust levels to reach your optimal balance. It’s simple to set up and fixes muddy mixes in seconds.
Trash Mode (In Exciter Module) - Distort responsibly. Or not
A slice of fan favorite Trash is now in Neutron 4. Distort and destroy sounds with Trash Mode allowing you to discover new extremes by blending between different textures. Curate character changes with the new Tone Slider to explore the boundaries of weird and wild. Distort responsibly with the Tame button to preserve dynamic expression as you destroy.
Punch Mode (in Compressor Module) - Punch it up
Make an impact using the new Punch Mode to control and visualize how hard your sounds hit. Add more thump, punch or snap to breathe life into vocals, percussion, bass, and more. Choose from Punch Mode, Modern Mode or Vintage Mode to easily manipulate microdynamics.
Additional Enhancements
Improved UI look and feel
Neutron 4 has a new look, designed to jumpstart your mixing process. With new panels featuring Intent Control, you can jump right in to make both corrective and creative changes. Toggle between the Assistant View and to the Detail View to customize your workflow.
Sidechain metering in the Compressor Module
See your sound, scope your sidechain. The perfect sidechain? It’s now within reach. Visualize your dynamics with the new Oscilloscope View in Neutron’s Compressor. Use the Oscilloscope View after setting up your sidechain to see your sound as you dial in y our perfect sound. You’ve heard compression. Now see it, too.
Improved performance
Neutron 4 is compatible with Apple silicon native (M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max) chips for faster processing.
Learn more about Neutron 4.
Let Your Vocals Shine
Achieve professional-quality vocals effortlessly with Nectar 4 Standard. This comprehensive vocal mixing tool provides an easy-to-use set of features for mixing, producing, and designing vocals.
What’s new in iZotope Nectar 4 Standard?
Reference Any Voice
Audiolens is compatible with Nectar 4 Standard, allowing you to tone-match any vocal sound. Separate the vocal from your reference track and gain valuable information to create a starting point for your mix.
In Sweet Harmony
Instant, easy vocal layers: the Voices Module gives you the ability to create complicated layers for your vocal production without needing to learn voice-leading and harmonic motion. Find a preset similar to your desired sound, then tweak it to your liking.
Who’s Backing You Today?
With the AI powered Backer Module, you can now create artificial background singers that sit behind your main vocal. Pick from eight different styles or import your own acapella to further customize your sound. Finish up a demo with different flavors of vocalists, creatively destroy ad-lib tracks, or create something new altogether.
Help Is Here
Vocal Assistant now provides a broad interface for making simple and helpful decisions for your vocal production without getting lost in the details of vocal mixing.
Modules
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.
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.
EQ
Nectar 4 Standard 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.
- Inter-plugin Communication: Nectar 4 Standard communicates with other iZotope plug-ins in your session to address tonal balance and masking.
Also Included
- 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 Standard.
Insight 2
Intelligent Metering for Music & Post
Upgrade Note: Upgrade from Insight 1
Insight 2 is a comprehensive metering and audio analysis plug-in that is a core component of award-winning post production studios, music studios, and broadcast facilities. 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.
With Insight 2, you can immediately detect potential mix problems through real-time visual monitoring and colour-coded alerts. Customize your view by choosing the meters you want to see, set your preferred targets, and resize the window to fit your current workflow. You can also route any audio track in your DAW to Insight 2 to quickly check loudness, levels, intelligibility, phase, frequency content, and more.
With layouts and targets for every stage of post and music production, you can deliver the optimum mix the first time around. Save time and money when mixing and mastering audio by monitoring your audio with the highest accuracy. Keep an eye as well as an ear on your mix at all times with Insight 2!
Insight 2 now supports the Netflix loudness spec!
Get Insight Into Any Mix
Get a complete set of meters that can be customized and form fit to any session. Gain valuable perspective on any aspect of your mix, from loudness, intelligibility, spectral balance, and more.
Whether you’re measuring loudness for broadcast compliance, ensuring clear dialogue for film, or managing a complex 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos session, Insight 2 is the metering tool for the job.
Let Your Dialogue Be Heard
Don’t let your dialogue get lost in the mix! Insight 2’s new Intelligibility Meter takes the guesswork out of setting dialogue levels and provides you with a clearer picture of how an audience will experience the dialogue, no matter their listening environment. Mix with confidence using visual benchmarks that confirm your dialogue is sufficiently clear.
Perfect for music and post-production
- 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 window as small or large as wanted
- Colored warnings available for Level meters
- Expanded inter-plugin communication with iZotope Relay
Introducing the Intelligibility Meter
Setting the dialogue level can be subjective and situational. Insight 2’s Intelligibility Meter takes the guesswork out of setting dialogue levels and provides you with a clearer picture of how an audience will experience the dialogue.
You can now measure the intelligibility of your dialogue compared to the rest of the mix to ensure that your dialogue level can be clearly heard in different listening environments. iZotope's own powerful DSP is used to determine when levels in your mix are preventing the dialogue from being clearly heard.dialogue
New Style
Updated Look & Feel
Insight 2 has an updated design that matches the rest of the iZotope family. The most important targets have been emphasized to make Insight 2 easier to read at a glance.
Resizing
Now you can easily resize individual meters in the main window by clicking and dragging between two-meter frames. Additionally, the main window can now be resized to be as small as the smallest meter—perfect for throwing your loudness meters up in the corner of your third monitor!
Customize Your Layout
Insight 2 is customizable and flexible for your perfect setup. You can display and resize any meter you want or select one of the many Layouts designed for specific post and music production settings.
New Features
Intelligibility Meter
A brand new addition to Insight 2, The Intelligibility Meter provides guidance on whether dialogue is likely to be overshadowed by the loudness of the rest of your mix. Using iZotope Relay or other compatible plug-ins, Insight 2 takes information from your dialogue track and gives you the best recommendation on where your dialogue should be when compared to the rest of your mix. Select from different target Listening Environments, ranging from low to high noise, to check how the intelligibility of your dialogue holds up for listeners in those spaces. Now it’s even easier to ensure your dialogue tracks are loud and clear on any sound source!
Multichannel Support
Analyze your audio in surround sound up to Dolby Atmos 7.1.2.
Deliver for Today’s Standards
Set your loudness targets for EBU R128, BS.1770-1, BS.1770-2/3/4, ATSC A/85, OP-59, and more.
Sound Field
Analyze the channel spread of your audio in stereo or surround.
Spectrogram
The Spectrogram lets you view your audio on a 3d topographical plane.
Custom UI
Display and resize any meter you want and create your own unique workspace.
iZotope Relay: Communicate Across Your Session
Perform detailed analysis by routing audio from any tracks or buses to Insight 2 with Relay. Enjoy the flexibility of using any plug-in while still getting all the benefits of our innovative new tools across your entire mix.
Get a clear picture of how your tracks stack up against your entire mix using the included iZotope Relay plug-in. Any channel with the Relay plug-in on it can be viewed in Intelligibility Meter and on the Spectrogram inside Insight 2, letting you visually compare your track to the rest of the mix. Relay is also compatible with iZotope's Visual Mixer plug-in, letting you adjust the levels, pan, and width of your tracks in a visual space.
Important note: Visual Mixer is available seperately in Neutron 2 Advanced and is not included with Insight.
Relay features:
- Inter-plugin communication with compatible iZotope products (Intelligibility Meter, Tonal Balance Control, Masking Meter, Visual Mixer, and more)
- Delay Offset: align multi-mic'd sources and correcting phase issues in your tracks
- Phase Invert: quickly compare and contrast the phase of tracks in your mix
- Sum to Mono: audition your stereo audio data to see how it translates to mono listening formats
- Swap Channels: Switch left and right channels of any stereo track to audition the stereo image and check for balance issues
- High Pass Filter: Clean up and control the sub frequency content in your tracks with a simple High Pass Filter in Relay
Meters in Insight 2
Easily show or hide meters with the meter selection buttons at the top of the screen.
Insight 2 includes meters for:
- Loudness
- Levels
- Sound Field
- History
- Intelligibility
- Spectrum
- Spectrogram
Learn more about Insight 2.
System Requirements
Operating Systems
- Mac: macOS Big Sur (11.7) — macOS Ventura (13.5) (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
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