The incorporation of advances in machine learning and intelligent audio processing, together with the increased number of presets and the improved instrument/dialogue/vocal detection, appear to have increased Neutron 2’s ability to find a good match with the character of the audio being analysed. The new version of Neutron’s Track Assistant offers more intelligent and more varied customisation of presets to suit sources.Īlthough my colleague Mike Senior was slightly underwhelmed by the original version, I rather liked this new and improved Track Assistant. This process encompasses placing them in the optimum order, selecting single-band or multiband processing, calculating and creating an EQ curve, selecting the styles of compression and setting their parameters, setting the parameters of the new multiband gate and transient shaper, selecting and tuning the blend of Exciter algorithms, and adding Neutrino’s spectral shaping in order to improve focus and clarity. Having selected a template, this new version of Track Assistant activates and intelligently modifies the required processing blocks within it. To operate, Track Assistant needs to ‘hear’ around 5-10 seconds of audio from the track, during which time Neutron 2’s combination of “audio intelligence” and machine learning techniques identifies the source as instrument or vocal, and analyses, selects and configures one of its “unique and varied smart templates”. The key Neutron analysis feature is Track Assistant, which automatically creates individualised starting point ‘presets’ for each track that Neutron 2 is instantiated on. Mix Tap features Neutron 2’s high-pass filter and the new delay offset, polarity invert, sum-to-mono and L/R channel swap functions, and can communicate with instances of Neutron 2 on other tracks.
In case that tips your CPU load over the edge, Neutron 2 also gives you the option of inserting a new lightweight Mix Tap plug-in. The ideal starting point for a Neutron 2-assisted mix is therefore to instantiate the plug-in on every track, at the end of any existing plug-in chains. An important feature of Neutron 2 is that all of its instances are ‘aware’ of, and can communicate with, all of the others. Tracks that don’t require Neutron processing can still make their contribution to its analysis of other tracks, thanks to the new Mix Tap plug-in.Designed to ease and enhance your mixing process, rather than to automate it, Neutron 2 aims to provides starting points on which you can build, alongside tools intended to assist you in analysing and correcting issues in your mix and in its component tracks. Since Ozone 7 was also covered in some depth relatively recently, in SOS February 2016, I’m going to concentrate here on the improvements and new features found in the Advanced versions of both programs, some of which don’t appear in their lower-cost Standard and Elements variants. This incorporates numerous new features and improvements, perhaps the most interesting of which is the ability to communicate with Neutron 2, opening up the possibility of addressing mastering EQ-related issues within a mix. Simultaneously, iZotope also launched version 8 of their long-established Ozone mastering suite.
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The version 2 update under review here not only introduces an improved Track Assisant with expanded functionality, but also debuts new features aimed at speeding up your mixing still further. The latest versions of iZotope’s Ozone and Neutron are not only more intelligent than their predecessors, they can also communicate with one another.īack in January 2017, we reviewed iZotope’s Neutron, an innovative plug-in that not only includes a wide range of processing tools, but a facility called Track Assistant, which automatically analyses source tracks and suggests appropriate settings.
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