Izotope Ozone 7 Mastering Software

Key Highlights

• Get essential mastering and mixing tools: Maximizer, Dynamic EQ (now in both Standard and Advanced), the new Vintage Limiter, Vintage Tape [Advanced Only], Vintage Compressor [Advanced Only], and Vintage EQ [Advanced Only].
• Build a high-tech new mastering chain when you mix-and-match components, going from fully modern to fully vintage to anywhere in between.
• Quickly achieve authentic sounds for any genre and style with a comprehensive bank of presets.
• Master within your audio editing software with Ozone as a plug-in or in its own environment with the standalone option.

Dynamic masters with transparent processing

• The highly regarded Ozone Maximizer helps you achieve professional loudness and fullness with transparent limiting. Updated for Ozone 7, the Maximizer features a brand new frequency-specific IRC IV algorithm to deliver transparent mixes with even less pumping and distortion. Smooth out an unwieldy mix or tame the kick drum peaks without affecting the vocals.
• The Dynamic EQ, now in both the standard and Advanced versions of Ozone, lives and breathes with your audio for finer control over your sound. Take advantage of the precision of an equalizer and the musical ballistics of a compressor in one integrated processor. Learn more about using Dynamic EQ in mastering.

New sounds, nostalgic results

• A new set of vintage-inspired processing modules in Ozone puts nostalgic tone at your fingertips, bringing the creative color and character of analog hardware to digital recordings.
• Glue a mix together and control dynamic range with the Vintage Limiter. Add the distinctive sonic characteristics of analog tape with Vintage Tape. Get subtle warming and sweetening effects with the single-band, program-dependent Vintage Compressor. Extend the range of colors available for your masters with the wider, more artful equalization palette of Vintage EQ.

Ozone isn’t just for mastering anymore

• Ozone was designed for mastering but there are lots of possibilities for how Ozone can help out in music production. With Ozone Advanced, you get all ten Ozone modules - including the new vintage processors - as separate component plug-ins. So go ahead and load those individual components on your mix busses and take advantage of Ozone's flexible power during mixing.

Maximizer

• Ozone's highly regarded mastering limiter features a new IRC IV algorithm that uses spectral shaping technology, an innovative new way of processing audio. With IRC IV, you can achieve professional loudness and fullness without the limiter needing to work as hard. Get more transparent limiting than ever before with less pumping at higher volumes - ideal for times when you need to tame the kick drum peaks without causing vocals to pump, keep the subtle snap of a snare rimshot in a country single, or give a club track incredible impact. Prevent your master from clipping while dramatically lifting the perceived overall audio level, for more loudness without sacrificing crisp detail.
• -Experience transparent limiting with multiple modes of the IRC™ (Intelligent Release Control) Limiter technology, including the new IRC IV.
• -Preserve rhythmic detail while maximizing loudness with Transient Emphasis, which adds smart emphasis to transients.
• -Unlink stereo channels to process left and right separately with the Stereo Unlink Control.
• -Get visual feedback that informs your limiting with the Gain Reduction Trace meter's scrolling waveform display.
• -Plus: The "Tube" mode introduced in Ozone 6.1 has become the new Vintage Limiter module. And don't worry, it's backwards compatible!ers, and see the effect of stereo imaging adjustments on different parts of the spectrum with Stereo -Width Spectrum view.
• -Easily access mono and channel reverse.

Dynamic EQ

• Now in both the standard version of Ozone and Ozone Advanced, the Dynamic EQ module lives and breathes with your music. Get finer control over your sound with the precision of an equalizer and the musical ballistics of a compressor integrated into one processor. With an intuitive workflow and clearer visual feedback, Dynamic EQ is a valuable mastering tool that excels where traditional EQs and compressors fail.
• -Choose from five filter shapes including Baxandall Treble, Baxandall Bass, Proportional Q, Band Shelf, and Peak Bell.
• Toggle between analog and digital modes for minimum or linear-phase processing across six independent bands.
• -Access targeted dynamic equalization with Mid/Side and Left/Right processing modes.
• -Intelligently adjust Attack/Release times automatically across the frequency spectrum with Auto-Scale mode.
• -Dynamic nodes show the direction of your adjustments, to make it clear whether you're expanding or cutting.

Vintage Limiter

• Vintage Limiter takes the "Tube" mode that we introduced to the Maximizer in Ozone 6.1 and expands it out to its own module and adds both a faster and slower setting. Vintage Limiter Glue a mix together and add character with the Vintage Limiter's analog-sounding final-stage limiting. Retain the ease and precision of digital maximizing while bringing a natural feel to harsh and digital-sounding masters. Get the silkiness, body, and nostalgic vibe of classic recordings.
• -Inspired by the Fairchild 670 hardware limiter, famous for its silky smooth compression.
• -Fine-tune the Vintage Limiter's response to perfectly fit your source material with the Character control.
• -Get visual feedback to inform your limiting with the Gain Reduction Trace meter's scrolling waveform display.
• -Backwards-compatible with Ozone 6.1 presets that made use of the "Tube" mode in the Maximizer.

Vintage Tape [Advanced Only]

• The Vintage Tape module brings the distinctive richness and feel of tape saturation to your modern digital recordings with all the frequency coloration, distortion, and phase effects of tape. Take advantage of analog tone for masters that sound more musical with added dimension, fatness, and depth.
• -Get the deep, natural sound and punchy low-end response of analog tape with the convenience of a digital interface.
• -Inspired by the innovative Studer A810 tape machine, known for excellent frequency response even at the critical high and low frequency range limits.
• -Continuous Bias control allows for precise tuning of frequency and distortion response.
• -Mix in even harmonics for warmer saturation, or leave them out for more accurate tape emulation.

Vintage Compressor [Advanced Only]

• The Vintage Compressor module is a single-band feedback compressor for subtle warming and sweetening effects. Featuring program-dependent release times, the compressor tailors release shapes to adapt naturally to your music. Thicken the mid-range, tighten and round out the lows, let the top sparkle, and get authentic vintage character.
• -Program-dependent release times keep the compressor's processing transparent, for example: longer release times for vocals to reduce pumping and fast release times to keep drums sounding tight and natural.
• -Editable high-pass, mid-peak, and high-shelf sidechain filters let you mimic the nonlinear frequency response of vintage hardware compressors, or create unique compression effects not available in traditional hardware.
• -Automatic gain compensation provides automatic makeup gain, allowing you to easily compare your mix with and without dynamics processing applied.

Vintage EQ [Advanced Only]

• With the richness, musicality, and color of Pultec equalizers, Vintage EQ lets you brighten your master, smooth out heavy low end, and add body to your digital recordings. With discrete frequency value selections, you can bring a musical focus to your EQ approach. Use the boost and cut controls separately - but at the same time! - for a low-shelf that boosts first, then cuts, and then levels out to smoothly avoid making your mix sound "boomy."
• -Add the richness, warmth, and color of analog equalization to your audio.-
• -Models the qualities and experience of Pultec hardware equalizers for a unique, musical way to manage equalisation.
• -Mid/Side and Left/Right processing modes give you unprecedented control over the stereo soundstage.

Presets

• Ozone's Preset Manager gives you professionally designed starting points for mastering your projects. Power users will appreciate the ability to create presets that utilize all of Ozone's modules and routing capabilities for instant recall of useful configurations and a customized blend of analog and modern processing. Ozone 7 Advanced comes with additional presets that incorporate Advanced-only modules in the signal chain. Plus, the Greg Calbi Mastering Presets for Ozone now come as part of your product installation.
• -Easily load and save settings for individual modules without affecting the settings of other modules.
• -Streamline your decision-making process with outcome-oriented preset descriptions.

Dynamics

• Easily fine-tune the dynamics of your mixes with independent control for up to four frequency bands, each with separate limiting, compressing, and expanding. The interactive Threshold control allows you to set threshold points for the Limiter and Compressor stages without taking your eyes off of the gain reduction meter, which provides extra feedback while making your detailed dynamics tweaks.
• -Intelligently automate the difficult task of finding the right release times with Adaptive Release mode.
• -Automatically set crossover frequencies based on incoming audio with Learn mode.
• -Adjust the dynamics of the center of your mix independently of the sides of your mix with Mid/Side Processing mode.
• -Find the perfect compressor settings with the Gain Reduction Trace view, which plots the gain reduction of all dynamics bands on top of a scrolling waveform, and get further visualization with the Dynamic Transfer Curve and spectrum analyzer.
• -Add a variable slope high-pass or API Thrust-like Tilt filter for reducing pumping with the Detection Circuit Filter.