You can use the supplied Tap plug-in to stream in audio from anywhere in your project (eg, guitar, drum, vocal and bass busses) and visualise them simultaneously on one graph. Proprietary options continue with their MBIT+ dithering process (rates from 24 bit to 8 bit).Īdvanced offers Meter Bridge, a resizable floating window with four selectable meters: spectrogram, spectrum analyser, vectorscope and level. The maximiser module is single-band with five limiting modes, most notably iZotope's latest intelligent release control (IRC III). Convolution handles the main early reflection aspect, while algorithms deal with the tail, allowing fine adjustment of the decay time and high-/low-frequency content. It's now a convolution/algorithm hybrid, with six main space types (including an EMT140 plate). Ozone 5's reverb has been overhauled substantially. The multiband stereo imager is pretty simple, offering band-specific width and delay as well as a Stereoize function. An oversampling option is now included, which affirms iZotope's dedication to audio fidelity.

The exciter includes six modes - retro (transistor), tape, tube, warm and Advanced-only triode and dual-triode modes - with the option to apply time delay to bands. Ratios below 1:1 also activate upwards compression and expansion.

The latter is something we really missed in v4, and it's fully variable in the Advanced edition. Speaking of which, the dynamics section offers gating, compression and limiting, each with threshold, attack, release and hard/soft knee shape.

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