KVR Audio

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 4:20 pm

It looks like iZotope are selling a cut-down version of Neutron called Neutron Elements. All I can tell so far from the product page is that it has one less compressor available. It's also on a deal at the moment, at $99 with a regular price of $129. Has anyone tried it?

https://www.izotope.com/en/products/mix ... ments.html

DarkStar · Post by **DarkStar** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 4:25 pm

A comparison chart is here: http://www.timespace.com/product/produc ... 758332.jpg

Whoomph · Post by **Whoomph** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 4:38 pm

thanks guys

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:25 pm

Ha! I missed seeing that the Masking Meter and Limiter were missing. Oh, well.

Some videos here, for anyone thinking of getting it:

Intro video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq0n0WmhhEE&t=0s

Using Track Assistant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dV9tYgQP0s

Creating punchy kick drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

Using the EQ Learn function
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTW7WQF2Uqs

Using parallel processing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia7yhtepdww

pekbro · Post by **pekbro** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:47 pm

Izotope is ridiculous only offering crossgrades to the production bundle from
the production bundle, and no upgrade from Alloy 2 to Neutron.

What a blatant, I *will charge you more money for stuff ploy.

No thanks...

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:59 pm

Way overpriced IMO!

I love the production bundle. There are ways to get into it cheap, keep your eye out for a great sale and make sure that you have some other iZotope products. If you just want Neutron, I'd way for a sale on the regular product and just pass on this silliness.

pekbro · Post by **pekbro** » Thu Jun 08, 2017 12:12 am

ghettosynth wrote:Way overpriced IMO!

I love the production bundle. There are ways to get into it cheap, keep your eye out for a great sale and make sure that you have some other iZotope products. If you just want Neutron, I'd way for a sale on the regular product and just pass on this silliness.

I have the first production bundle, I will upgrade when they come to
their senses a bit, in regard to the price.
Or, I can wait, forever if necessary...

Otherwise, I'll just buy it used at some point.

I just think they could be a little less obvious about stuff, I mean
do they really think were all stupid? Neutron uses exactly the same presets
as Alloy FFS. Geez...

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Thu Jun 08, 2017 12:42 am

pekbro wrote: I just think they could be a little less obvious about stuff, I mean
do they really think were all stupid? Neutron uses exactly the same presets
as Alloy FFS. Geez...

Hilarious, I did not know that. I don't have Alloy, I came to iZotope a bit later. I do like aspects of their old interface style as well, I use Nectar and Trash 2 quite a bit.

Kr3eM · Post by **Kr3eM** » Thu Jun 08, 2017 2:46 am

pekbro wrote: I have the first production bundle, I will upgrade when they come to
their senses a bit, in regard to the price.
Or, I can wait, forever if necessary...

+1

SparkySpark · Post by **SparkySpark** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 8:22 pm

ghettosynth wrote:Way overpriced IMO!
...
If you just want Neutron, I'd way for a sale on the regular product and just pass on this silliness.

Sorry for my ignorance, but why is this overpriced in your opinion? What resembles this package? I 'd really be interested if there are others like it.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 8:33 pm

SparkySpark wrote:
ghettosynth wrote:Way overpriced IMO!
...
If you just want Neutron, I'd way for a sale on the regular product and just pass on this silliness.
Sorry for my ignorance, but why is this overpriced in your opinion? What resembles this package? I 'd really be interested if there are others like it.

Neutron Standard's introductory price was $99. It will go on sale at that price at some time in the not too distant future. What resembles this package is Neutron Standard which has significantly more capability and is, consequently, much more useful.

Therefore, this is overpriced as compared to THEIR OWN product line.

Others may really find the automatic features more useful. I do use them every once in a while to find a good starting point, but, that's not what makes Neutron so useful IMO. I like the dynamic EQ, the integration, and the multiband compressors, enhancer, and transient shaper. When you take the majority of those features out it's a low end channel strip with a few tricks. There are more than enough tools that are comparable, free even, to the basic tools of Neutron "Elements."

SparkySpark · Post by **SparkySpark** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 8:45 pm

Ah - got it.

Thanks!

For anyone interested: you can run it for free for ten days. There are also constant fifty percent academic deals (on full price) on everything Izotope.

DubLifeSD · Post by **DubLifeSD** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:22 pm

Not even included if you have Neutron Advanced

rod_zero · Post by **rod_zero** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:03 pm

The masking meter was thebest part of neutron...

Russell Grand · Post by **Russell Grand** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:43 pm

DubLifeSD wrote:Not even included if you have Neutron Advanced

What more do you want? Neutron Advance has all of what Neutron Elements has x 100!

iZotope Neutron Elements