iZotope Music Production Suite5 "Two Major Updates"?

[noiseboyuk]

If the two updates to flagship products are new UIs for old reverbs, I think that would seal iZotope's plummeting reputation.

I think for a lot of iZotope's products, there's not much that I'd want them to do. For Ozone, the one thing I'd love is for them to support Waves, but that will likely never happen.

It's RX that I think is the most telling bellweather for the company. RX was best in class, remarkable innovation, but first with Acon (at the budget end) and now Waves, that throne is being challenged. The poverty of RX9's feature set and supposed improvements flies in the face of all the many, many things they COULD do - noise reduction is a far less mature market than mastering or basic fx, we'll see ever more remarkable things being done in the coming decade. But are iZotope still going to be the company that is doing them?

[fairlyclose]

If the two updates to flagship products are new UIs for old reverbs, I think that would seal iZotope's plummeting reputation.

I think for a lot of iZotope's products, there's not much that I'd want them to do. For Ozone, the one thing I'd love is for them to support Waves, but that will likely never happen.

It's RX that I think is the most telling bellweather for the company. RX was best in class, remarkable innovation, but first with Acon (at the budget end) and now Waves, that throne is being challenged. The poverty of RX9's feature set and supposed improvements flies in the face of all the many, many things they COULD do - noise reduction is a far less mature market than mastering or basic fx, we'll see ever more remarkable things being done in the coming decade. But are iZotope still going to be the company that is doing them?

haven't seen anything to convince me to upgrade from rx7, but I like RX a lot - love things like find and process similar sections. But crazy limitations like no vst3 support , no ARA, no easily adjustable feathering on selections and so on seem a bit limited - but maybe they have changed that

[andrew71]

Did they drop the Standard/Advanced versions of Neutron with the latest release? I haven't seen reference to these tiers in the marketing emails I've received, and it appears to be just one upgrade price.

Yeah appears so - https://www.izotope.com/en/products/neu ... tures.html . Not even mention of Neutron 3 Standard being a thing… it WAS a thing, wasn’t it?

I started to doubt myself for a minute, but yes, this review from SOS mentions that the Mix Assistant was only included in the Advanced version of Neutron 3 - https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/iz ... 3-advanced.