KVR Audio

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Sat Sep 10, 2022 8:37 am

I downloaded the RX10 demo. Speech to text doesn't work well and was a pointless waste of development resources that should have gone into, say, fixing the broken dialogue detection algorithm in Dialog Isolate. Or De-bird, De-plane, better real time noise reduction, any of 100 other useful features that actually relate to noise reduction.

The feathering is nice to have, but really the only genuinely new useful feature to me is the updated Spectral Repair. In my tests its performance was variable, but at its best it worked really well on some speech that had a big gentle LPF applied. Other times it mushed the speech with growly noise, so it's hit and miss.

I qualify for a $199 update to Everything iZotope, on paper an amazing deal, but even with the extra Audio Deluxe discount I'm not sure it's worth it. Ozone 10 I won't use because it doesn't support Waves still. Neutron 4 has nothing really useful above 3. I have a thousand reverbs, I don't need Neoverb. That just leaves one half-working useful new feature in RX.

iZotope has definitely lost its way. I used to be their biggest fan, in the glory days each new release of RX unleashed a sonic miricle that anyone in Pro Audio couldn't be without. Now they're being comprehensively overtaken by Acon and Waves, while they faff about with pointless crap like audio to text and update their UIs to look prettier.

McLilith · Post by **McLilith** » Sat Sep 10, 2022 6:26 pm

I gave the Music Rebalance feature another try, and the good news is it's no longer crashing RX10 when I try to use it.

The bad news is, it's still not very effective. I tried it on a slow song that only had a simple synth pad, a single female vocal, and some very sparse electronic percussion. I used the "Seperate" button to split those into separate tracks. The "vocal" track still contained a fair amount of the synth pad. The "Percussion" track contained none of the electronic percussion, no bass drum, no snare, no toms, nothing at all in fact. The "Bass" track also contained nothing, but that was expected, because this song didn't have a bass part. The "Other" track did contain a nicely isolated synth pad track. So, one track out of four was functional.

I haven't tested it on other pieces of music yet, and I'd imagine it does much better on some songs, but I honestly don't have high hopes for the feature.

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:08 pm

Here’s RX8 music rebalance on a couple of totally different songs where it is little short of miraculous.

https://vimeo.com/534393707/a48f90e2ed

But - like many things in RX, it is unpredictably hit and miss.

EDIT - embed isn’t working so you’ll have to click the link.

audenso · Post by **audenso** » Sun Sep 11, 2022 5:56 pm

Just in case that you’re wondering how to reduce your dependence on the money grab RX: viewtopic.php?t=586574

Frankie.T · Post by **Frankie.T** » Tue Sep 13, 2022 10:04 am

Ozone 10 is out too and look very interesting

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Tue Sep 13, 2022 4:00 pm

Yikes. Absynth retired from Komplete 14, and the standalone mothership now retired in all versions of Ozone 10.

Soundwide giveth, and Soundwide taketh away.

robindrieghe · Post by **robindrieghe** » Tue Sep 13, 2022 5:31 pm

i noticed the buy 9 and get 10 for free sale but i didnt expect to receive 10standard free after buying 9standard secondhand here in the marketplace for 40€...might upgrade to advanced

Effectsworks · Post by **Effectsworks** » Tue Sep 13, 2022 5:57 pm

The text-to-speech thing is terrible imo. I've tried it on several pieces of audio and the results were poor.

Hanz Meyzer · Post by **Hanz Meyzer** » Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:26 am

The soft clipper thingy seems to be quite interesting, and also sounds less distorted to my ears than a regular clipper plugin. But! Seems to me that Izotope missed to optimize the cpu usage for this release, it even feels like lot of denormals are happening, so no matter how big my sample buffer is, I always get s-t-tt-tt-tt-tuuuu-ttt-tering!!!!!!

Would be great if Izotope could get rid of those cpu spikes and slowdowns...

ibsenproducer · Post by **ibsenproducer** » Thu Sep 15, 2022 3:11 am

I just get the Ozone Advance 9 for jusst 99$ is a great idea? thanks

yetispapa · Post by **yetispapa** » Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:18 am

I really like, that there are involving more and more AI in their products, but keep the manual tweaking of knobs. I think, that many users are not so experienced in mastering, but want to make music

ROTMetro · Post by **ROTMetro** » Fri Sep 16, 2022 5:35 pm

With 10, don't just select 'RNB' or 'EDM' in the assistant. Load it up with a bunch of reference tracks and cycle through those and see how Ozone applies what it thinks you are looking for. Half will be horrible, but you might be surprised what it comes up with. I just wish they kept the stand alone.

matamoris · Post by **matamoris** » Sun Sep 18, 2022 1:44 pm

What's the general sentiment around Ozone 10? Good upgrade from 9?

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Sun Sep 18, 2022 5:39 pm

matamoris wrote: Sun Sep 18, 2022 1:44 pm What's the general sentiment around Ozone 10? Good upgrade from 9?

I think if you use it as a suite (and not in standalone, which no longer exists), it’s pretty good. But for me, none of the extra features made it a must-have, I have so many alternatives for the areas it covers. I don’t use it in standalone, its support of third party plugs is very patchy (no Waves at all). Oh, and the new assistant thing doesn’t work at all in Acon Acoustica.

But best thing is to demo it. I got a bit of a kick uninstalling it at the end.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Mon Sep 26, 2022 5:52 pm

Ozone 10 impact is very similiar to Neutron Transient Shaper, but more streamlined. Doesn't need to compensate gain manually, has 4 bands instead of 3 and also adjustable release time.

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Not worth the upgrade for me, but certainly useful.

iZotope RX10 and Ozone 10 announced