iZotope FXEQ - New Multi-Band Multi-Effect

[jules99]

Didn't see any posts in this. Izotope just released FXEQ:



5 powerful creative effects. 1 innovative EQ workflow. Easily add drive, dimension, and texture to your tracks. No more complex routing, buses, and sends – simplify your effects chain with the equivalent of 10 separate plugins in 1. Say hello to brilliant sound without the struggle.

[db3]

$49 or less with crossgrade offer in account.
Sounds decent enough and the UI's nice and clean, but each effect only has basic controls. Perhaps a precursor to an Advanced version. Adds 10ms latency.

[billinder33]

Looks cool, like Spectre but with FX.

IMO this would make more sense if there's more config options on the verb, delay and mod modules. Maybe that's available but hidden? Not sure. Also, much of iZotope's plugins are fairly CPU intensive, so hopefully this one is a little more CPU friendly.

May download it if it's included in my current iZotope package. If I have to pay for it, I'll probably pass.

[cryophonik]

Looks/sounds pretty good, and not a bad price at all. Although, I do think having the ability to assign routing (or at least having some preset serial routing options) would take it to another level beyond parallel routing for the individual modules, but oh well. I'm really liking their new plugins (e.g., Cascadia, Velvet, etc.) so I'll definitely demo this one.

[dbodin]

iZotope just launched FXEQ, promising a multi-effect plugin that applies five creative effects in a powerful EQ workflow. Designed to eliminate the need for complex routing, buses, or sends. Let’s check it out!

[midi sentinel]

Looks/sounds pretty good, and not a bad price at all. Although, I do think having the ability to assign routing (or at least having some preset serial routing options) would take it to another level beyond parallel routing for the individual modules, but oh well. I'm really liking their new plugins (e.g., Cascadia, Velvet, etc.) so I'll definitely demo this one.

Names are confusing, I have to admit.

Phonolyth has effect plugins Cascade and Velvet Machine, I initially thought you were talking about them.

Plugin makers are running out of names, apparently

[ere2learn]

Sounds like doodoo to me, you probably have better everything in some folder you haven't looked at in 6 months

[carambo]

There is something similar since 10y : Obelisk by Artificial Audio

[Michael L]

also Bluecat MB-7 multiband mixer which lets you use your entire stash of FX

[pekbro]

Not overly impresses so far myself. Seems like it eats a lot of cpu (without really testing that anyway).

[masterhiggins]

I give it 9 months before izotope quietly discontinues it and forget it ever existed.

[kraster]

I kind of like it, to be honest with a few caveats.

For the most part it's well implemented.

What I didn't realise until I used it is that each effect is a full eq so it's not your typical multiband style multifx like shaperbox that uses a combination of bandpasses and LP/HP filters to divide up each band. You can add multiple nodes to each band and each node can be a different filter type.

The effects themselves are all very good, imho. 8 types of saturation with optional 4x oversampling, three reverbs, A few delay types with optional ping pong, a modulation section with chorus, flanger, phaser and doubler and 4 lofi modes (Cassette, vinyl etc.) with optional DAC artefacts.

The not so good:

I would have preferred to see each effect being user selectable so you could have, for example multiple delays on different parts of the single.

There doesn't seem to be any way of soloing an effect. You can solo a band within an eq but not multiple bands nor the entire effect slot (I may have missed something here). This isn't an issue if you're just using one eq band but it's one if you have multiple bands.

There's very little control over the effects themselves. Each effect has two main controls. This isn't as bad as it sounds because the different effect types and the fact that they are all eq based means that you can get a lot out of each effect.

There are no routing options. Everything is parallel. Not a deal breaker but would have been nice to see some kind of serialising and reordering of slots.

It probably sounds like the good outweighs the bad here but in practice I think it's the opposite. I like the whole self contained nature of it. For things like guitars, keys and percussion it's nice to have an all in one solution that you can place on an insert and the individual effects quality is very good. The option of having an FX only for sends is also pretty useful.

[osiris]

Wait a month and it will be $9.00.

[dionenoid]

Wait another month and it will be part of a free NI bundle.

[Uncle E]

IMO this would make more sense if there's more config options on the verb, delay and mod modules. Maybe that's available but hidden? Not sure. Also, much of iZotope's plugins are fairly CPU intensive, so hopefully this one is a little more CPU friendly.

The challenge was creating something powerful without losing the immediacy. The EQ is what makes it special. Once you use it, you'll see how quick it is to get interesting results.