Izotope joining Boris FX

[fisherKing]

ozone (now 12 advanced) is a remarkable toolkit (with too many options, and easy to abuse). but, used with patience (and some restraint), am doing my best mastering ever (and now, for clients as well). for me, anyway, it's definitive.

[manymanyhaha]

A few years ago, I bought a couple of the Boris VFX suites at Black Friday. Quite expensive like a lot of video effects. Stingy with licensing, one seat. Yearly upgrade plan is really expensive so I'm still using the same effects from seven or more years ago. No problems there. And I like the effects, expands the usage of Adobe Premiere quite far. That's all I got.

[HM]

I gave up on izotope a while ago fortunately.

Agree, and RX is the main substance that might justify them long term, like Kontakt is to NI

Aside from that, to much spread, beels and whistles, lack of substance, and to many changes

Pricing crazy lately, upgrades at directly respectless level, even for moving one single step up

Also f.eks. standard-RX dont even have a basic tool like "wind-remover", you pay extra for all

Kontakt my last NI plug to maybe be updated, but the format smells bad, lesson learned

I have been look elswhere the last years, like East West, plus prefer iLok/Installer over CR

RX was my last Izotope plug being updated, but now I decided RX11 will be the last


I am with BorisFX with Vegas Pro, and Sound Forge, their pricing is generally very high

Same Vegas team, that has been struggeling since Sony molested it, so not much hope

Sound Forge is kinda abandonware, just to have some kind of audioeditor for the suites

Ask myself if BorisFX is taking their mouth to full, Vegas users still suffer and flee to Resolve

To bring up Vegas at apropriate solid level, and continue Izotope, takes extreme resources

[Scoops]

It also makes me wonder what will become of the Izotope software linked in the Native Access app. If it will continue to be available indefinitely from here on still or will it eventually be pulled too..

I changed my mind and decided to purchase some iZotope stuff

As an FYI, yesterday, I used the Product Portal, NOT NA, to install Rx12 advanced, Ozone12 advanced, and a handful of others. The talk about the Product Portal being obsolete and not functioning by some of the NI fanboys is purely fictitious

[elxsound]

Did someone actually say that, or just having fun typing?

I know when I upgraded my Izotope stuff last year, most if not all of it was using Izotope’s authorization.

Even though it won’t affect me, I’m still curious what will happen with Ozone licenses authored in Native Access.

[nonstatic]

At least RX can benefit from this. Some of the CrumplePop restoration tools BorisFX acquired a few years ago are actually better than RX (derustler for example). I wouldn't be surprised to see CrumplePop merged into RX since RX has a less stupid name and more brand recognition.

[IvyBirds]

Boris does seem to have a habit of keeping older product lines alive a lot longer than anyone would expect. All the old Sonic Foundry/Sony stuff still resides in their catalog, which surprises me. I don't know who still _uses_ those, but...well, they keep 'em alive so somebody still is, I guess.

I bought Acid Pro 7 many many years ago on the cheap. Then Magix bought it from Sony and updated it for modern 64 bit plugins but didn't do anything else and quickly came out with a new version

Since at it's core it was designed to run on what now would be considered ancient CPUs with miniscule amounts of RAM, on Windows 10 and 11 it's now a rock solid SUPER lightweight DAW that is dead simple to use for basic audio editing, and live multi track recordings. It also has a really good easy to use sequencer

I would be rather devastated if I lost the ability to install it. It's just so handy and an important part of my workflow, I love to just fire it up when I want to do something simple without the overhead of a full on Cubase 15 session

[osiris]

Isn't that why Acid went away in the first place? I seem to remember an update that was way overpriced and nobody bought it because there was much more comparable stuff at that price point.

[simon.a.billington]

I can see RX fitting right in, not so sure about their other music production tools. Although
I could see Nectar getting a Dialogue mode.

[IvyBirds]

Isn't that why Acid went away in the first place? I seem to remember an update that was way overpriced and nobody bought it because there was much more comparable stuff at that price point.

Sony was all in on Acid 7 until they weren't. At its time of release it had flawless pitch and time stretching for loops and a kick ass sequencer. Due to Sony's relationships with retail with their electronics you could also buy it on DVD Roms in non musical retail stores like Best Buy in the USA. They also had Vegas which was like Acid but had a focus on video also

But Sony let Acid wither and die on the vine, they put resources into Vegas because it supported their line of Video Cameras even in the Semi Pro Market which Apple abandoned at that time with the demise of Final Cut Pro. Sony gave Vegas 64 bit plugin support but not Acid

This really caused Acid to start losing more and more market share to other DAWs especially Ableton Live. After Magic bought it they came out with Acid Pro 8. It offered minimal enhancements with the exception of native 64 bit VST3 support, but by that point most users had moved on and Acid 8 was way behind what other DAWs could do. They priced it at $149 new and tried to sell upgrades to Acid 7 users at lower and lower prices. I think I paid $29. They came out with multiple versions after that, but I don't think they sold very well and I never used them

Acid 7/8 still runs well on Windows and does a great job as simple multi track audio and MIDI recorder.