iZotope Ozone 8 Advanced v8.02 / v8.02a

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Ozone 8 Advanced - The Future of Mastering!

As the industrys most comprehensive mastering suite, Ozone 8 adds to its legacy by introducing new intelligent signal processing, spectral shaping, Tonal Balance Control, and more. Master your audio with over fifteen years of audio industry firsts at your fingertips. Enhanced with new, futuristic, intelligent features, Ozone 8 is your one stop for a tonally balanced, professional master with twelve essential mastering processors. Its the smartest version of Ozone yet.





Tonal Balance Control

The new Tonal Balance Control plug-in presents industry-first visual analysis and communicates with all instances of Neutron 2, allowing you to reach your desired master faster. Compare your work with track references and genre standards informed by analysis on years of popular masters, achieve a target sonic profile, and ensure your delivery will translate for popular distribution channels.

NEW! Spectral Shaper



Smooth and sculpt problematic and harsh frequencies with the new Spectral Shaper module. Mold your audio by applying frequency-specific dynamics, surgically or creatively, to create smooth, balanced audio. Fantastic for taming percussive transients, Spectral Shaper can tame sibilant hi-hats, harsh vocals, plucky acoustic guitars, and other overly bright mix elements. For a creative twist, use Spectral Shaper across any frequency band to experiment with timbre, resonance, and transient information without affecting other elements of the source audio.

12 Essential Mastering Tools with Component Plug-ins

Ozone 8 Advanced includes twelve essential modern and vintage modules with component plug-ins: Spectral Shaper, EQ, Dynamic EQ, Post EQ, Maximizer (with IRC IV and new IRC LL), Imager, Exciter, Dynamics, Vintage Limiter, Vintage Tape, Vintage EQ, Vintage Compressor. Ozone 8 Advanced comes with each module as a component plug-in, allowing you to use any piece of Ozone independently in your session.

Track Referencing

A/B your master against reference tracks directly within any instance of Ozone or its standalone application. Now an integrated process, track referencing is easy, intelligent, and incorporated into Ozones workflow. Track referencing in Ozone allows you to load up to 10 tracks and will identify sections of your reference for easy playback like Verse or Chorus, so you can spend less time finding and more time mastering.

V8.01 Change log:

New Features/Enhancements:

Improved Master Assistant EQ results to be less subtle.
Improved gain trace drawing in Vintage Limiter module.
Improved gain trace drawing in Vintage Compressor module. | Advanced Only.
Improved threshold meters in Maximizer to show more accurate, independent L/R channel gain reductions.
Added Japanese translations to the Ozone 8 help documentation.
Added Japanese translations to the Tonal Balance Control help documentation. | Advanced Only.
Added ability to automate band Mode parameters in the Exciter module & component plug-in (Advanced only).
Input level meter will display a different color for reference levels when the Replace input with reference option is selected.
Added support for Nuendo 8 and Reason 10.

Bug Fixes:

slow session loading when opening sessions that contained several instances of Ozone 8.
issue where Matching EQ processing was not being applied properly during export from the Ozone 8 application.
persistent tooltip box that would appear in some host applications.
Search function in the help documentation.
gain reduction drawing in the threshold meters when working with mono files.
possible crash when closing and re-opening the Ozone interface when certain I/O meter types selected.
overlapping text labels in the Options menu.
latency compensation issue in Tonal Balance Control. | Advanced Only.
installer and help documentation path issues.
issue with signal chain updating in the Ozone application when using the same third-party plug-in in multiple track tabs.