v6.1 [Mar 20, 2015]
Adaptive Release Mode
Intelligently automate the difficult task of finding the right release times.
Tube Limiting Mode
Combine warmer, analog-sounding final stage limiting with the ease and precision of digital maximizing.
v6.0 [Oct 31, 2014]
What's New in Ozone 6
Ozone 6 features the largest user-interface overhaul in iZotope history. We’ve created an elegant and striking visual aesthetic that guides users through every stage of the mastering process. Alongside a fluid workflow, the creative elements of mastering are now front and center, so users can define their own sound with ease.
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Ozone 6 Advanced Highlights
Dynamic EQ Module
Ozone Advanced adds the new Dynamic EQ module, an EQ that lives and breathes with your music. Harness the precision of an equalizer with the musical ballistics of a compressor. Integrated with an intuitive workflow, these processors work in concert to create a valuable mastering tool that excels where traditional EQs and compressors fail.
Dynamic EQ Component Plug-in
Ozone 6 Advanced also includes a component Dynamic EQ plug-in for use throughout your audio editing software signal chain.
Ozone 6 Highlights
New Analog Hardware-modeled EQ filter shapes
Harness the sonic characteristics of classic EQ designs with new filter shapes including Baxandall Bass and Treble filters and API-style Proportional Q filters. Also new to Ozone 6 are Band Shelf filters and Resonant High and Low shelves.
Surgical Mode
All digital linear-phase filters are now matched to analog shapes; however, Surgical Mode allows you to utilize the precision of digital shapes for extreme cuts with minimum slope.
Variable EQ Phase Control
Digital linear-phase filters now feature per-node variable phase control for subtly adding phase delay to smooth out boosts that may sound harsh.
Seamless Bypass
Audition changes to your audio by gain-matching bypassed audio to your Ozone-processed signal for faster and more accurate A/B testing.
Customizable Signal Chain
Host your third-party VST/AU plug-ins in the standalone application. Then build your mastering signal chain from scratch or load a preset and add, remove, and swap the order of modules.
Module Gain Meters
Monitor gain-staging across processing modules with Module Gain Meters that instantly illustrate where you’re boosting and cutting gain across your signal chain.
Transient Emphasis
Preserve rhythmic detail while maximizing loudness with Transient Emphasis, which adds smart emphasis to transients by preserving sharp attacks.
Triode and Dual Triode Exciter Modes
Modeled after actual hardware circuitry, these Exciter modes offer vintage saturation from subtle warmth to more pronounced edge.
Stereoize Control
Add width to narrow or mono recordings without introducing phase artifacts.
Variable Knee Compression
Get precise control over compression characteristics by choosing between hard and soft compression.
Dynamics Detection Enhancements
Simulate smoother analog-style compression with both High-Pass and API Thrust-inspired Tilt filters. Use the True Envelope detection mode for RMS-style compression (flat frequency response and low distortion) triggered equally across the frequency spectrum.
New Presets
All newly designed presets utilize the improvements introduced in Ozone 6 including new Component Plug-in Presets with Ozone Advanced.
Standalone Application
Now available as both a plug-in and as a standalone application, Ozone 6 adds a number of forward-thinking features that simplify traditional mastering workflows, including:
Automatic color-coded waveform segmentation.
Tops/tails trims and fades with multiple shape types.
Third-party plug-in hosting (VST/AU Support).
Single/all-track export with iZotope SRC (sample rate conversion).
Auto-adjusted MBIT Dither at output.
Fully contained project folders.
v5.0 [Nov 11, 2011]
EQUALIZER
Analog-matched frequency response for all filter types
Vintage Low and High Shelf filters with variable "Cut" control
Extra-steep "brickwall" analog Low- and High-Pass filters
Flat Low- and High-Pass filters with variable slope
New Snapshots panel with easier EQ snapshot workflow
Improved, simplified Matching EQ feature
Mini Info Panel for easy access to active EQ band's settings
Ability to zoom by time and frequency for precise equalization
Separate EQ settings for left/right channels
Second Post EQ in signal chain for post-dynamics/exciter shaping
Zoomable spectrum in EQ
New Spectrum options including Left/Right and Mid/Side modes
Phase Response, Phase Delay and Group Delay plots
MAXIMIZER
IRC III Limiting mode: new psychoacoustic algorithm with transient preservation
Gain Reduction Trace view: shows gain reduction over time
Spectrum view
Stereo Link: allows variance between fully independent left/right limiting and linked limiting
DITHER
Additional Dither noise-shaping curves
Dither Shape view
EXCITER
Improved sound quality in all Exciter modes
Natural-sounding Peak Saturation: adds harmonics without drastic gain changes
Post-Saturation High Shelf filter: for additional harmonic shaping
Saturation Spectrum display: shows excitation by frequency
Refined Tube, Tape, Retro, and Warm algorithms
Oversampling mode prevents aliasing
STEREO IMAGING
New Vectorscope modes: Polar Level, Polar Sample
Anti-phase prevention
Stereo Width Spectrum view
Correlation Trace view shows mono-compatibility over time
Stereo Balance meter
Phase Rotation allows phase fine-tuning to optimize asymmetrical waveforms' loudness
DYNAMICS
Greatly-improved workflow includes always-visible Attack and Release controls
All Bands mode shows most crucial controls for every band in one view
Gain Reduction Trace shows dynamics characteristics superimposed on waveform
Interactive Threshold provides intuitive control over all dynamics stages
Improved Gain Reduction meter with input/output and overlaid histogram options
Hard/Soft Knee selection
New upward compression boosts levels as they fall below the threshold
Limiter Boost pushes up threshold-crossing levels when Limiter ratio is set to the left
REVERB
New Modeled Reverb algorithm: provides realistic early reflections with smooth decay
Improved Plate and Room modes and new Hall mode
PRESETS AND ROUTING
All Global Presets updated to take advantage of new DSP and features
Many new genre-specific presets added to Global Presets
Improved Amount controls make adjusting presets simple
Module Presets: each mastering module has dedicated preset saving and loading
Over 80 new Module Presets included
Select independent or shared crossovers for multiband modules
