iZotope has updated Ozone, a complete mastering system for Windows and Mac.
Ozone 4 combines seven essential mastering processors into one complete system, letting you give your mixes a finished, full and professional sound. Ozone’s critically acclaimed IRC™ Loudness Maximizer gives you commercial volume and fullness without distorting or coloring your mix. An eight band Paragraphic EQ combines linear phase precision with the warmth and character of analog equalizers and even lets you intelligently match your mix to reference tracks. Innovative Multiband Dynamics, Harmonic Exciter and Stereo Imaging tools add depth and polish to your music.
Changes in Ozone v4.04
- Improved compatibility with Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro.
- Added 64-bit support for VST and AU on OS X.
- Fixed 64-bit iLok support on Windows.
Please note: this version of Ozone no longer supports OS X 10.4.
More information: iZotope / Ozone
Tone2 has announced the release of AkustiX Enhancer, a collection of six essential enhancement tools combined into one intuitive user interface.
AkustiX Enhancer is a collection of enhancement effects designed to complement the mix and mastering process.
Combined into an intuitive user interface each effect is based on the latest developments in psycho-acoustic research and offers multiple ways to customize your recordings by using psycho-acoustic processing to shape and enhance your sound.
AkustiX Enhancer features
- Six essential effects to complement your track and mastering process: Psycho EQ, Stereo Width, Ultra Stereo, Phase Enhance, Multi Exciter, Smart Filter.
- Add brightness, transparency, fatness, vibrancy and depth to your mix.
- Restore and revitalize old recordings.
- Drastically enhances stereo mixes.
- Exclusive new technology based on the latest in psychoacoustics research.
- Elegant and intuitive user interface.
- High-end quality processing.
- Powerful spectrum analyzer & phase meter to visualize imaging and phase.
- Suitable for mix, mastering and signal restoration purposes.
- Ships with professional presets for a broad range of mix & mastering tasks.
AkustiX Enhancer for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is avaialble to purchase for 59 EUR (including VAT).
More information: Tone2 / AkustiX Enhancer
Sound Magic has released Exciter, an exciter effect plugin for Windows.
Sound Magic Exciter is a full range exciter which could add sweet, beautiful harmony to your music!
It is best use when you need to attract audience with an impressive timbre. Exciter offers separate controls on low frequency and high frequency which you could use to achieve different sweetness for your sound.
Exciter features
- Internal 64-bit floating point precision.
- 5 sliders allow you to meticulously control your sound.
- Supports up to 32Bit/384KHz resolution.
Exciter for Windows (VST/Supreme Pianos add-on) is available to purchase for 19.90 EUR.
More information: Sound Magic / Exciter
Tone2 Audiosoftware has announced AkustiX Enhancer, a collection of enhancement effects designed to complement the mix and mastering process.
Each effect is based on the latest developments in psycho-acoustic research and offers multiple ways to customize your recordings by using psycho-acoustic processing to shape and enhance your sound.
AkustiX Enhancer features
- Six essential effects to complement your track and mastering process:
- Psycho EQ – dynamically boosts and equalizes frequencies based on the nonlinearity of the human ear.
- Stereo Width – with up to 3 frequency bands available the stereo width effect uses exclusive new technology to provide independent frequency control over the stereo width & spatial image without introducing negative artifacts.
- Ultra Stereo – adds transparency while enhancing perceived spaciousness and auditory distance within a mix, it can also be used to up mix from mono to stereo.
- Phase Enhance – masks non linearities and simulates a more natural dispersion and propagation of the sound.
- Multi Exciter – designed to enhance presence and brightness the multiband exciter adds vibrancy and depth to your mix by adding additional harmonics.
- Smart Filter – enhances transparency and adds more detail by using frequency-domain masking.
- Add brightness, vibrancy, transparency and depth to your mix.
- Exclusive new technology based on the latest in psychoacoustics research.
- Virtual surround processing.
- Exclusive new Stereo enhancement technology.
- High-end quality processing.
- Powerful spectrum analyzer & phase meter to visualize imaging and phase.
- Restore and revitalize old recordings.
AkustiX Enhancer for Windows and mac will be available at the end of August 2011.
More information: Tone2 / AkustiX Enhancer
Mildon Studios has released Provoc Exciter 3.0, the first in a series of professional vocal plugins collectively named, Provoc.
Provoc Exciter lets you enhance the depth and brilliance of any vocal track. It can bring a dull or flat vocals to life instantly.
In addition to the Treble and Bass faders, it has a De-Hum feature that quickly removes hum and low-end rumble. There’s also a Gain fader with an input level control, and a dry gain control which lets you match the level of the raw vocals to the processed vocals for easy comparison using the on/off switch. Click on the scrollbar to access the De-Hum and Gain controls.
Provoc Exciter for Windows (VST) is available to purchase for $9.95 USD.
More information: Mildon Studios / Provoc Exciter
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Terry West,
VST Posted in
news on Apr 28, 2011
Terry West has released version 1.55 of CS-12M, a master channel strip effect plugin for Windows.
The popular Master Channelstrip with a fresh new GUI design.
Terry West CS-12M master channel stripCS-12M v1.55 features
- New GUI design.
- Bypass.
- In-Output gain + VU.
- 12 graphic bands.
- 9 Q wide settings.
- Punch mode.
- NY compressor (soft/hard) + Knock.
- Magnetic tape saturator.
- Adjustable highend Low-High exciters.
- EQ 12-6 dB switch.
- Output 12-6 dB switch.
- 22 presets.
- HQ engine – multicore support. (WinXP, Win-Vista, Win7).
CS-12M for Windows (VST) is available as freeware.
More information: Terry West / CS-12M
