I’m torn, I don’t subscribe entirely to either point of view, it depends which way the wind is blowing if I’m really honest. The second reason I know some people will not like the concept is because for some the very idea of carving frequencies out in mixes is a bad idea. This is another moment when technology is giving us a helping hand. Is it cheating? Only in the same way that driving is cheating when you can walk or a washing machine is cheating instead of washing your clothes by hand.
Anyone who has graded images or movies on a pro application will be used to metering options that help show light and hue - Neutron for me is the same thing. Does this mean it takes away the craft and art of mixing? Not at all, it simply helps identify areas that you can work with.
MacroPresets: over 150 professional presets with custom layouts that show you simplified controls for the task at hand.So why do I think people are going to hate it? A couple of reason, the first one is that it automates some features that until now have been a manual task.Equalizer: exceptional sonic quality, precise controls, new steeper low and high pass filters.Limiter: includes zero latency operation, and a variable phase rotation control for optimizing vocals and other instruments.
Some of the things that jump out are: Sidechainging, Dual (parallel)Compression stages. Here is some mroe info from the Izotope site. It also seemed to have a very nice "In Your Face" sound for vocals in my initial experience.Īll in all a very nice compliment to your existing plug ins that took some guesswork out of the process and allowed me to get up and running with a relevant starting point.
When I called up a vocal preset It had settings like "Remove Mud", "Add Sparkle", etc. The difference with Alloy is that they really tried to make it more CPU friendly as a lot of people in the past were using Ozone on multiple channels and Ozone is a little more agressive in its CPU usage.Īnother aspect of Alloy I am really enjoying is the use of "Matrix" presets. If you use Ozone you are already familiar with some of the ways Izotope approaches things from the user interface point of view. I have been really impressed with Izotope's newest plug in Alloy and wanted to share some initial first impressions. It is a really nice plug in that tackles the job of not only working with individual channels as you would a channel strip effect but also is great with lots of other processing tasks. For whom it may concern a poster called simeon wrote: