This might seem like a bit of a trifle, but really this was the most powerful thing about Ozone for me.
Now you can get the assistant in two flavours – modern or vintage. It works in similar ways to the AI in Neutron and Nectar you instantiate the assistant, select a couple parameters, play the loudest part of the track, and boom, twenty seconds later the assistant gives you what it considers the best version of a mastering chain for the track. In this version of Ozone the AI has been upgraded. Both modern and vintage EQ’s and compressors, dynamic EQ, Exciter, Stereo imager, spectral shaper, Low end Focus, external plugin module, to name a few! Ozone 9 – What’s New? You can chain the modules in any order you like, or open them as separate plugins. Ozone has crammed 16 digital and analog emulated tools into one concise interface, to give you a hot chance of making the mix into a superb piece of music. Ozone has a 17 year pedigree, and has steadily improved as a one stop mastering shop, with all the above mentioned elements included for a great mastered track. Over the years the art of mastering has progressed to include a myriad of other tricks and techniques to continually head toward the musical perfection of a finished track. Mastering turns a mixed track into a finished piece of music. In essence, mastering is the very skilled use of EQ and compression to get the absolute best out of the mixed music removing aural irritations to make it accomodating to the ear, and match with any other tracks (if it’s an EP /Record). Now seeing it and hearing it in use in a mastering capacity was equally, almost terrifyingly impressive. I was impressed with my first encounter with the AI in my iZotope Neutron review, where the software assisted in creating a rough start mix to work from. Izotope are very much at the forefront of the useful integration of AI in our musical software apps. What is clear, as time goes on, is that AI is here to stay, and will become more a part of the music production world. I’m aware there are musicians, producers and engineers on different sides of the fence when it comes to AI in music, but that’s definitely a discussion for another time. Izotope has, over the last several years, put a ton of R&D into the use of AI in their software. I took the current version, Ozone 9, through its paces to see how it’s evolved. Izotope’s flagship mastering software has gone through a couple of iterations since our Ozone 7 review.
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