Press Release - iZotope Launches Ozone 7: Vintage-Inspired Mastering Tools

 iZotope, Inc., makers of award-winning software for audio production, now has released the latest version of their flagship mastering software, Ozone.

Ozone 7 is a set of essential mastering tools that enable both professionals and aspiring music producers to easily add a final level of polish to their mixes and audio recordings. While retaining the elegant workflow and precision audio processing of previous versions, Ozone 7 brings the best sonic characteristics of analog hardware to modern digital recordings.

Ozone 7 main Interface with dynamic EQ

The Ozone family of products includes both Ozone 7 and Ozone 7 Advanced, which includes additional features for gluing together a mix. Ozone 7 Advanced users can take advantage of four brand-new vintage-inspired modules, designed to add deep, rich analog character to digital recordings. Additionally, the new Codec Preview feature lets Advanced users audition the effect of industry-standard codecs on their master, making it easier to make necessary adjustments before exporting for digital distribution.

Ozone 7 Vintage EQ

By starting with Ozone's expansive collection of presets, pros and newcomers alike can quickly achieve authentic sounds in any genre. Through helpful visualizations and intuitive controls, the software aims to takes the guesswork and manual labor out of the mastering process, helping users experiment without fear of making the wrong sonic choices.

"Ozone 7 builds on iZotope's reputation for superior sound quality and mastering tools," says iZotope Product Manager Izzy Maxwell. "We've added new processing capabilities that honor all the aspects of vintage hardware that people love-warmth, saturation, character, richness-and reimagines them for the modern digital music production realm."

Ozone 7 Key Features:

• Vintage Limiter: Glue a mix together, control dynamic range, and add character
• Vintage Tape [Advanced only]: Add the distinctive sonic characteristics of analog tape to modern digital recordings
• Vintage Compressor [Advanced only]: Add subtle warming and sweetening effects with a single-band, program-dependent vintage compressor
• Vintage EQ [Advanced only]: Add the richness, warmth, and color of analog equalization to digital audio
• Maximizer with new IRC IV mode: Increase perceived loudness without pumping or distortion with the mode's innovative new spectral shaping technology
• Dynamic EQ: Now included in both versions of Ozone with improved features and optimized performance
• A comprehensive bank of presets: Achieve authentic sounds for any genre and style and explore Signature Mastering Presets from Greg Calbi, the notable mastering engineer whose career spans from John Lennon to Bruce Springsteen to Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett
• New export options: Encode mastered audio to MP3 and AAC formats

Ozone 7 runs as a standalone application, or as a plug-in in your audio editing software. Ozone 7 Advanced includes ten additional component plug-ins for direct access to individual Ozone modules in your host.

Pricing & Availability

Ozone 7 and Ozone 7 Advanced are available now at www.izotope.com/ozone and at select retailers.

Ozone 7 Advanced is also available as part of iZotope's Music Production Bundle with Insight, Alloy 2, Nectar 2 Production Suite, and Trash 2 (plus two Trash  Expansions). 

The Music Production Bundle, Ozone 7 Advanced, and Ozone 7 are on sale through November 11, 2015:

• Music Production Bundle is available for $549 USD, €505 (reg. $599, €549)
• Ozone 7 Advanced is available for $449 USD,  €429 (reg. $499, €459)
• Ozone 7 is available for $199 USD, €185 (reg. $249, €229)

 Upgrade pricing can be found on iZotope's website, and owners of previous versions of Ozone can find their upgrade coupons in their iZotope accounts.

All customers who purchased Ozone 6 or Ozone 6 Advanced after August 26, 2015 will receive a free upgrade to the respective version of Ozone 7.

AES NEWS - Waves Audio Director of R&D Itai Neoran to Lecture at AES

KNOXVILLE, TN, October 27, 2015 — Itai Neoran, Director of Research and Development at Waves Audio, will be giving a lecture on FIR reverberation as part of the Immersive Audio Signal Processing and Effects Workshop at the upcoming 139th International AES Convention, taking place October 29 to November 1, 2015, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.  

The workshop (October 31, 10:00–11:30 am, Room 1A14, Technical Program Sessions) will discuss multi-channel and surround effects. Neoran’s lecture will focus on the concept of FIR reverberation and on enhancing the statistics of the desired reverb, the sensation of space, and inter-aural correlation.  

Neoran has been developing professional and consumer audio processing tools since 1994, one of which is the Waves H-Reverb Hybrid Reverb plugin. FIR Reverberation, the topic of Neoran’s lecture, is among the key technologies behind H-Reverb.   

Neoran comments, “I am extremely thankful to be invited to lecture at AES. It offers me the opportunity to tell the story of Waves H-Reverb and explain how this processor enables us to control some the most important spatial qualities of reverberation, including echo density, modal density, build-up, decay shapes and stereo image.”   

To learn more: http://www.aes.org/events/139/workshops/?ID=4698. To visit Waves at the AES convention, visit Booth 437. 

Press Release- Waves Audio Announces Waves Central

Press Release - Waves Audio, a leading provider of digital signal processing solutions, announces Waves Central, a new system to replace the current Waves License Center, providing license management and plugin installation (for Waves 9.6 and above) in one easy-to-use interface.  

Until now, users had to activate their licenses through the Waves License Center, then install the plugins using the online installer or (mainly on Mac OS’s) by downloading a huge installer file.  

With the release of Waves Central, activation and installation will both be done within the new interface. Users will no longer need to download installers. They will now be able to manually install the plugins they choose, or simply click on the EASY INSTALL & ACTIVATE button to automatically install all of their licensed plugins.  

Waves Central will be available soon as a downloadable application. Waves users with an account login will be able to download the application for free from the Downloads section at Waves.com (http://www.waves.com/downloads). The same login info will be used to log in to Waves Central in order to perform product installations and license activations.  

Waves Central covers installations and activations for full products as well as product demos, and provides online installation and activation solutions, as well as solutions for offline installation and for writing licenses to a USB device (for use with computers not connected to the internet).

Press Release - The New 10MX Atomic Clock from Antelope Audio: The Culmination of Two Decades of Leadership in Digital Audio Technologies

In 1990, a University of Michigan Engineering School graduate named Igor Levin set out to make 'superior sound, simplified' by trailblazing developments in the world of digital conversion and audio clocking technology. His innovations were already recognized by a number of sound engineers around the world, when in 2005 Levin and Antelope Audio introduced the oven-controlled crystal oscillator: the most stable clocking solution ever produced. A couple of years later he revealed the benefits of Atomic clocking for the audio industry. Now, following more than two decades of refinement, Antelope announces its latest innovation in audio clocking technology: the 10MX Atomic Clock.

Press Release - The 10MX builds on Antelope's clocking legacy by fusing proven technologies and advances in industrial design to deliver a product without compromise. The new product combines the atomic precision of the legendary 10M with the sophisticated Acoustically Focused Clocking (AFC) algorithms of the Trinity into an aesthetically stunning 1U enclosure.

"The 10M Rubidium Atomic Clock and Trinity Master Clock combination has proven to be the 'gold standard' and the ultimate clocking reference in many top recording, mastering and post-production facilities around the world," commented Igor Levin, CEO and founder, Antelope Audio. "In our development of the 10MX, we wanted to raise the bar. We listened to our customers and delivered exactly what they asked for: the best features of the 10M and Trinity in a combined, 1U package."

10MX: Supporting Sampling Rates up to 768 kHz

As digital devices continue to proliferate the audio signal chain, high quality clocking solutions have never been more critical. The Antelope 10MX is perfectly suited to recording, mixing and mastering environments and is an ideal companion to a variety of live sound applications in delivering refined clarity and three-dimensionality. Housed in a compact and futuristically designed 1U rack box, the 10MX is manufactured with premium components to deliver the most stable clocking solution in the world. The new, smaller and more efficient Rubidium oscillator demands less power consumption and therefore emits less heat radiation.

The 10MX features multiple atomic outputs, enabling up to ten devices to be clocked simultaneously over 10MHz. Four BNC outputs provide Word Clock (WC) signal, supporting an astounding sampling rate of up to 768 kHz. In addition, four more WC outputs are available through AES and S/PDIF. All features on the new 10MX master clock can be accessed from either the front panel or via the included software control panel, which is available for both OS X and Windows.

The 10MX is expected to ship in mid-November and is priced at $5,995. For more information, please visit http://www.antelopeaudio.com.