Izotope

The new audio editing software from iZotope, Music & Speech Cleaner, would be a nice companion to your video editing software. Use the scrubbing toolkit to perform quick cleanups on audio from home videos, as well as create multitrack files from your existing files.  

Hurray, Pro Tools users will have more TDM plugins to choose from, but not until early next year. D'oh. Guess they will be spending their Christmas money elsewhere.  

The thing that you will hate about recording your own stuff privately is the fact that mixing and mastering can often call for more hours than recording the piece itself. Getting that great sound in the mixing stage with a mastering plugin just would prolong your agony with its CPU intensive nature and inherent latency. The new iZotope Alloy helps you cut down on mixing time with its useful suite of effects and the promise of efficiency with just one plugin.  

Time stretching and pitch shifting are fun and useful applications in the studio, whether you are rehearsing, writing a new and recording a new piece of music, or just plain noodling around. Making your Logic Pro or Soundtrack Pro powerful in manipulating your perception of time is iZotope Radius, a new time-stretching / pitch-shifting application.  

The iPhone is truly paving a way towards a new musical revolution, and this time it involves beatboxers. The iZotope iDrum Beatboxing Editing has now been released to either satisfy or compete with your beatboxing sensibilities.  

Announced back at the 125th AES convention, iZotope Ozone 4 promised to save the world from harsh, destructive audio with its updated suite of mastering software. Will iZotope deliver on that promise? Now that they're delivering on their software, you'll be able to find out.  

I tell ya, a real time, adaptive noise reduction system sure could come in handy on the 125th AES Convention's exhibitors floor. Even with the constant din of audio commerce going on in the background, this demonstration of the iZotope ANR-B makes quite an impression.  

While Planet Earth still chugs along with its "version one" ozone layer, iZotope is already announcing Ozone version 4. Depending on whether you're a Palin supporter or not, the Earth has either 4,000,000,000 or 6,000 years of catchup work to do.  

The Apple iBandwagon gets one fuller with the iZotope iDrum application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. You guys want a stock market tip? This "Apple" company looks like a real go-getter. Invent a time machine and tell yourself to invest!  

Bill "Big Country" Holland busts out some of his old square dancing favorites to clean up some noise with iZotope RX's denoiser. Put on your buckaroo boots and get ready for some good, clean fun. Now promenade!  

In accordance with Elton Brand's hatred for ear fatigue, he has signed a contract extension with Los Angeles with the term that the team must now be called the Los Angeles DeClippers. Frankie Muniz was unavailable for comment as he was getting his mohawk polished.  

Bill puts Izotope RX through a rigorous clinical trial in the controlled environment of Gearwire Studio. Will Bill give this restoration software his full FDA (Flippin' Dope Audio) approval?  

Anyone who knows how to take a screenshot can take me on mano e mano in the iZotope RX Spectrogram Screenshot Contest. Anyone who doesn't need only read this article to change his or her life forever and possibly win a free t-shirt.  

We continue our examination of the iZotope Ozone 3 mastering plugin where Gearwire's Bill Holland focuses in on paragraphic EQ. Watch and learn as Bill navigates and creates different curves and more.  

The iZotope Ozone 3 plugin can put the final touches on your mixes. Bill Holland checks out Ozone 3 and readies you for a closer look by previewing the plug and its credentials.  

The iZotope RX is a complete audio restoration application that takes no prisoners when audio problems are abound. The tools in RX are more powerful in terms of processing than any plug-in based products, and with redefined...  

iZotope's ANR-B debuts at AES. It is an adaptive realtime noise reduction unit that seeks and destroys broadband noise, hum, phone line artifacts and other noisy characters to increase your broadcast quality.

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