For this latest development, iZotope haven’t extended the platform by adding any brand‑new processing modules, but they have substantially upgraded three of the previous ones, as well as enhancing the underlying Editor platform.

It’s that time of year when the clever people at iZotope refresh and update their impressive RX audio repair and restoration tool kit: it’s now reincarnated as RX 9, with both Standard and Advanced versions available, as usual. RX 8’s lowest quality option now is slightly better than (and takes a similar time to compute as) RX 7’s Advanced Joint Channel mode, so it’s not certain whether the processing is better per se or if there are simply a larger number of quality options here.IZotope’s popular audio restoration tool has been treated to some significant improvements. Whatever you’re using it for, the performance of v8’s Music Rebalance is far better, although the CPU cost still seems to scale the same with effectiveness. iZotope didn’t originally recommend this module as a stem isolator, but rather for performing tweaks of the levels of individual instruments when you only have a stereo file. Music Rebalance, RX 7’s best-in-class stereo file stem separator, may be seeing an upgrade due to recent competition from Acid Pro 10 and Steinberg SpectraLayers 7.

Noise really does disappear reverb really is pushed down plosives and sibilance really are completely sorted. The ERA plugins’ couldn’t-be-simpler workflow does indeed prove hugely effective.

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