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Izotope Neutron

Intelligent Mixing Tool – iZotope Neutron

iZotope’s award winning, research-driven audio technology includes a suite of products that give you new ways of treating your mixes with intelligent tools for modernizing and elevating your sound. Included in their product line is Izotope Neutron (available at Plugin Boutique here: Izotope Neutron at Plugin Boutique). Neutron vst is a versatile mixing plugin consisting of multiple sound shaping modules and powerful audio analysis tools including Track Assistant, Masking Meter and the Visual Mixer.

Neutron is part of iZotope’s line of intelligent DSP plugins for Windows and Mac, available in AAX, RTAS, VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit formats. Additionally, the plugins are offered separately as well as in bundles such as the Music Production Suite and 08N2. Each plugin comes in three versions: Elements, Standard and Advanced, each adding additional features. For simplicity, I’ll focus on the Standard level of Izotope Neutron. Furthermore, the feature comparison charts on the iZotope website will give you details for each version.

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Finding Authenticity In Writing Production Music

by Will Benoit

One of the most important parts in the process of composing production music is keeping your tracks fresh and exciting after turning out so many pieces of music. But to me, the most important part is getting your tracks to sound consistent within the aesthetic of the genre you are writing in. Whether it’s EDM, Hip Hop, Rock, or any other genre, the song needs to sound a certain way in order to feel authentic.

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FabFilter Pro-R Reverb

by Charlotte McMillan

I’ve recently been exploring FabFilter’s algorithmic reverb Pro-R Reverb. It comes in VST, VST3, AU, AAX Native and AudioSuite formats (in 64- as well as 32-bit). RTAS is available as 32-bit only. I used it as an AU plugin with Digital Performer 9.1. as well as with Vienna Ensemble Pro 5.4.1 on a desktop Mac with OS 10.7.5.

Keeping with Fabfilter tradition, Pro-R’s GUI is gorgeous. A dark blue window (which can be resized up to full screen) displays the controls across the top, and a spectrum analyzer occupies the window’s bottom two thirds. The aesthetic appeal is strong, especially the visualization of the cascading reverb lines in the “reverb+post” mode.

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EMBERTONE INTIMATE STRINGS – REVIEW

Embertone Strings by PJG

In the last few years, Embertone has specialized in detailed, affordable virtual instruments: from the classic sound of the clarinet to the exoticism of the erhu and the insanity of the mouth trumpet – their products are always deeply sampled and beautiful scripted. And during all this time their solo strings have been Embertone’s flagship, starting with Friedlander Violin in 2013 and finishing with Leonid Bass early this year. Completing the series, Blakus Cello and Fischer Viola: it is always nice when libraries give their performers proper due.

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Soniccouture – Box of Tricks

By David Christiansen

Sometimes virtual instruments are created for artists for studio work, albums, sometimes live performances and later on they are released. Imogen Heap’s Box of Tricks is such a library and an extraordinary instrument created of her in cooperation with Soniccouture. After three years of refining 13 Kontakt instruments are release. The library consists of 30GB of sampled material and comes in a 12.7GB download. Kontakt 5.5 or later is required to run the instruments.

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