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Neutron 3 standard9/1/2023 ![]() ![]() If you’re rocking the Advanced version of Neutron 3 (as opposed to its Standard or Elements incarnations), you get all these available single plugins as well, each with its own signal-analyzing Learn control. If Ozone is the industry-standard mastering effects plugin, Neutron is the same for mixing, letting you set up a re-orderable chain of effects. The ModulesĪs a channel strip, you could draw parallels between Neutron and iZotope’s Ozone package. Sure, the one-click Mix Assist function will analyze any track that contains an instance of Neutron and start setting EQ cuts, compression settings and so on, but the idea is to use Neutron as a starting point, directing you towards potential problems in a project and giving you some general processing ideas. Neutron may be advertised as an AI-endowed super toolbox, but the aim actually isn’t to have your tracks mixed automatically. Neutron is iZotope’s artificial intelligence mixing software package, comprising one master plugin, Neutron, which acts as a channel strip with some familiar processes (EQ, compression, transient shaping et al.), and a few other elements to help you take command over the mixing process in your DAW. What does iZotope’s Neutron offer in its third version and how does it manage to share a modus operandi with the UN? James Russell takes us through it. it just comes down to what works best for you and how quick do you want to get a result.This AI mixing assistance technology has been around for a while now. If a particular instrument needs some more individual adjustment, I just reroute and use an individual Neutron instance to work on transients, compression, eq.it's really not that CPU intensive to have many many instances loaded. "Big Brass Warmer" and "String Ensemble Massivizer" but keep in mind that if you want your own sound, use them as a suggestion and then tweak from there. ![]() Neutron comes with the same nice presets like Alloy did, e.g. Usually I route whole instrument groups through one bus, like Woodwinds, Strings and Brasses, then use a preset for them in Neutron as a starting point. When it comes to the individual instruments, it depends what you need. There really isn't a big difference, except the interface is new and as a bonus you have a "visual mixer" which you can use on the master bus. Mix assistant never works for me, so I just use Neutron as a replacement for Alloy which I had before. These days I try to mix by hand, just using levels to get closer to the sound I want, and so Neutron's fancy mixing tools don't offer me much. Similarly, a lot of the presets do dramatically color the mix, which is fun when you first start playing with it, but if you leave it on while making changes further up the signal chain, you end up with a fairly dishonest mix. And, I find the compressors and dynamic EQs are too heavy handed, if you are using Neutron for mix bus compression you can easily get fooled into turning things up and up and the compressor will keep squashing stuff (and still sound good) but before you know it the mix is screwed up. But, it's super heavy on CPU, has really high latency, so if you are still recording parts in VSTs or with live monitored effects the latency is unusable. I used to use it everywhere and got totally excited when the visual mixer, mix assistant, relay, etc came out and upgraded. ![]()
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