iZotope Ozone 5 Complete Mastering System

Meter Bridge [Advanced only feature]

Ozone 5 Advanced takes metering to a new level, offering two convenient options for visualizing your mix. First there's Insight, iZotope's essential metering suite, included as a separate component plug-in fully dedicated to metering. Secondly, there's the Meter Bridge, available as a powerful metering view to reference whenever you're working within Ozone 5 Advanced.

As a dedicated metering plug-in, Insight provides a full suite of audio analysis and metering tools. Ideal for post production and broadcast applications, Insight is perfect for visualizing changes made during mixing and mastering, troubleshooting problematic mixes, and ensuring compliance with broadcast loudness standards. Fully customizable and scalable, Insight allows you to visually monitor all relevant information from your stereo or surround mix in a convenient floating window.

Immediately detect potential mix problems through real-time visual monitoring and color-coded alerts.
Ensure your audio is fully compliant with current loudness standards with forward-thinking tools that adhere to standards like BS.1770-1/2/3.
Perform deep and flexible analysis with zoomable meters and the ability to route audio from any tracks or buses to Insight.
Design your ideal metering plug-in by choosing the meters you want to view, customizing them, and resizing the Insight window to fit your current workflow.
Get an extensive suite of metering tools in a single plug-in, including True Peak Meters, Loudness Meters, Loudness History Graph, Stereo Vectorscope, Surround Scope, 2D/3D Spectrogram, and Spectrum Analyzer.
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Located directly within the Ozone 5 Advanced plug-in, the Meter Bridge view provides a wide array of customizable audio analysis tools. Visually monitor your mix throughout the entire mastering process, whether you're making adjustments, troubleshooting problematic mixes, or comparing your mixes to reference tracks. As a bonus, the Meter Bridge serves as an enlightening educational device for anyone hoping to learn more about the art of mastering.

Building on essential visualizations from Ozone's individual modules, the Meter Bridge includes an exciting array of new metering tools in a convenient, resizable, and configurable window.

Spectrogram

Unlike typical "waterfall" plots, Ozone's unique real-time 3D spectrogram creates a detailed topographical map of audio using iZotope's high-resolution spectrogram capabilities. Unfamiliar with a spectrogram? Watch our video to learn more.

Choose between high-resolution and real-time 2D or 3D scrolling spectrogram plots.
Perform detailed inspections with Freeze and Zoom modes.
Easily examine Gain values by frequency with a convenient mouse pointer readout.
Rest easy: Ozone 5 Advanced takes advantage of video card graphics processing for full-screen 3-dimensional metering, leaving more processing power for your audio.

Meter Taps

For eye-popping visual insight, feed information on multiple audio streams to the Spectrogram via Ozone Advanced's special Meter Tap plug-ins. With Ozone on your master bus, add Meter Tap plug-ins to individual tracks or buses, then open the Meter Bridge to see how mix elements combine in rich Spectrogram detail...all in real-time!

Use overlay, tile, or stack views to compare different Meter Tap streams and see their relationships, then bring different audio streams into focus to see how each fits in the mix.
Tailor the display to your preferences with customizable colors.

Vectorscope

The Meter Bridge's resizable and undocked Vectorscope provides useful display options for examining the stereo image of your mix.

Lissajous and Polar modes provide multiple visualizations of stereo field activity and activity history.
Stereo Balance meters illustrate the balance between Left and Right channels.
Correlation meters indicate the degree of similarity between Left and Right channels.
Quickly diagnose mono and/or phase compatibility issues.

Spectrum Analyzer

The Meter Bridge also includes a completely resizable (including full-screen) real-time spectrum analyzer.

Variable zoom by both time and frequency.
Mid/Side, Left/Right, Linear, octave band options and more.
Completely independent settings from Ozone's EQ spectrum display.
Spectrum True Fill shows an accurate overview of high frequency information.

Loudness and Stereo Meters

Ozone 5 Advanced continues to extend Ozone's high-resolution stereo loudness metering.

Options include K-System, BS.1770-2, True Peak, and RMS.
BS.1770-2 metering is compliant with recommendations by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-R BS.1770-2) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU R128) for determining subjective program loudness and true-peak signal level.

COMPONENT PLUG-INS	Equalizer component plug-in
	Maximizer component plug-in
	Dynamics component plug-in
	Reverb component plug-in
	Stereo Imaging component plug-in
	Exciter component plug-in
METER BRIDGE	Full-screen configurable Meter view
	Undocked Vectorscope with Stereo Balance/Correlation meters
	ITU BS.1770-2 and EBU R128 stereo Program Loudness metering
	Spectrum view with separate configuration options from the EQ's spectrum
	Meter Tap plug-ins for routing audio streams from buses/tracks to Ozone's spectrogram
	Ability to see multiple meter streams overlaid on 2D or 3D spectrogram
	Scrolling 2D spectrum with overlay, stack and tile modes
EQUALIZER	Analog-matched frequency response for all filter types
	Vintage Low and High Shelf filters with variable "Cut" control
	Extra-steep "brickwall" analog Low- and High-Pass filters
	Flat Low- and High-Pass filters with variable slope
	New Snapshots panel with easier EQ snapshot workflow
	Improved, simplified Matching EQ feature
	Mini Info Panel for easy access to active EQ band's settings
	Ability to zoom by time and frequency for precise equalization
	Separate EQ settings for left/right channels
	Second Post EQ in signal chain for post-dynamics/exciter shaping
	Zoomable spectrum in EQ
	New Spectrum options including Left/Right and Mid/Side modes
	Phase Response, Phase Delay and Group Delay plots
	Analog filter shapes in Digital EQ mode (linear and mixed phase)
	Mixed-Phase EQ: vary between minimum, linear and maximum phase per band
MAXIMIZER	IRC III Limiting mode: new psychoacoustic algorithm with transient preservation
	Gain Reduction Trace view: shows gain reduction over time
	Spectrum view
	Stereo Link: allows variance between fully independent left/right limiting and linked limiting
	Transient Recovery: introduces transient shaping to preserve sharp attacks
DITHER	Additional Dither noise-shaping curves
	Dither Shape view
EXCITER	Improved sound quality in all Exciter modes
	Natural-sounding Peak Saturation: adds harmonics without drastic gain changes
	Post-Saturation High Shelf filter: for additional harmonic shaping
	Saturation Spectrum display: shows excitation by frequency
	Refined Tube, Tape, Retro, and Warm algorithms
	Oversampling mode prevents aliasing
	Circuit-modeled Triode and Dual Triode Exciter modes
STEREO IMAGING	New Vectorscope modes: Polar Level, Polar Sample
	Anti-phase prevention
	Stereo Width Spectrum view
	Correlation Trace view shows mono-compatibility over time
	Stereo Balance meter
	Phase Rotation allows phase fine-tuning to optimize asymmetrical waveforms' loudness
	Stereoize mode: natural sounding, mono-compatible widening for narrow/mono sources
DYNAMICS	Greatly-improved workflow includes always-visible Attack and Release controls
	All Bands mode shows most crucial controls for every band in one view
	Gain Reduction Trace shows dynamics characteristics superimposed on waveform
	Interactive Threshold provides intuitive control over all dynamics stages
	Improved Gain Reduction meter with input/output and overlaid histogram options
	Hard/Soft Knee selection
	New upward compression boosts levels as they fall below the threshold
	Limiter Boost pushes up threshold-crossing levels when Limiter ratio is set to the left
	Variable Knee control for each Dynamics stage and each band
	True Envelope detection algorithm: flat frequency response and low distortion
	Detection circuit High Pass filter with variable slope and frequency
	"Tilt" mode (similar in style to the "API Thrust" detection circuit filter)
REVERB	New Modeled Reverb algorithm: provides realistic early reflections with smooth decay
	Improved Plate and Room modes and new Hall mode
	3 additional modeled spaces: Theater, Cathedral and Arena
	Independent control over early reflections
	Cross-mix control for more control over stereo image
PRESETS AND ROUTING	All Global Presets updated to take advantage of new DSP and features
	Many new genre-specific presets added to Global Presets
	Improved Amount controls make adjusting presets simple
	Module Presets: each mastering module has dedicated preset saving and loading
	Over 80 new Module Presets included
	Select independent or shared crossovers for multiband modules
	Move Module Presets between Ozone Advanced and Ozone Advanced's components

Spectrogram

Meter Taps

Vectorscope

Spectrum Analyzer

Loudness and Stereo Meters

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