With the right source material, the results can be very impressive. Hitting the Accept button commits to the group levelling and dissolves the group faders – after that, you can only change individual track volumes, pan positions and stereo width using the Visual Mixer’s control pucks. Within each group, the algorithm adjusts the gains of the component tracks to get as close to the level set by that group’s fader as possible. Immediately after analysis, you get the chance to tweak the relative levels of five arbitrary groups – Focus, Voice, Bass, Percussion and Musical – and reassign individual tracks between them if the algorithm has classified anything incorrectly. With that done, simply play your song from start to finish, then marvel as the levels and pans of every plugin are automatically set up to create a mix. The first step in the Mix Assistant’s Balance dialogue is to select tracks for inclusion and set one or more of them to be the Focus for the algorithm to keep front and centre, as it were. Via the magic of Inter-Plugin Communication, this unifies the level, pan and width controls of all running instances of Neutron (or the included Relay utility plugin), the idea being to load one onto every track, set all tracks to unity gain and centred panning, then adjust their levels and stereo positioning collectively in the Visual Mixer instead of the host DAW’s mixer.
The new Mix Assistant uses ‘intelligent’ track analysis to set up the level, pan and width controls in the Visual Mixer introduced with Neutron 2. (Image credit: Future) Performance and verdict For the most part, it’s positive and sexy stuff, but we do wish there was the option to switch back to the old decked display style for modules running in multiband mode, as having to select bands individually to view and edit their controls is a step backwards from having them all visible at once. Neutron 3 sees a radical overhaul of the GUI, with the module control panels now overlaid over the metering displays within a single pane à la Nectar (9/10, 265), enabling upscaling of the latter much smoother spectrograms and corner-drag resizing. We’re looking at the flagship Advanced here. Neutron is available in three versions: Elements, Standard and Advanced – see the iZotope website for the differences.
What’s always set it apart from other similar offerings, however, is the Track Assistant feature, which ‘intelligently’ analyses the incoming audio and creates a tailored preset for it.
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Neutron is a semi-modular channel strip boasting seven (previously six) superb processing modules – two multiband Compressors, EQ (with Dynamic mode and the excellent Masking Meter), Gate, Exciter, Transient Shaper and the new Sculptor – invoked in whatever combination and order you like (and also included as individual plugins), plus an output Limiter.
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