iZotope Ozone 12 introductory sale:

[bluzdog]

Pricing aside, I'll go against the grain here. Ozone 12 looks pretty cool and they added some killer features. Stem EQ is a game changer.

 

[Starship Krupa]

On 9/3/2025 at 4:34 AM, Carl Ewing said:

"Version 12" for a plugin shouldn't even be a thing.

Ozone is not "a plugin." Ozone, Neutron, Nectar, and RX are all suites. iZotope calls them that.

I agree with some of what people are saying here. The need to keep every version of every iZotope suite I've ever owned is a PITA, and it would be great if they could somehow fix that.

For individual plugins, I don't care how high the version numbers get as long as they're not trying to charge me for upgrades in name only (Waves). Ozone 12 looks to have some interesting additions, and if I were a pro who used Ozone I'd likely snag it.

But I'm a hobbyist who has Ozone Advanced and has not touched it in over a year. To me, it's a GREAT tool for applying to rough mixes to sweeten them up. Since the dismantling of my recording space, I haven't been recording anyone else, so no need for rough mixes.

As for the individual plug-ins in the suite, they look great and sound great, but they are resource hogs. iZotope really needs to tighten their code. It was so disappointing to try Neoverb when I finally got it and see how they had wrapped the ecellent Exponential algorithms in their signature bloat code.

Edited 17 hours ago by Starship Krupa

[Fleer]

11 hours ago, bluzdog said:

Pricing aside, I'll go against the grain here. Ozone 12 looks pretty cool and they added some killer features. Stem EQ is a game changer.

 

Doesn’t seem to work properly, at least according to the mastering masters on Gearslutz.