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Industry | Software industry/SIP licensing |
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Founded | 1 January 2001 ![]() |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Audio middleware |
Parent | Native Instruments |
Website | www |
iZotope, Inc. is an audio technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. iZotope develops professional audio software for audio recording, mixing, broadcast, sound design, and mastering which can be used in wide range of digital audio workstation (DAW) programs. In addition, iZotope creates and licenses audio DSP technology including noise reduction, sample rate conversion, dithering, time stretching, and audio enhancement to hardware and software companies in the consumer and pro audio industries.
In 2023 iZotope was acquired by Native Instruments. [1]
Product name | Release date | Description |
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Alloy 2 | August 14, 2012 [2] | channel strip plugin with EQ, Transient Shaper, Dynamics, Exciter, Limiter, and De-Esser |
ANR-B | May 10, 2007 [3] | iZotope's only hardware unit — adaptive realtime noise reduction for broadcast audio |
BreakTweaker | January 23, 2014 [4] | drum sculpting and beat sequencing machine that blurs the line between rhythm and melody |
DDLY Dynamic Delay | February 9, 2016 [5] | responds to track musical dynamics to create unique delays |
Insight | November 13, 2012 [6] | CALM Act compliant essential metering suite |
Insight 2 | September 13, 2018 [7] | |
Iris 2 | November 19, 2014 [8] | spectral sampling re-synthesizer featuring spectral selection tools |
Nectar | November, 2010 [9] | vocal production suite |
Nectar 2 | October 18, 2013 [10] | |
Nectar 3 | October 16, 2018 | |
Neoverb | October 2, 2020 [11] | reverb plug-in that combines industry-leading Exponential Audio technology with an intuitive, AI-powered workflow |
Neutron | October 5, 2016 [12] | audio mixing plug-in suite including advanced analysis and metering |
Neutron 2 | October 5, 2017 [13] | |
Neutron 3 | June 6, 2019 [14] | |
Neutron 4 | June 2, 2022 | |
Ozone 7 | November 3, 2015 [15] | mastering suite with equalizer and dynamic eq, dynamics processing, exciter, spectral shaping processor, imager, maximizer, track referencing system and mastering assistant |
Ozone 8 | October 5, 2017 [13] | |
Ozone 9 | October 3, 2019 [16] | |
Ozone 10 | September 13, 2022 [17] | |
RX 6 | April 20, 2017 [18] | audio restoration suite |
RX 7 | September 13, 2018 | |
RX 8 | September 2, 2020 [19] | |
RX 9 | October 14, 2021 | |
RX 10 | September 7, 2022 [17] | |
RX 11 | May 14, 2024 [20] | |
Stutter Edit | January 13, 2011 [21] | sample stutter effects and slicing |
Stutter Edit 2 | June 24, 2020 [22] | |
Tonal Balance Control | October 5, 2017 [13] | visual analysis tool measuring the distribution of energy across frequency spectrum, comparing audio to program-specific or custom-created targets |
Tonal Balance Control 2 | May 5, 2020 [23] | |
Trash 2 | November 19, 2012 | 64-bit modeling of guitar amplifiers, distortions, delays and filters |
Vinyl | February 1, 2001 [24] | record simulation and lo-fi effect |
Vocalsynth 2 | May 23, 2018 [25] | Color and shape vocals to the point of unrecognizable, using vocoder, talkbox, and other features. Includes a full suite of stompbox-style studio effects. |
iZotope's software can be used with Pro Tools, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cubase, Nuendo, WaveLab, Studio One, Adobe Audition, Reaper, FL Studio, Ableton Live, Reason etc. iZotope is compatible with most software that use VST or VST3 files.
iZotope introduced an iPhone-driven physical recording device, branded Spire Studio. The small, portable device works wirelessly with iZotope's Spire iOS app and includes 4GB of storage and an internal microphone, as well as audio inputs for connecting external instruments or microphones. Spire Studio is targeted to musicians, small bands, and home recordists, as well as the podcasting and meeting sectors.
iZotope licenses its software and technology licensing, offering development of technology for Mac and Windows platforms, mobile, video game, and embedded DSP. Clients have included Sony, Adobe, Xbox, Harmonix, [37] Smule, Sonoma Wire Works, and most recently, Blue Microphones. [38] Algorithms are delivered as a plugin or SDK for easy implementation. To date, iZotope technology has shipped in nearly 68 million products worldwide. [39]
iZotope has audio technology readily available in the form of VST, DirectX, AudioUnits, RTAS or AudioSuite plug-ins. Typical uses for licensed technology for Mac or PC applications include audio finalizing, music production, audio for video, presentation audio, metering to address broadcast loudness standards, and media playback. Categories of available licensed technologies include audio enhancement, voice enhancement, audio repair tools, creative tools, DJ tools, audiophile tools, time manipulation and audio for video.
iZotope has developed plugins for use directly in Audiokinetic WWise for audio enhancement, voice effects occlusion and room modeling. In addition, iZotope has developed sound design tools and special effects for sound designers using the FMOD middleware engine. For middleware engines supporting XAudio and Multistream formats, iZotope has a collection of licensable DSP for use in music related games or karaoke.
Noise reduction DSP is available for use in hardware using Analog Devices SHARC and Blackfin processors. In 2012, iZotope embedded Adaptive Noise Reduction and Keyboard Click Reduction technologies on Blue Microphones' Tiki USB Mic. [44]
Mac and PC | Video games | Mobile |
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