The first big sign of this is the removal of the flagship Spectral Repair Audiosuite plug-in for ProTools from V4. I assume this means iZotope will, over time, minimise its host based plug-ins, making RXвЂ™s ongoing development simpler.

RX4 changes all that with its new Connect system that encourages users to migrate to the standalone app, while still linking into their DAW of choice. Although a standalone app has been available for several versions now, many ProTools operators preferred to use Audiosuite inside their DAW for rendering fixes, storing presets with sessions and templates, and preventing yet another application from chewing up processing on an older вЂtiredвЂ™ computer. Key to the version four release is a fairly dramatic change in workflow. The latest incarnation, RX4 is a suite of diverse plug-ins and a standalone app, but the relationship between the two has changed with this update. Far from it, RX produced solid results and soon gathered a massive following. When RX came onto the scene with a price tag around $500, the first impression when comparing it to the big names was it didnвЂ™t seem to be 90% worse. There were always a few cheaper options from Waves and the like, but none seemed to вЂcut through the noiseвЂ™ until iZotope debuted its RX suite.

But the price of admission was up there, often north of $5000 and stayed there for years.

If you go back a few years, the major names in noise reduction were Sonic Solutions and Cedar. Now itвЂ™s trying to entice RX users further into its standalone app by laying out some new treats. IZotope is well and truly established as a noise reduction force.

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