Coming Soon: RX 4 and RX 4 Advanced

The next generation of an industry standard

iZotope’s Emmy Award-winning RX software is the most robust and best-sounding audio repair toolkit on the market. Musicians, sound engineers, and post production professionals all use RX to transform noisy, distorted, or flawed audio into pristine material.

Launching this September, the new RX 4 is the ultimate companion to your DAW or NLE. Speed up your workflow with intelligent new modules, time-saving new features, and deeper levels of integration with your host. Highlights include:

• Clip Gain: Easily adjust and balance the volume of vocals and instrumentals with this new non-destructive editing feature.
• Dialogue Denoiser: Reduce distracting background noise from dialogue and vocals in real time (now a standard feature with both RX 4 and RX 4 Advanced).
• RX Connect: Streamline your process with a round-trip workflow compatible with Pro Tools, Logic, and other popular hosts.
• For audio professionals in post production, music production, and mastering, the Advanced version of RX 4 boasts additional time-saving features. Reliably deliver great-sounding results with new tools like:
• Leveler: Automatically balance the volume of your mix, freeing more time for creative mix decisions.
• EQ Match: Ensure a consistent-sounding mix by seamlessly matching multiple recordings with varying sonic profiles.
  

Sounds Nice

 

It's too soon. Feels like RX3 released not long ago.

 

I wonder what the system requirements are going to be for this for Mac and PC

 

It looks like a more seamless integration with Pro Tools. I use RX3 everyday and looking forward to 4.

 

RX simply NEVER fails to impress and amaze me.

Absolutely LOVE it!

 

From the announcement posted here it seems they didn't really do anything to the algorithms?
It seems to be like RX-3 with new workflow features, but not improved noise reduction and fancy new filters.

 

Yet, from this teaser, it doesn't look that impressive. Izotope is a big enough company (as ReFX) to pack up some extra features and maybe a redesigned GUI in order to call it "the next version" which packs 50% improvement and 50% placebo effect for the same (or bigger) price. hurrayyy

P.S.: EQ Match? Bitch please... we all know that no matter how sonically close & similar two songs can be, they will still won't be able to succesfully share their sonic print eachother. It's just a "hope" feature designed for the people who naively thinks that if they'll buy this product, they just learned how to master(or mix).

 

Brillant........can't wait (Funtime), hé hé hé!

 

EQ match can be a treasure when working with guitar tones or when mastering / working on a complete album.

I'm not saying you should use the results blindly, but as a check-besides-your-ears-which-may-be-shot to see if they're consistent (or if that one song really has the extra bass punch you wanted it to have) it can be very valuable.

Like everything, the trick is to use it as a tool to get insight, not as an automatic-magic-fix utility

 

Yea', but keep in mind the fact that if your whole album packs different flavours in each song, then you'll mess up the whole album.

On mastering? I'd never do that.

Each song has its own story. It's like combining cakes with hamburgers, kebab, hotdog, stake, salad, all on the same plate. Or Different plates (songs) on a table sharing the sugar eachother while some of them are not meant to be deserts. You know what i mean, but anyway, you'll never find any serious mastering engineer to use "match eq" as a rational approach as long as they already got the best quality from each song in the mixing/mastering stage. I know anyone can be different and form his own approaches, but mastering is too sensible for this kind of approach.

And regarding an album, if you was talking about loudness levels matching, then that's a whole different story, but when you talk about EQing, then it's not ok. If you mix and master each song as great as you can, then the whole album is more than guaranteed to be great without any eq matching. If every song share THE SAME sonic footprint, then where's the diversity in the album? You don't want the audience to get bored. The only thing that songs in an album needs to share is THE QUALITY and loudness levels.

Regarding guitars, i totally agree.

 

iZotope makes brilliant software!
But lately their PRO-side shows some lacks:
– No backwards compatibility builds available (for older computers)
– The website has as got an "amateurish" look (which before was much better!)
– Website navigation is complicated, things are difficult to find.

 

Have you entered their site lately? Because is complete new and not amateurish at all.

BTW, 2 of the 3 problems you described in the PRO side are website related.

The backwards compatibility is truly an issue, but there are a lot of companies that drop early MAC versions very soon from their plans. Dunno why, maybe it's too difficult to maintain so many versions or the software require many differences in the code, I don't really know, but I'm sure they have a reason for that

 

Yes, their products are great... but i'm really curious to see this upcoming version if it's worthy of a "next version" tag.

 

It's exactly that one I mean!
This "complete new" one looks very awful, amateurish to me.

This one looked much, much better! @

Code:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130601010239/http://izotope.com/

Code:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130730181010/http://www.izotope.com/

Code:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120624062655/http://www.izotope.com/

 

It's a matter of taste only. I don't see where's the big issue here anyway, you don't like the new site...ok.

 

The new features aren't immediately worth it for me imo, EQ & loudness matching have been available for years (even in Iz Ozone4 apparently), but probably made easier to use.

Now that RX4 is actually out, I'd like to ask some questions/s.

They say "better file format support", but that's a bit vague. Does it now open multichannel (3+ch) &/ FLAC files?