 Ozone 10 is here and I want to tell you about my three favorite features. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. Let's do this in reverse order, finishing off with my absolute favorite and I can promise you it's worth the wait. But let's get going with some impact. Multiband compression can be both intimidating and complex to use, especially if you're a beginner. Let me know in the comments down below if you've never used multiband compression in your mastering because of this. If that's true then I think this new module for Ozone 10 called Impact could really help you out. It's essentially a multiband compressor stroke expander but without the complex controls. I'm going to start off by making some adjustments to the low end of this song by adjusting this slider here which is for this frequency range here which is the low end. When it's down below zero it's compressing and when it's up above zero it's expanding so it's making changes to the dynamic range. Have a listen and also look over this side of the display. You'll see the compression stroke expansion kicking in and then you'll see a release time, a time where it returns back to zero. Now if you couldn't quite hear what was going on there, they've got a handy little control called the Delta mode here. When you turn that on then you're not going to be hearing the original music. You're just going to hear what's changed. Now a lot of you may have struggled to hear the compression there so let's put it in the compression mode and have a listen now. Now as well as being able to see it there you can probably now hear that recovery time. Now what if you want to change that recovery time? Well they've got this feature here. I've got sync turned on at the moment and this feature the envelope feature changes the recovery time but musically it's synced to the music. So if I want to make this much more sort of punchy then I could move this down to say 132 here. Have a look at this recovery time now. How much quicker it is yet and now I'll move it up and let's put it back in the mix again. So this makes it much easier to sort of understand what's going on and possibly even hear what's going on especially if you're new to this kind of processing. Let's adjust another band now. I'm going to go for this third band here and kind of focus in on expanding that rim shop sort of snare sound that I'm getting in there. So I'm going to push this one up. Okay I'd really like to sort of hone in there on that. So I'm just going to actually zero this bass end a bit. Put delta on and have a listen. Probably get a little bit too much vocal there so I'll move this up and change this. There we go that's what I was aiming for. So again I'll put my bass back where it was. Turn off delta and have a listen. Now there's a couple of the cool things that we can do. Now that we've got that kind of sound going on that we want we can adjust them all at once and keep the relationship. Just switch on the band control here to lock them all together and now as I move these sliders they move in unison and keep their relationship with each other. Now sometimes what you want to do is make sure that things don't actually change in overall volume. You get the effect of compression or expansion but you don't want the track to suddenly sound louder okay. What you can do is turn on this auto gain feature for that and then even when I push this to extremes we're not going to start clipping. Let's have a look. So overall a very straightforward multi-band compressor that even you can use if you're just starting out. Ozone comes in a few different versions and I've got links for those in the description down below. I just want to quickly tell you as well that over the coming weeks I've got some great news about some amazing new plugins so make sure you subscribe and also ring the bell. Now let's talk about stabilizer. The new stabilizer module is intended to make EQing your track much more intuitive, musical and natural but rather than you going in here and adjusting individual EQ nodes it's going to listen to the incoming signal and make some adjustments for you okay. Let's just apply it to the R track and I'm going to start off by selecting a genre okay. I'm going to choose R and B and Sol. That's just going to help the plugin to understand what targets it's going for okay and I'm just going to use this basic control here which is the amount after I start playing my track. And you can see the adjustments it's making there and of course it is responding to the actual music before it makes those adjustments. Now we've got some other basic controls here pretty straightforward. We've got speed here which is the time it's sort of taking to adjust to the music that it's listening to so we can put up pretty fast have a listen. We've also got smoothing here which is really about detail the number of EQ bands you would be adjusting for example so just making it more smooth would be less band and then making it less smooth would be like having lots of really detailed EQ bands in there have a listen to the difference with this. Now you may have struggled to hear the difference there but I'm going to show you something in a moment which is going to help you with that but finally let's look at the rest of the controls. We've got tame transients here okay so this is about those transients like the sort of the kick there that kind of thing how quickly it's responding to those have a listen when I switch this on. Okay you could hear it there just get a little bit more punchy in that sort of kick and bass area there. Now of course you can make adjustments overall here with low middle and high band so let's say for example I'm not really happy with what it's giving me I just want the stuff that it's doing to the high end so I'll just turn down the low end and the mids there and then as I play this you'll hear and see it only adjusting the high end. Now just in case you're struggling to hear the changes which are happening here I'll just kind of zero everything again we also on this plugin as well have the Delta mode when I switch that on then you're only hearing the differences occurring so I'll turn this down and then turn it up. Now if you're still not convinced let me do this for you I'm just going to push this all up to the top or near the top there I'm just going to bypass this play the track for a while and I'll switch it back on see if you can hear the difference it's making almost in its default mode. I think that's a wonderful little difference it's making there to the overall tone of my track. There were so many other features that I could have discussed with Ozone 10 including the new soft clip feature in maximizer and the recover sides feature in imager but in the end my number one pick was a no-brainer. Take a look and see what they've done to master assistant. For the past few versions of Ozone the master assistant has been a really important aspect of it for many of us and it used artificial intelligence to get you to a starting point with your master very quickly indeed. Well I'm pleased to say they've given it a massive overhaul and I've got to tell you I reckon it gets you really close to an ending point for your master quickly and easily. Now before we actually run it I just want to note that I did play the chorus of my song through this before I started recording this segment just to get a peak level and you can see here on the left channel it got up to minus 0.6 decibels okay so pretty close to the top already I'm mentioning this because you're going to hear this track get a lot louder okay when we run this assistant but it's not going to be peaking. Let's go ahead and run the assistant by clicking on this icon in the middle here and unlike before we don't have to fill out any questionnaires to start off with all we have to do is play our audio and let it do its magic let's do that now and boom what a massive difference now when it's finished we go to this page here let me explain what's going on here first of all it's automatically tried to detect a genre for this piece of music and if we scroll down you can see that it's selected R&B stroke soul I reckon that's a pretty good guess now what's the point of that well what they're trying to do here is match some targets both in terms of tone and dynamics for this genre of music but you can change this you can change this right now and it's going to change the character of the sound let's do that now we'll start off on the R&B soul and we'll go up to the hip hop one up here let's go to pop so if you didn't guess it correctly you can just select that yourself and it's going to try and match the typical as I say tone and dynamics of that genre of music okay now we can do things on a macro level with this display for example if we go to the dynamic section here you can see it's used that impact module that we looked at earlier and now we can just blend in how much of it is used here with this kind of macro control here the same goes for our limiting with the maximizer control here now at the moment it's optimized for streaming okay so it's going to try and match what's required for services like Spotify okay so that's where we can just adjust that manually ourselves there and we've also got some adjustment over the imaging that it's applied so under the hood and we'll see this in a moment it's applied some imaging made things a little bit wider and it's set this to around about 50% at the moment but we can manually adjust that so essentially this just just gives you a really great sort of overview control personally I think for many of us we could be done here let's just bypass this for a moment and listen to how the track was sounding before and then we'll switch it on now apart from the very obvious difference in loudness there remember we still won't be peaking we've also got a lot more clarity there and there's a lot more width in this track and again we're not stuck with that but I think it's a really well honestly that would be fine for me I think it's done a really really good job now if you do want to get some fine control just go over to our regular view over here we'll just click on that and then we can go in and we can go to each module and make our adjustments individually there okay just as we always were able to before I just want to quickly mention before we finish here if we go back to this view here as well as picking those genres for our target we can also use reference tracks so we go to this icon here click on that we just load in our reference track or reference tracks and we will be doing the tone and dynamics matches to those you do have to run the wizard again for that so it can just learn what it's listening to to try and match it but again very very easy very straightforward to use and for me this gets me very close to an ending point for my master I love the phase of evolution that we're in at the moment in the beginning plugins looked and behaved like hardware counterparts then they started to look a little different but behaved in a similar way but with the most recent phase of plugins we get plugins that have capabilities beyond any hardware counterparts and they also have interfaces which suit the modern workflow as my mate Pete Johns would say welcome to the future now recently isotope also released rx10 and you can watch my review about that on the other side of the logo just here I recommend you do that right now have a great day