Ozone 12 Advanced: Upgrade from Ozone 11 Elements or ES

Upgrade from Ozone 11 Elements or Elements Suite to Ozone 12 Advanced

Go beyond the limits of mastering with Ozone 12 – your award-winning, all-in-one suite. Unlock the impossible with 20 pro modules, including 3 brand-new, best-in-class additions. Get your low end right in any listening environment with Bass Control – an industry first in easy visualization, balancing, and shaping. Revive crushed mixes with Unlimiter, a groundbreaking “undo” button for overly compressed audio. Fine-tune vocals, bass, drums, and more with Stem EQ – all without having to open up your mix. Make Master Assistant your own with a new customized flow. And shape your loudest, cleanest masters yet with Maximizer’s new IRC 5 algorithm. With intelligent tech that guides, not decides, you're always in control.

What's new in Ozone 12?

• Bass Control: ML-powered tool that solves the major pain point of controlling low-end

• Unlimiter: Industry-first tool that restores the dynamics of overly compressed audio

• Stem EQ: Separately EQs vocals, drums, bass, and instruments in a stereo audio file

• Master Assistant: “Custom” flow (pick modules, LUFS level, genre targets, etc.)

• IRC 5 Mode: Advanced limiting algorithm for clarity and impact even at high loudness

• So Much More: Ozone 12 builds on over two decades of Ozone releases!

Features

• Full mastering suite: Ozone 12 now includes 21 plugins, a mothership and 20 component plugins. Use the components as individual plugins or combine them in the mothership plugin chain for all-in-one ease.

• Lock in your low end: Bass Control makes it easier than ever to add drive, punch, and balance to your low end, regardless of your listening environment.

• Restore your dynamics: Unlimiter acts as an “undo” button for overly compressed audio, reintroducing lost dynamics with industry-first machine learning tech.

• Redefine your mix: Stem EQ prevents tedious mix fixes by giving you the control to separately EQ vocals, bass, drums, and instruments in your masters.

• Call the shots: The Custom Assistant flow creates a mastering chain to match your creative touch. Direct Master Assistant to target the right genre or reference, use specific modules, hit loudness levels, and more.

•  Louder, clearer limiting: The IRC 5 Maximizer mode is Ozone’s most advanced limiting algorithm yet, maximizing your track’s power and clarity without the usual tradeoffs.

• Cleaner stem splitting: Stem Focus modes introduced in Ozone 11 are now powered with new neural nets to offer better separation with fewer artifacts.

• New Ozone, new feel: Ozone is even more polished and intuitive, with a new design and refreshed color palette that invite you to step in and take control.

• Stabilizer module: With 25 new genre targets introduced in Ozone 12, sculpt a balanced sound with an intelligent and adaptive mastering EQ.

• Assistant View: Your Ozone preset, all in one place. The Assistant View makes it simple to pick targets and fine-tune your signal chain from Master Assistant.

• Clarity module: Effortlessly achieve a smoother master and pull the blanket off dull mixes with psychoacoustic clarity processing that never sounds harsh.

• Impact module: Enhance the rhythm and feel of your tracks by intuitively controlling microdynamics with musical envelope times.

• Transient/Sustain: Separately fine-tune Transient and Sustain content with ease, apply to any Ozone module and achieve greater control, clarity, punch, and depth.

• Assistive Vocal Balance: Never worry about vocal levels again. Master Assistant can place the vocals in the mix, with a helpful guide from the Vocal Checker.

• Ozone fan-favorites: Ozone 12 packs powerful tools from past versions, including Imager, Spectral Shaper, Match EQ, Vintage Compressor / EQ / Tape, and more.

• Tonal Balance Control 2 plugin: Meter while you mix to shape balanced levels based on tens-of-thousands of professional mixes.

Mac:

• macOS Ventura (13.7) or higher

Windows:

• Windows 10 or higher