Izotope has introduced its RX Post-Production Suite, a comprehensive set of tools
designed specifically to help audio professionals edit, mix, and deliver better audio
for film, broadcast, video and new media. The flagship product in the suite is RX 5
Audio Editor, which represents an update to iZotope’s RX audio repair platform.
The new RX Post-Production Suite contains products aimed at every stage of the
audio post-production workflow, with solution-oriented tools for everything from
audio repair and editing, to mix enhancement and final delivery. The RX Post-
Production Suite includes: RX 5 Advanced Audio Editor, RX Final Mix, RX Loudness
Control, Groove3, and 50 free sound effects from Pro Sound Effects.
The new RX 5 Audio Editor and RX 5 Advanced Audio Editor repair and enhance
problematic production audio, while speeding up workflows that currently require
either multiple manual editing passes, or a non-intuitive collection of tools from
different vendors. RX 5 Audio Editor’s new Instant Process tool lets editors “paint
out’ unwanted sonic elements directly on the spectral display with a single mouse
gesture. The new Module Chain allows users to define a custom chain of processing
and then save that chain as a preset.
For faster workflows between Pro Tools and RX 5 Audio Editor, RX Connect has been enhanced to support individual Pro Tools clips and crossfades with any associated handles so that processed audio returns in place to the Pro Tools timeline, maintaining complete editing control.
In RX 5 Advanced Audio Editor, a new de-plosive module minimises plosives from
letters such as p, t, k, and b, in which strong blasts of air create a massive
pressure change at the microphone element, impairing the sound. The Leveler
module has been enhanced with breath and “ess’ (sibilance) detection for increased
accuracy when performing faster than real-time levelling. Enhancements for the
Ambience Match module improve accuracy for creating noise profiles when
matching background noise to mask edit points. Ambience Match is available as an
AudioSuite plug-in for constructing consistent ambience beds under constructed
sentences and ADR lines directly from within Pro Tools and Media Composer.
Both RX 5 Audio Editor and RX 5 Advanced Audio Editor can be used as a standalone audio editor, as a standalone audio editor connected to a host, or as a plug-in. Supported plug-in formats include AU, VST, VST 3, AAX, RTAS, and AudioSuite.
