When Did Izotope Rx Come Out
iZotope’s RX has established itself as the premiere audio repair software - its collection of cutting-edge tools and spectral processing capabilities has been used to clean up and improve countless bits of problem audio over the years. The latest version, RX6, adds a number of significant new features and processors to the party so let’s take a look at what’s on hand in this update.
The RX6 Family
First off, RX6 is now available in four versions. The top-of-the-line is RX6 Advanced, which contains all the processing modules available for RX, including the new ones, for the most full-featured set of tools. RX6 Standard offers a slightly smaller subset of the full toolbox for a reduced price, but it does contain most of the key modules, including the ones RX is best known for like Spectral Repair. For those on an even more modest budget, RX6 Elements is a smaller collection of basic repair tools, perfect for quickly cleaning up the most common flaws in typical recordings. A full comparison chart is available on the iZotope website. In addition to these options, for post production pros, RX6 Advanced is also available as part of the RX Post Production Suite 2, which also includes Neutron Advanced, Loudness Control and Insight.
General Features
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RX6 (I’ll be describing RX6 Advanced here), just like previous versions of RX, consists of a standalone application with a collection of processing “modules”, each of which offers a targeted solution to a specific audio issue. Many of these are also available as plug-ins in all the standard formats (AAX, AU, VST), for use in realtime within your DAW of choice. When processing needs to be in the standalone (some of the more advanced types of audio tweakery, including the graphic techniques of Spectral Repair), RX6 provides a way to quickly transfer audio back and forth between the DAW and RX6 standalone - this varies in different DAWs, from using the RX Connect plug-in to assigning RX6 as the designated external audio editor.
Within the standalone, there are numerous features for enhancing workflow. Module Chains (savable as presets, as are all module settings) let the user assemble and quickly apply a string of modules, speeding up tasks that involve multiple processing. RX6 offers additional workflow improvements: an improved Find All Similar helps to quickly locate similar problems in a longer audio file, and there are new options for displaying the extensive module list by user category.
RX6 also introduces Composite View, a quick way to simultaneously process multiple files. While RX has always had batch processing capabilities via a dedicated window, Composite View is a more efficient way to temporarily group all open files together and apply processing to them all at once. While there are a few common sense restrictions, it could speed up workflow for many tasks that need to be performed across multiple bits of audio.
New Modules
Naturally, RX6 includes all the modules from previous versions, including (among others) De-click, De-clip, De-hum, De-plosive, De-reverb, Spectral and Voice De-noise, Deconstruct, and of course Spectral Repair as well as its collection of utility modules like Leveler, Loudness, Time & Pitch, Resample, EQ Match and many additional general-purpose modules. Some of these have incremental improvements - De-click, De-plosive, Voice De-noise, Ambience Match, Deconstruct and Center Extract all benefit from tweaks to their engines (I particularly noticed the difference in De-click).
To this already comprehensive collection of audio tools RX6 has added several new Modules: De-ess and Breath Control are broken out of the Leveler modules into separate modules with more comprehensive controls; Mouth De-click does the regular De-click one better, being targeted specifically to lipsmacks and other mouth-related clicks and noises; De-rustle and De-wind provide solutions for particular post production issues; Dialog Isolate pulls a voice up and/or out of a busy background; and De-bleed addresses that all-too-familiar problem of leakage, like from headphones worn during a recording. Each of these offers something specifically targeted to a particular problem so let’s take a quick look at them.
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Jul 18, 2019 RX has many algorithms and processes for cleaning up audio, but it also offers two distinct modes of operatio—as a plug-in and as a standalone app. Certain modules like Spectral Repair are standalone app only, while tools like Voice De-noise work in your DAW. So when do you use RX as a plug-in or in standalone? Ultimately, it’s your call. But it pays to be informed.
De-ess & Breath Control
Apr 28, 2017 iZotope’s RX has established itself as the premiere audio repair software - its collection of cutting-edge tools and spectral processing capabilities has been used to clean up and improve countless bits of problem audio over the years. When did the RX series come out? JT: 2007, with the RX 1. That was our first restoration product, which had some really exciting features and was also the first standalone application we'd made. For the first time, customers didn't have to be in a DAW. But, at the same time, RX provided plug-ins that were compatible with every DAW on the market.
In previous versions of RX, the Leveler module included simple ess-reduction and breath control options - basically just on-off and a sensitivity slider - but these new dedicated modules offer a lot more user control. De-ess provides settings for fine-tuning the frequency and speed of the de-essing, and it also offers a new Spectral De-essing mode, which applies spectral analysis and processing to the task of isolating and eliminating harsh sibilance. This can potentially make for more effective de-essing, with controls that allow the user to shape and tilt the spectral character of the sibilance, for more natural results. The new Breath Control module adds options for both amount of breath reduction and sensitivity to breath sounds, which seemed to me to isolate breaths even more precisely than the older version.
Mouth De-click
I’d never been able to get the regular De-click module in previous RX versions to reliably eliminate that problem on my own voice, but not only does the improved De-click do a better job, the dedicated Mouth De-click module works like a charm! Even at its default settings, this module seems to nail every bit of audio I’ve thrown at it, and it also provides additional controls to fine tune the detection and processing - whatever iZotope has done to tweak the general de-clicking algorithm to address dedicated mouth sounds, it seems to make a significant difference.
De-rustle & De-wind
These two are primarily for post production use, though of course they could come in handy on any application that suffers from those issues. De-rustle is aimed at removing or reducing the rustling sound of clothing rubbing up a lavalier mic. Like a number of the new modules, this addresses background noise that’s more irregular, and wouldn’t be handled as well by the standard De-noise modules, which do better learning & processing more steady, regular unwanted background sound. With a couple of files I threw at it, De-rustle was able to deal successfully with even fairly intrusive noise. A nice feature is an Ambience Preservation control, which allows De-rustle to remove rustling sounds while leaving other (possibly desirable) ambient sound intact.
De-wind addresses the problem of wind noise in outdoor recordings - the irregular and intrusive rumbling from wind shaking a mic’s diaphragm. With a couple of torture-test files I threw at it that suffered from especially loud wind noise, De-wind acquitted itself admirably - it should have no trouble with more typical subtle wind problems. A Fundamental Recovery control helps to restore any fullness in a voice lost to more aggressive processing, and Artifact Smoothing (a control common to many modules) helps to mitigate any hint of the watery-sounding artifact that sometimes accompanies this kind of FFT-based audio processing.
Dialog Isolate
This ambitious module lets you isolate a voice from background sound in a recording, or even vice-versa - pull a voice out of a recording, leaving just background sound (or music). Once again, unlike the existing Voice De-noise Module, Dialog isolate is tuned to be more effective with irregular background sound, rather than the regular noise the De-noise modules are designed to address.
And it works surprisingly well. I was able to substantially reduce the level of some especially intrusive background noise (subway train going by, loud voices is an ambient room), drawing out the primary voice until the background was, if not completely gone, largely unnoticeable; with less egregious examples of background sound, Dialog Isolate should be able to fully eliminate the undesirable noise. I wouldn’t necessarily expect it to be able to, say, completely lift a vocal out of a busy mix, especially one that’s somewhat buried in the mix, but considering how well it did isolating two voices (interviewer and subject) from background voices that were practically as loud as the main voices, it’s well worth trying on any recording - as with many of these processes, sometime multiple passes can provide an extra degree of effectiveness.
De-bleed
Finally, the new De-bleed module addresses the familiar issue of leakage, or bleed. As everyone knows, this can come from headphones during a recording (especially if a singer removes one earcup unnoticed, as they’re often inclined to do), in the form of the rough mix that was playing through the cans, or as the dreaded sound of a click track. Acoustic leakage, from other instruments in a live session, can also compromise the integrity of a track. But De-bleed can come to the rescue, if you’re careful to set it up properly.
De-bleed requires two files to do its thing: an “Active” track - the recording with the unwanted bleed - and a “Bleed Source” track - the track that contains the original audio that leaked into the Active track. For example, in a scenario with, say, an acoustic guitar recording that was cut to a click track in headphones, the guitar, naturally would be the Active track, and the original click track the Bleed Source. With a recording of a singer with bleed from a rough mix, the mix itself would be the Bleed Source. Both files must be loaded into RX6 (currently, De-bleed only works in the standalone version), and to be most effective, they need to be time-aligned. When I tested this, I bounced down the appropriate section of a leaked mix and lined it up with the vocal (which was an overdub) in the DAW, and then brought both files into the RX6 Advanced application.
And it worked! De-bleed Learned the profile of both tracks, and even though the bleed in my test file was quite loud (the singer had removed one earcup), and my Bleed Source mix file was not really the exact same rough mix as the one that had leaked into the vocal recording (I’d reconstructed it after-the-fact), De-bleed almost completely eliminated the leakage, especially under the vocal, where it really counted.
Wrap-up
So that’s what’s new and exciting in RX6 - while some of the new modules might seem at first glance to be merely refinements of existing features, in practice most offer significantly improved performance, along with much greater flexibility. And Dialog Isolate and De-bleed really do take audio repair to the next level. RX6 should be part of any audio engineer’s collection of tools, and with the various versions available, there’s no excuse not to have at least some of its features available for cleaning up your tracks and making them shine!
Price: RX6 Advanced: $1199 (regular); $799 (sale price)
RX6 Standard: $399 (regular); $299 (sale price)
RX6 Elements: $129 (regular); $99 (sale price)
RX Post Production Suite 2 (incl RX6 Adv): $1499 (regular); $999 (sale price)
Pros: Powerful collection of cutting edge tools for audio repair
Cons: Smaller/budget versions may omit that one feature you really wanted
Web:https://www.izotope.com/en/products/repair-and-edit/rx.html
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It's been quite some time since we last checked in with you. Can you briefly let us know what you have been up to?
I'm lucky to be able to say it's been a busy few years; I've been coproducer (alongside Trent Reznor and Alan Moulder) on three Nine Inch Nails albums (Year Zero, Ghosts and the Slip), some new recordings by Jane's Addiction and also did a bunch of programming on Trent's production of Saul Williams. I've done two coproductions with Joe Barresi - the forthcoming Coheed and Cambria album 'Year of The Black Rainbow' and an EP called 'Human Nurture' from a London based band called Loverman. Also did the Korn album 'Untitled' and an as of yet unreleased album 'The Anti Fire' by Union of Knives. I've done a little bit of remixing: Grace Jones' 'Corporate Cannibal', Telepathe's 'Michael' and Dillinger Escape Plan's 'Unretrofied'. Also started to do some work for TV and film, mostly for the directors the Hughes Brothers. Writing with my wife Claudia Sarne and my brother Leopold we did their TV show 'Touching Evil', their vignette for the movie 'New York I Love You' and their current film 'The Book of Eli'. Also worked on Perry Farrell's track for the movie 'Twilight'.
Has working with new mediums changed your focus as an artist since our last interview?
I've never had some big game plan so not really - I just try to do things that seem like they may be interesting and fun and that I may be able to contribute to in some way. The film stuff is just something that happened rather than by any design. I really enjoyed it and I hope I get to do more but I don't view it as a change in direction - more like an addition. I start another record on Monday and I'm very much looking forward to it.
As for your recent movie work, you scored the entire soundtrack for 'The Book of Eli' starring some Hollywood A-listers. That album has been described as a blend of 'electronic elements with traditional instruments, leading to a truly unique hybrid that's only fitting for a post-apocalyptic Western.'What was your inspiration for scoring this film?
The inspiration really came from spending time with the directors before the movie production started. We'd go through different ideas and swap albums, scores, DVDs etc. of stuff we liked. Beyond the script they had also put together a detailed 'Look Book' with various photographs and drawings as well as some writing and quotes which conjured up the kind of world they were going for. We had to try and find a musical companion for it and did the first chunk of writing leading into the start of the shoot - I think we delivered about ten tracks of which three (or some version of them) ended up in the film. I don't know how other people do it but that initial writing was very important as it gave us a place to start from and a kind of road map to develop once the picture started coming in. There was one piece written in that first batch, called 'Panoramic', that they particularly loved - it became the main theme and set the tone for what followed. There's a certain consistency in terms of the mood, which is deliberate, and that allowed us to move between the different instrumentation and eventually the orchestra.
What as the recording process like with such a varied instrumentation?
The great majority of it was done at my home studio, which is my favorite place to work. It's not flash but I have everything I need there - we only left to do live drums (at Joe Barresi's studio) and the orchestra (at Abbey Road). My wife and brother also have writing spaces in the house and it was a really fun and creative time passing ideas back and forth. Everything would end up in my room for the final recordings - any limitations studio wise just encouraged inventiveness and I think in some ways the lack of experience in movie scoring worked in our favor. I had no idea if we were doing it in the 'right' way, and like all things I don't know if that even exists, but it sounded good to me, seemed to work well with the picture and kept somewhat to the roadmap I'd discussed with the Hughes Brothers. Obviously there were some bumps along the way but for the most part the direction was pretty focused and everyone involved with the movie seemed excited by the results. After a few months up at the house we found ourselves sitting in Abbey Road recording with an 80 piece orchestra which was surreal but definitely one of the best musical experiences I've had.
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Did you use any iZotope products in the recordings?
The Hughes brothers wanted a very textured score, which is the kind of music I love. My brother had got a couple of looper pedals and became excellent at using them to generate a certain type of weirdness, the only problem was a clicking as the different layers were introduced. Some of the best pieces would have been rendered useless if it were not for RX. I also found myself using RX on some of the work I've done with Barresi - he has the most incredible collection of vintage amps but there were a couple times when the noise to signal ratio was just a little unacceptable, even by my standards. Where RX stands out to me is that I am able to get rid of, or greatly reduce, what I don't want without affecting what I do want. All the iZotope stuff would have been used at some stage or another but my favorite one, and one of my favorite plug-ins, is still Trash. I notice you call it a toolbox on the website and that's fair enough - I love the different sounds I can get with the distortions but there's plenty of times I use it without engaging the distortion at all; the reason I'm drawn to it (and the family of plug-ins as a whole) is that the different pages allow a depth to the programming without getting all beard scratching about it. I can get something that sounds cool to me, and different to the last time I used it, quickly.
Having worked on so many different kinds of projects, do you find you feel closer to some than others?
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I'm the type of personality who tends to become consumed with whatever I'm doing, but there's obviously a closeness that comes from the continued musical relationship - in essence that's what a band is. Beyond the ideas I used to think it was about the studio or the gear and although that plays a role I think the important thing is the personalities and how well they communicate. In my case I've done a lot of work with Trent over the last 8 years which I feel very much a part of and which I'm very proud of. It's always been a challenge and a musical adventure; every project is approached from a different place to best try and avoid falling into our musical comfort zones - it's the opposite of 'I recorded my first hit with this amp and I've used it on every record since'. It keeps things exciting in terms of the work and the history and friendship allows a healthy level of honesty - it's hard to tell someone you've just started working with, or for them to tell you, that there may be an element of sucking in what's going on. Musically challenging is fine but I work best when I feel at ease which is why I also enjoy working at home so much with my wife and brother. I think some of my best stuff has been done there - we've made music together for so long and are all so close that it becomes an intuitive experience.
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In our first interview you said 'Five years ago, when I first moved to America, I wasn't even sure whether I was going to keep doing music.' Looking back now, are you glad you stayed the course?
Of course. I am very grateful that I get to earn a living making music and I'm sure I'd be doing it regardless of whether it was a living or not. It's not something I take for granted - I've had my share of disappointment same as everyone else. I've enjoyed making music more in the last few years than ever before; in my case, experience has definitely added up to more confidence. I try and not worry about the results - it's the process, and how creative it can be, that counts.