Still waiting for a good moment to upgrade to 3.

The new RX Production Suite comes with Dialogue Match, but that is totally unusable of a Logic user. Which I am disappointed with, but that's another story. ADecent reverbs I already have. The cost of admission just really isn't worth it just for the Neutron upgrade.

So I'm holding out for the new RX, whenever that drops. Unless some other better offer comes by.

First upgrade I'll have sat out in quite a while. But, yeah, I'm in the same boat -just doesn't offer sufficient incentive based on "what's new." I'm certain that, solely on its own merits, it's absolutely worth it.

Has anyone noticed improvements in the gui sluggishness since the new 3.1 update was released?
My experience was so annoying in that it took several seconds to open the gui and it slowed the responsiveness of the daw to a crawl. It also kept disconnecting my faderport 16 as I moved from one track to another. Very annoying.
Aside from the gui issue I experienced other annoying behaviours that didn't speed up thy workflow but hindered it.
For example when adding multiple relay plugins none of them would automatically take the track name from the daw.so that meant time wasted renaming each relay.
Adding the visual mixer to the stereo bus also was a problem. Whilst I could alter the volume of any instrument in the visual mixer none of the tracks could be panned. It turns out that to be able to move tracks left or right every track has to be set to stereo.
I have to say the gate is really good, but all in all for what it is designed for, well frankly it's not ready for showtime.

I am really liking Neutron 3 so far, way more than I liked N2. The mix assistant appears to have matured quite a bit in N3, and the sculptor is great for adding separation to certain sounds in the mix.
Hats off to iZotope for adding so much more depth and intelligence to their mix assistant. Unlike N2, I am not finding that N3 is doing anything that has offended my ears, or made me question the logic of the algorithm.

I wondering is good deal to buy upgrade from neutron 2 standard, ozone 8 standard into tonal balance - ozone 9 advanced, neutron 3 advanced and nectar for 200 or buy 2 plugins from fabfilter. eq and delay

I bought a plugin at Pluginboutique called Kinetic by Soundspot?

Anyway, if you buy one plugin you get a free Neutron Element by Izotope .

I'm a fan of Channel Strips as my channel strip now is the Eventide Ultrachannel strip.

I'm liking the Izotope Elements a lot.. I like it. Will be upgrading to the pro version.

Been on the fence with this for a while. Thinking about buying the music production bundle before the deal runs out.
BUT i am worried that it is going to be too CPU hungry to really use it as a one shop stop for channel strip duties.
How is everyone else finding it in that regard?

I guess it depends on how old a computer you are running it on. I haven't noticed any version of Neutron to be particularly CPU hungry in comparison to other channel strips.

Ditto... also, consider it's meant as a vocal channel strip... so, it’s not like you’d be using 20 instances of it on a tune

Not sure if iZotope monitor a thread like this, but they don't seem to have a forum or similar on their site for feedback or feature requests, so thought I'd put it out here:

I've wanted for a while some sort of control surface for the iZotope range of mixing products, but the given that there are so many controls for something like Neutron, it makes it quite a difficult task to create a physical one, not to mention that even if I went down that path, it would be obsolete once the next release comes out.

In an ideal world, I'd love to see an iPad app that can connect to and control these products, so if you were to use a mix of Neutron, Relay, Nectar and Ozone over the session, you would be able to control the entire mix through iPad as a touchable control surface, including the Visual Mixer and Tonal Balance Control. That would be awesome! It could then be updated with each release by iZotope to keep it current.
I've considered creating something in Lemur also, but I don't feel that it is ultimately capable of doing it justice and a native app would be way better.

While I'm at feature requests...

Would love to see the compressor section in Neutron have FET, OPTO and VCA etc modes available as a selection rather than just "Vintage" mode...

Has anyone here had much experience with automating neutrons eq?
I am just wondering how it does. Many plugins that introduce latency have problems when it comes to automation (including pretty major timing issues)
Can anyone speak to this?

+1

Slow to open....all this time wasted killing flow/mojo. Does it have something to do with the authorization ? This is the main reason I didn't upgrade.

How do you all feel about the compressors ?....can't quite get what I'd like from them. Plus a very jumpy compressor gain reduction meter...vintage mode gives me more usable visual feedback.

I really do like the layout..a lot.

No, I have t tried this myself. It does have a low latency mode so you could always run it using that. Best thing to do though is do a quick trial of it. See how well it performs.

Let us know if you do. I’ll be very interested in hearing the results.

I have Neutron 2. CPU is ok (2018 MacBook Pro 13”, dual core). The problem is RAM! It takes lots of RAM in Pro Tools 2019, I get lots of memory erros using 15-20 instances of Neutron (my MB only has 8 GB of RAM). I demoed N3 and it didn’t improve RAM use...

Had Neutron3 for a while but never really gace it a chance.

Until today. The Sculptor is REALLY nice and i love that you have all the modules in 1 plugin. Tested the EQ against Fabfilter, they sound quite similar to my ears. TheNeutron comoressor is really nice on drums too.

Perhaps iZotope dont have the snob factor like FF, DMG, Slate etc etc but i think these are super great plugins.

Izotope's plugins have always been great. I think the snobbish attitude comes from people not wanting the AI features but then you don't have to use them.

Also other problems which cause the issues are the support only for one year and their sometimes very strange update/upgrade systems.

Other than that they sound great.

I'm one of the few iconoclastic dudes on this site....some call us demons, others call us angels..well some of you guys call us trolls. Here we go again:

The Sculptor module of Neutron 3 Advanced can somewhat give Soundtheory`s Gullfoss a run for its money.

Nice try. No way, José. I have both, and for its purposes, Gullfoss rules supreme.

I also really like izotope but there are still some little features I only find on other plugins.
A mixing friendly neutron limiter. izotope only has the mastering one and using it on a few channels and the computer will not like it.
A decent/flexible neutron de esser like fabfilter.
Compressor with hold function. (why is it not there since ever ?)

Oversampling. This one is a bit of a tricky one.
Izotope informed me that they have oversampling going on under the hood.
But if they do, oversampling should induce latency and their neutron eq does not. Black magic?

Anyway izotope if you see this....just make it happen and I ditch everything else.
oh By the way, a iris 3 please.

I guess that depends on what you're using it for. For bus work, I heavily prefer Gullfoss over Sculptor, but I wouldn't really reach for Gullfoss for use on individual instruments. Sculptor just makes more sense there.

Yeah same here, Sculptor for individual tracks, Gullffoss for buses.

So I reverted to playing around with the Gate module in the Neutron 2 Advanced plugin and I LIKE IT BETTER than the Gate module in Neutron 3 Advanced. You actually have more control over the transients and somewhat nasty artefacts in the sound.

Gate module in N2 Advanced along with the Transient Shaper and Sculptor in N3 Advanced along with a negative Bias setting in Ozone 9 Vintage Tape works really well with one another before pushing it through Gullfoss and DSEQ/DSEQ 2.

You're right about the usage of those plugins so I gave you a second thumbs up.

There is a adjustable limiter in Neutron 3 on the 'main' output!

Thanks buddy.
I use the individual plug ins so never noticed that. Just saw now.
I shall rephrase...
Izotope , please make the limiter as a individual plugin. thank you.

You could load it as an individual limiter, when you deactivate the one instance that loads with it. ;-) It is a light version of the maximizer, well at least on my cpu it is.

I did end up upgrading to Neutron 3 at some point as it was part of a bundle, Total Control I think.

I have noticed it is much lighter on RAM now and the DSP load can be very light as it only uses what you have active. From what I can tell that even works for eq bands. Low latency mode seems to have less overhead too. I must say I haven't compared its performance with the new masking feature introduced by Nectar 3 Plus, since I don't have the new Nectar to be able to test it out. I can't imagine it would be that heavy, though.

What I do find interesting is that the masking feature came out at the same time as Neoverb, So I'm willing to bet it's built on the same tech.

Hi Simon, the CPU is indeed light, but in my DAW Neutron 3 uses lots of RAM. After 20 instances I get memory errors, and Pro Tools memory bar graph is full. May I ask what DAW do you use, and how many GB of memory does it have? I have 8GB.

Thanks

My advice would be to upgrade to 16 GB. 8 GB will be enough most of the time, but when you need more in a track you're working on, you're stuck.

Also, your OS will write RAM data to your hard drives when it reaches a certain limit. This will slow down your system.

Thanks, but unfortunately my computer do not allow memory upgrade. Speed is ok, no slowdown, Neutro 3 really improved CPU, but I do not see improvements in memory.