To be fair, though, it’s still an extremely useful and great-sounding tool for broader pitch-correction tasks and gets you on the Melodyne ladder, with an upgrade to the Melodyne Assistant costing €149. The only thing I’d point out as a downside is that Melodyne Essential lacks the more advanced and incredibly useful pitch-editing tools that allow you to tweak the pitch drift and vibrato of a performance. This is a good move, as it means iZotope can focus on what it does best – creating cutting-edge processing – while still offering high-quality pitch manipulation from easily one of the best companies in the business. The final piece of the puzzle is pitch editing, and this time around, iZotope has ditched the Nectar 2 Pitch Editor plug-in in favour of partnering up with Celemony and offering Melodyne Essential, worth €99, for free. This enables you to set a gain reduction amount or target volume for the breath sounds, which is a great timesaver.
Just be aware that it’s optimised for vocals, and didn’t really work when we tried it on a low synth bassline.Īnother extra is the RX7 Breath Control plug-in, which is essentially the same as Nectar 2’s Breath Control. The Frequency mode, though, is something new that allows you to create a boost or cut and have it track the pitch of the nearest moving harmonic peak.Īlthough it doesn’t offer the finer levels of control available in Sound Radix’s pitch-tracking SurferEQ, this is an incredibly useful feature to help craft a consistent vocal sound, without the need for automation. We’ve seen the Dynamic EQ in both Neutron and Ozone before, and it can be very useful for transparently taming wayward peaks while leaving the quieter parts untouched. One of the best new updates is the highly versatile EQ module, now with up to 24 bands, 16 shapes, band solo, and Dynamic Gain and Dynamic Frequency modes. This isn’t a major issue, but it can be useful to set the spectrum time to Infinite so that you can carefully hone in on certain frequencies, and that isn’t possible here. Our only minor gripe is that where Neutron and Ozone offer the ability to fine-tune the metering, Nectar’s settings are almost non-existent. This could be a piano or guitar part, or perhaps a whole buss that contains all of your midrange instruments. For this, you’ll need to place a second instance of Nectar 3 (or of Neutron or Relay) on another track that may have clashing frequency content. So in some respects, this is a better use of the AI Assistant, as nine times out of 10, the vocal will want to be the most prominent track in the mix.īut wait! The Assistant isn’t finished… There’s also an Unmask feature that can be run in parallel to the Assist function. One of the issues we had when using Neutron’s Assistant on multiple tracks was that it made everything too bright. In particular, the overall Character EQ and Dynamics control helps lift the top end of the vocal in an effective and tasteful manner. After selecting from Vintage, Modern or Dialogue modes, and whether you want Light, Moderate or Aggressive intensity, the plug-in listens to your audio and spits out a custom-made preset including character EQ, level balancing, compression, subtractive EQ, de-essing and pitch correction (if required) and finally reverb.Īs with Neutron and Ozone, this is just a starting point, and you’ll want to make adjustments to taste, but the results are pretty decent. The amber nectarĪs expected, Nectar 3 includes iZotope’s AI learning technology, this time in the form of Vocal Assistant. Phew! If you dig a little deeper, though, it’s clear to see that this is a substantial new release with some impressive tricks up its sleeve. On the surface, many of the modules remain the same and include two compressors with four algorithms two EQs a de-esser a gate a stereo delay with five saturation modes a Dimension module (chorus, phaser and flanger effects) real-time pitch correction a Harmony module a smooth plate reverb and a limiter. IZotope has updated its Nectar vocal-production suite to version 3, with a tasty new GUI and intelligent mixing features that bring it in line with Neutron and Ozone.
#Review izotope nectar 3 pro#
Minimum system: OS X 10.8.5 Pro Tools 10 only.Comes with Melodyne Essential (worth €99).2 compressors, Limiter, 2 EQs, Gate, Saturation, De-esser.AI Vocal Assistant, Unmask and Auto Level mode.Price £249 Contact iZotope Nectar 3 key features:
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