What we are getting, though, are two new modules (Advanced edition only), additional features to two existing modules, and a complete overhaul of Master Assistant, all designed to maintain Ozone’s well-deserved reputation for delivering professional results through minimal user input.

In general terms, of course, this is still the same Ozone we know and love, offering a powerful roster of processing modules for the creation of custom mastering chains, with the reference-targeting Master Assistant automatically setting up a genre-derived starting point if required – we don’t expect any change to those fundamentals. In its goal of democratising the esoteric engineering processes traditionally involved in mastering, Ozone has always gone out of its way to make dynamics, EQ, stereo imaging and all the rest of it as approachable and intuitive as possible, without compromising flexibility or sonic performance – and v10 continues down that path.

IZotope has just released the tenth full version of their industry- and home studio-standard software mastering suite, Ozone, and this week, Ronan Macdonald has been busy diving in to give us his initial impressions of the new modules and improvements…

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