Did you hear that? . . . . . . iZotope RX4 . .

PeterDuke wrote on 9/11/2014, 6:29 PM

What's new that's worthwhile?

johnmeyer wrote on 9/11/2014, 6:53 PM

Nothing. RX3 Advanced was very compelling. This release is not.

[edit]Here is a link to the list of enhancements:

What's New in RX4

The basic RX4 version has a few new features, ALL of which are in my RX3 Advanced. Basically they just moved features out of the advanced and into the basic version. Kind of ticks me off after I spent the $$ to get the advanced.

The Advanced version has a few features for matching clips. This is useful for really high-end audio applications, but not that useful to me. They also included an audio leveling module for compliance with network TV audio requirements. I think most people already have something that handles this.

wwaag wrote on 9/11/2014, 9:44 PM

I have RX3 basic. The only thing of interest to me would be the Dialog Denoiser. Question, is it a measurable improvement over the basic denoiser?

PeterDuke wrote on 9/11/2014, 11:29 PM

I think that I will let this ball go through to the keeper. I primarily bought Rx for cleanup and there is not much new in that category.

ushere wrote on 9/12/2014, 12:39 AM

+1 peter.

there seems to a lot of 'repackaging', 'gimmicks' and such like added to 'new' releases of software recently.

i'm very happy with 13, but it's really what the previous few releases should have been - stable, and even then there's still the numerous outstanding foibles that haven't been touched and yet can be so annoying for professional users, most notably (in my case) disappearing customised icons from the toolbar. i would have happily have forgone the addition toolbar they added at the bottom just to have a reliable one at the top ;-)

ChristoC wrote on 9/12/2014, 1:14 AM

For me the upgrade from RX3 basic to RX4 basic is worth the $99

Tim Stannard wrote on 9/14/2014, 1:02 PM

@wwaag
I bought RX3 recently with the offer of a free upgrade to RX4 which I have downloaded but not yet tested to any great extent.
As far as I can tell from the help files and from the marketing, the advantage of the Dialog Denoiser over the standard Denoiser is one of speed rather than quality of the result.
This matters not a great deal to me as I'm an enthusiast. The moment I make money out of this it would be worth it.

Incidentally, the denoiser in RX3 was as big a step up for me as the Sony Noise Reduction 2 was over the denoiser included in GoldWave. Well worth the purchase. The biggest problem is it might ake me a bit lazy when recording audio!

wwaag wrote on 9/14/2014, 2:29 PM

Since I did the earlier post, I've done a lot of testing of the Dialog Denoiser. For my main application at the moment, it works wonders. I do a lot of road trip documentaries using a dash-mounted Handycam with audio from a Zoom H2n. Reducing road noise to enhance the dialog has always been a real challenge. Varying road surface conditions lead to developing noise profiles pretty much at the event level--very tedious and time-consuming. With the Dialog Denoiser in the Auto mode, I can apply the Fx at the track level. I must say it works amazingly well for the most part. For "problem" events, I can then apply the regular Denoiser Fx at the event level. For me, it's definitely worth the $99 upgrade cost.

wwaag

Byron K wrote on 9/16/2014, 1:41 PM

Christo,
Do you have a link to the $99 upgrade? I can't seem to find the upgrade pricing on the Izotope website.

Thanks!

rs170a wrote on 9/16/2014, 2:15 PM

Byron, the $99 offer is for previously registered users only.

Mike

Byron K wrote on 9/16/2014, 5:55 PM

Thanks Mike!
I thought maybe this was offered to owners of RX3 too.

Tom Pauncz wrote on 9/16/2014, 6:02 PM

Byron,
The upgrade is for "iZotope RX 4 Upgrade from Previous Version of RX" from the Buy Now link.
Tom

rs170a wrote on 9/16/2014, 8:47 PM

Byron, the offer is for RX3 owners. I got an email with the $99 price about a week ago. If you didn't get it, email them and ask for it.

Mike

Kit wrote on 9/21/2014, 9:53 PM

Late to this thread. Is it worth the upgrade from RX2 to RX4? Is that like getting RX3 advanced? Thanks.

ReceptorDeceptor wrote on 10/23/2014, 5:41 PM

I bought RX3 Advanced when it was on sale and I received a free upgrade to RX4 Advanced. The algorithms are WAY faster (at least on my i7 workstation) than what they were in RX3. I can say for a fact that Izotope wasn't exaggerating when they stated that RX4 Advanced is up to 6 times faster in processing speeds.

As mentioned above, the dialogue denoiser tool is great even in automatic mode, saves you a lot of time. Another new feature in RX4 advanced (AFAIK?) is the "Ambience Match" that you can use to match the ambience of a recording to another or fill in any dropouts/gaps in the recording.

In RX4 Advanced there's also a loudness normalization tool that'll normalize your audio material to be ready for broadcast -- all major loudness standards for broadcast use are there as presets and you can add your own ones as well.

All in all, you can get some pretty amazing results with the software, even from audio that you'd never think of being "salvageable" at all. I use RX4 Advanced with Zynaptiq Audio plug-ins such as Unfilter and Unchirp. With the right kind of approach using these tools, you can really bring a hopeless audio recording back to life.