iZotope Nectar Plus 4.0.1 instal the new version for ipod

The additional controls make this a big improvement over the Auto-Level module found in Nectar 3, and the fact it’s also a separate plugin means you could easily use it alongside third-party effects in a vocal chain. This helps ensure that you don’t get any unnaturally loud or quiet extra sounds alongside your smoothed-out main vocal. A Tame Noises function cleverly detects non-sung sounds like breaths and esses, and removes them from the auto levelling. Where previously it was just an on/off button, you now have controls for Range and Strength of the effect, a Learn button that sets the optimum volume, a Sidechain option, and a Mix dial to blend in the unprocessed signal. It’s essentially a vocal rider that sits at the beginning of the chain and can smooth out the volume of a performance to help reduce the need for excessive compression down the line. Nectar 3 had the Auto-Level feature on the audio input, but it’s been greatly expanded upon here.

Levelling outĪnother new feature is having the Auto-Level and Key/Pitch modules permanently visible on the left of the plugin window, albeit with arrows that unveil additional controls. It feels a bit more subtle off the bat, but gives you the option to quickly adjust and push it harder yourself via the macro controls or by editing the modules. We test the Assistant in both Nectar 3 and 4 and find that the Nectar 4 results sound more natural and less aggressive in the highs. Still, it’s a neat trick, and having several profiles on hand that you know work well in a certain context, means you can test out different ideas quickly. To be clear, it won’t copy details of the vocal, such as saturation, reverb or delay – it just makes tonal changes to one of the EQ modules to shape your vocal to sound roughly like the reference. You can build up a bunch of your favourite vocal profiles in this way, which are then made available within Nectar. This lets you listen to a piece of incoming audio, which could be a track from a streaming platform or website, and extract the vocal and analyse its spectral spread to turn it into a preset. You could choose to import an a capella audio file, or you could use the new feature in the included Audiolens app.

IZotope Nectar Plus 4.0.1 instal the new version for ipod