What is Ozone?

Ozone is an audio processing plug-in that was specifically designed to be a complete mastering system. We focused on the following goals:

Audio Quality

- All mastering modules within Ozone use highly optimized 64-bit processing to achieve the highest resolution and sound quality possible.  All processing within Ozone is performed at 64-bit precision, providing accuracy that is impossible to achieve by chaining together individual plug-ins.

- All of the mastering modules in Ozone are specifically designed to work together. By carefully matching crossovers and other internal processing, Ozone eliminates phase and artifact problems encountered when chaining together separate plug-ins. In addition, the sound quality and characteristics of each of the mastering modules is tuned to complement the others, providing consistent and high quality results.

- Ozone uses analog modeling to give each of the mastering modules a smooth natural sound. For example, the equalizer recreates the soft limiting exhibited by a vintage valve equalizer, while the harmonic exciter mimics the "musically pleasing" harmonic saturation of a vacuum tube component.

- Whenever there was a choice of CPU vs. sound quality, we chose sound quality. There are easier (less CPU intensive) ways of doing some of the processing that Ozone does, but the sound quality can suffer. Since Ozone is meant to be used for mastering, you would typically only have one instance of Ozone running on the main effects, which should allow you to utilize Ozone even on lower powered CPUs.

Audio and Visual Feedback

- We wanted to provide visual feedback wherever possible. Your ears and your eyes can be a powerful combination when you're mastering, and each processing module is complemented with useful spectrums, phase meters, and level histograms.

- We also wanted to make it easy to get audio feedback by providing extensive solo/bypass controls and histories with functions for A/B comparisons. The Alt-click function on the EQ is an example of this as well. Wherever possible, we wanted to give people ways to really hear what they were doing.

Intuitive and Easy

We tried to make Ozone as easy and intuitive as possible from including a complete set of mastering modules in a single plug-in system to context sensitive help to the little things like mouse wheel support. There is a lot of power in Ozone, but we think that in very little time at all you'll be making the most of it and getting great results with ease.