The vocal assistant works quite well as a starting point, but a couple tweaks are still required to get things to sound just right. Nectar 3 has now become a viable option for professionals, in addition to hobbyists, thanks to its various improvements and particularly useful vocal assistant and masking features. While Nectar 2 was a decent all-in-one solution for beginners, I didn’t feel like it could compete with my third party plug-ins. iZotope pinpointed the majority of Nectar 2’s weak points and improved upon them. Overall, I’m quite happy with the improvements to Nectar. Dimension: New Chorus and Phaser modes with interactive UI. Reverb: Additional third EQ node for additional shaping flexibility immersive visual display. New interactive threshold design with interactive visualization.
Compressor: Ability to add two Compressors. EQ: Ability to add two EQ instances of up to 24 bands with Dynamic processing for frequency and pitch. Harmony: Increased number of voices you can add from 4 to 8, improvements to MIDI mode experience for easier playability. Saturation: Two new Saturation modes, Decimate and Distort. De-esser: New interactive threshold design experience that can be auto-set with Vocal Assistant. Delay: Two brand new modes and new independent controls for stereo support. Twelve redesigned and updated modules for completely vocal-focused production and mixing including: Corrective and Creative Dynamic EQs, Compression, Harmony, Pitch, De-Esser, Saturation, Reverb, Gate, and Dimension. Hundreds of professionally-designed presets for music and dialogue applications. iZotope Relay: your hub for intelligently connecting your entire mix to your iZotope plug-in collection. Melodyne 4 essential for GRAMMY-award winning time and pitch correction. Component RX 7 Breath Control plug-in for reducing unwanted breaths without sacrificing audio quality with the power of iZotope RX 7. Inter-plugin Communication: Nectar 3 can communicate with other instances of iZotope plug-ins in your session to address mix issues, tonal balance, masking and more. Auto Level Mode adjusts the level of your vocal before it even starts processing, eliminating the need for corrective dynamics or riding the fader.
Dynamic EQ with new Follow EQ Mode to track down pesky resonances and remove them in real time, saving valuable time and energy. Unmask puts your vocal at the forefront of your mix by carving away other competing mix elements directly from Vocal Assistant’s menu screen. Vocal Assistant: One-click custom preset creation created with machine learning technology to help your vocal fit in the mix in seconds. “The tracks in your mix affect one another in complex ways, so it makes sense for an assistant to be able to see things from a broader viewpoint than that of just one track.”
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“We’re excited about this feature because it’s the first time one of our audio technology assistants has considered audio on another track in order to make better decisions about how to fit vocals in the mix,” says Russell McClellan, Principal Software Engineer.
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IZotope Nectar 3 is the latest version of the popular vocal processing plugin.The update features the Vocal Assistant with Unmask functionality, Celemony Melodyne essential, two new dynamic EQs, redesigned modules, RX Breath Control, and much more.