Izotope Alloy 2 Crack Windows 8 14
Jalisa Landgren
Izotope's best known product is probably their Ozone mastering suite, a sort of super-plug-in which combines all the processing and effects you could possibly need on your master bus. Alloy uses much of the same technology, but is adapted instead for use with individual instruments at the mixing stage. The original version, which was reviewed by John Walden in SOS April 2010 (/sos/apr10/articles/alloy.htm), has now been superseded by a thoroughly overhauled version 2. This adds native support for Avid's AAX plug-in format, and now works in both 32- and 64-bit hosts without any bit-bridging.
In general, I think the question of whether Alloy 2 is for you depends on how much you buy into the 'one plug-in for everything' philosophy. On the plus side, this means no mucking about opening and closing endless plug-in windows, it means you only have to learn one GUI, and you perhaps have fewer gain-staging issues as your signal is passed from one processor to the next. On the down side, I wonder whether it brings the temptation to use more processing than a source really needs; I certainly think that would happen if you relied mainly on the presets, which tend to be pretty heavy-handed. To my mind, things like exciters, limiters and transient shapers are specialist problem-solvers rather than everyday effects, and in a plug-in like Alloy it takes some self-discipline to avoid overuse of these tools. If you already have other good plug-ins, of course, you might simply prefer the pick-and-mix approach: for instance, although Alloy's bundled de-esser and transient shaper are perfectly usable, they probably wouldn't be my first choices.
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