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Dev

RX 8 Wins Academy Award

I’m so proud to share that The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has recognized iZotope by awarding RX 8 a Scientific and Engineering Award! It is so cool to see a product that I contributed to getting awarded such an honor.

rx team zoom photo
The RX 8 team joined a zoom call for a group photo, I’m in the upper right
Bottom-left: PM Mike Rozett. Top: DSP Research EngineerAlexey Lukin. Bottom-right: CEO Mark Ethier

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Audio Music

Virtual Caroling

This year, I had a lot of fun making “virtual choir” Christmas carols with my sister and friends scattered across the country. Since we couldn’t be together due to the pandemic, we each recorded our part separately and then put it together after the fact. Such a fun project!

Frosty the Snowman! Full credits in the video description
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Dev

iZotope Vinyl

iZotope’s Vinyl plugin is a classic vinyl emulation effect that was originally released in 2000, and for its 20th anniversary we gave it a complete overhaul. The update includes a brand new modern UI, as well as a new lofi effect, and it is available for free!

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Dev

AES Show Panel

A screenshot from the Q&A at the end of our session. Lisa Ferrante-Walsh, Katrina Lui, Emma Azelborn, and Elpiniki Pappa

This year, I assisted Lisa Ferrante-Walsh, iZotope’s Senior Director of Software Engineering, with organizing a panel for the AES Show Fall 2020. Our panel, titled Evolution of Audio Products – Demystifying Innovation, used case studies to present strategies for bringing innovation into the product development process.

We brought in two experts from the audio tech industry to share their experiences, and I also presented about innovation at iZotope.

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Dev

RX 8

After months of development work, iZotope has finally released RX 8! I’m so proud of all the work our team put in over the past months to get this out the door.

RX8’s editor view features a spectrogram showing the frequency content of an audio file over time

I worked primarily on the updated Batch Processor, a tool for applying the same chain of processing steps to many audio files simultaneously.

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Art

Knitted Leg Warmers

I’ve spent the last few weeks learning how to knit, and just finished my first project! I love leg warmers for going to the gym, wearing before and after dances, and keeping cozy around the house. These have a spiral pattern and turned out so cute!