Ozone 11 is released! This is the first product I’ve seen through from start to release as Technical Lead, and I’m so proud of what we accomplished. As lead, I was involved in planning and technical strategy, and communicating team status to folks outside the team. I also was still an active developer; some highlights I worked on are the Transient / Sustain splitting, the targeted Ozone Master Assistant, and the Soft Clipper metering in Maximizer.
Ozone 10 is finally out! My team put together a lot of exciting new features in this update—Impact, a new module focused on micro-dynamics; Stabilizer, a new “magic eq” module; and a soft clipper added to Maximizer that sounds incredible (shoutout to Kurt Werner!) to name a few. I was involved with aspects of all these, but my primary focus for this release was completely overhauling and upgrading the Master Assistant. This was the most challenging and rewarding project I’ve worked on so far.
This year, I had the opportunity to be a co-author with Kurt Werner and Ezra J. Teboul on a DAFX 2022 paper, Modeling and Extending the RCA Mark II Sound Effects Filter.
iZotope just released Neutron 4, a mixing suite with new upgraded assistant technology. I’m not on the team that built Neutron, but teams at iZotope often interact and work together and I was lucky enough to be involved in one specific new DSP feature for this release—the “Tame” button in Neutron’s Exciter module. Designed along with my friend and colleague Kurt Werner, the Tame button is an on/off switch that completely changes the way Neutron’s exciter impacts the dynamics of a performance.
I contributed to a blog post about Complex Ambience Match, a new feature in RX 9. I was the lead for this feature, which is focused on matching background sounds that change over time, such as wind in trees or footsteps in a mall.
How to Match Ambience for Film and TV with RX 9
iZotope has released RX 9! This release was exciting for me because it was my first time in a leadership role; I was the tech lead for the new Complex Ambience Match feature. Taking it from a brand new prototype through user sessions and building it up to a feature ready to be released was such a rewarding experience.
As a tech lead, I got to work with project management, user testing and iteration, setting the scope of an MVP project, and communication about the project outside of Engineering. I’m very proud of what we were able to make and excited to see where it goes in future updates.
The official RX9 press release is available here.
