iZotope, Inc. is an audio technology company based in Cambridge

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, United States. iZotope develops professional audio software for audio recording, mixing, broadcast, sound design, and mastering which can be used in Digital Audio Workstation

Digital audio workstation

A digital audio workstation is an electronic system designed solely or primarily for recording, editing and playing back digital audio. DAWs were originally tape-less, microprocessor-based systems such as the Synclavier and Fairlight CMI...

 programs including Pro Tools

Pro Tools

Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation platform for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, developed and manufactured by Avid Technology. It is widely used by professionals throughout the audio industries for recording and editing in music production, film scoring, film, and television...

, Apple Logic Pro

Logic Pro

Logic Pro is a hybrid 32 / 64 bit digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer software application for the Mac OS X platform. Originally created by German software developer Emagic, Logic Pro became an Apple product when Apple bought Emagic in 2002...

 and GarageBand

GarageBand

GarageBand is a software application for Mac OS X and iOS that allows users to create music or podcasts. It is developed by Apple Inc. as a part of the iLife software package on Mac OS X.-Audio recording:...

, Cakewalk SONAR

Cakewalk Sonar

Cakewalk SONAR is a digital audio workstation made by Cakewalk for recording, editing, mixing, mastering and outputting audio. The latest versions of the software are SONAR Home Studio 7, SONAR Home Studio 7 XL, SONAR X1 Producer Edition, SONAR X1 Studio Edition, SONAR X1 Essential Edition, and...

, Nuendo

Nuendo

Nuendo is a music software product developed by Steinberg for music recording, arranging, editing and post-production as part of a Digital Audio Workstation. The package is aimed at audio and video post-production market segments, but it also contains optional modules that can be used for...

, Digital Performer

Digital Performer

Digital Performer is a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation/Sequencer software package published by Mark of the Unicorn of Cambridge, Massachusetts for the Apple Macintosh platform.-Ancestry:...

, and others. In addition, iZotope creates and licenses audio DSP

Digital signal processing

Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of discrete time signals by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals. Digital signal processing and analog signal processing are subfields of signal processing...

 technology including dithering, noise reduction

Noise reduction

Noise reduction is the process of removing noise from a signal.All recording devices, both analogue or digital, have traits which make them susceptible to noise...

, time stretching

Time stretching

Time stretching can refer to:* Audio timescale-pitch modification, in audio* Time stretching, in video* Time dilation, in physics * Time stretch analog-to-digital converter, in electronics...

, and audio enhancement to hardware and software companies in the consumer and pro audio industries.

Pro-Audio Products

• ANR-B – Adaptive Realtime Noise Reduction for Broadcast Audio.
• Alloy – Mixing compressor/Multi purpose bus effect.
• RX – Complete Audio Restoration Suite.
• Ozone 5 – Mastering effects system using 64-bit analog-modeled processing.
• Spectron – 64-bit spectral effects processor.
• Trash – 64-bit modeling of guitar amplifiers, distortions, delays and filters.
• Vinyl – Record simulation and lo-fi effect.
• Nectar – Vocal production suite.
• Stutter Edit – Sample stutter effects and slicing.

Virtual Instruments

• iDrum – Virtual drum machine.
• pHATmatik PRO – Loop-based sampler.

Licensed Technologies

• MBIT+ – dithering with psychoacoustic wordlength reduction.
• Omega – realtime time and pitch control
• Radius – natural timestretching technology. Integrated into Digidesign
  Digidesign
  Avid Audio is an American digital audio technology company. It was founded in 1984 by Peter Gotcher and Evan Brooks. The company began as a project to raise money for the founders' band, selling EPROM chips for drum machines. It is a subsidiary of Avid Technology, and during 2010 the Digidesign...
  
  's Pro Tools
  Pro Tools
  Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation platform for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, developed and manufactured by Avid Technology. It is widely used by professionals throughout the audio industries for recording and editing in music production, film scoring, film, and television...
  
   Elastic Time as well as Cakewalk SONAR
  Cakewalk Sonar
  Cakewalk SONAR is a digital audio workstation made by Cakewalk for recording, editing, mixing, mastering and outputting audio. The latest versions of the software are SONAR Home Studio 7, SONAR Home Studio 7 XL, SONAR X1 Producer Edition, SONAR X1 Studio Edition, SONAR X1 Essential Edition, and...
  
  . Available as a plug-in for Apple Logic Pro
  Logic Pro
  Logic Pro is a hybrid 32 / 64 bit digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer software application for the Mac OS X platform. Originally created by German software developer Emagic, Logic Pro became an Apple product when Apple bought Emagic in 2002...
  
  .http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=3535
• SRC – 64-bit sample rate conversion.

Artist References

• iZotope receives a thank you from Trent Reznor
  Trent Reznor
  Michael Trent Reznor is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Reznor is also a member of How to Destroy Angels alongside his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross. He was previously associated with bands Option 30,...
  
   and Nine Inch Nails
  Nine Inch Nails
  Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
  
   on the album credits of Year Zero
  Year Zero (album)
  Year Zero is the fifth studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on April 17, 2007, by Interscope Records. Frontman Trent Reznor wrote the album's music and lyrics while touring in support of the group's previous release, With Teeth...
  
  
• Just Blaze
  Just Blaze
  Justin Smith, better known as Just Blaze, is an American hip hop music producer from Paterson, New Jersey. Blaze is also the CEO of Fort Knocks Entertainment. He is most well known for producing Jay-Z songs on the albums The Blueprint, The Blueprint 2, and The Black Album. He is also known for...
  
   talks about using Ozone on his latest project with Jay-Z
  Jay-Z
  Shawn Corey Carter , better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America, having a net worth of over $450 million as of 2010...
  
  

Awards

2008

• ANR-B – Radio World's Cool Stuff Award
• ANR-B – Broadcast Engineering Award
• RX – Remix Magazine Technology Award
• RX – Computer Music Magazine's Editor's Choice
• RX – Computer Music Magazine's Performance Award

2006

• Ozone 3 – Future Music Magazine's Ace Award
• Trash – Guitar One's Mark of Excellence
• Anderton Award
• Cardinal Richelieu Memorial Power Behind the Throne