Is anyone using Ozone?

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Thanks guys for replies. There seems to be differing CPU abilities with your 1gig t-bird brokenwindow and your p3 700 timothydog. Like you said it could be something to do with the buffer, which I'm not too familiar with, BW.

On the other hand BW, on second reading of your posts I'm not sure what you mean by...

"I just put 1 ozone on top of each other and turned on all the effects on all of them.."

If you're saying what I think you are, I'm not sure why you need to boot up any more than one ozone. Do you mean you are running a chain of 3 of them - ie 3 ozones each with their 6 effects switched on = 18 ozone effects in total? That is a supercomputer you have there if that is the case!!!! Don't worry about the buffers!!!! Keep them!!!!!

If you are running more than one ozone in it's entirety are you sure you need to do this?

Thanks for reply on bit rates tim'dog. I too hope to upgrade to 24/96 hopefully in Feb some time and am following threads on soundcards at the moment. Hopefully 24 bit won't slow things too much.

Cheers BW & tim'

Good points 3 & 4 YMMV. Point 5 - I think the graphs are particularly good because you can watch them all the time you are working with any effect that alters their shape and the saving and overlapping frequency graph feature is so helpful. You know exactly where you are not just aurally but graphically at all times with any change you make - so practical. Try doing that with waves for pc - with that program you are working blind.

Nige
 
Nigie said:
If you're saying what I think you are, I'm not sure why you need to boot up any more than one ozone. Do you mean you are running a chain of 3 of them - ie 3 ozones each with their 6 effects switched on = 18 ozone effects in total? That is a supercomputer you have there if that is the case!!!! Don't worry about the buffers!!!! Keep them!!!!!
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Yup..thats what I'm saying.
I only need to run 1 ozone at a time.but this thread got me thinking about the cpu power that ozone uses...so i tested it on my comp to see how many i could run together before my comp choked..

the file i tested with was a 24/44 file......
 
Amazing!!!!! Can't wait to upgrade to a faster computer in a few weeks and join the ozone army (or small group of deluded misfits whatever the case may be). You had me worried there for a moment brokenwindow I thought you had become a little overkeen with applying those effects!!!!
 
I got it

I got the full version of Ozone and I must say i love it.....for the first time I got my mixes to sound good on all 3 of my settings.......car stereo with subs, shelf stereo, and house stereo...not to mention I mastered and mixed on my headphones......I m not experienced at all but I know that before my mixes sucked hard and and after messing with this program it has really explained to me a lot of things in an easy way and it works very good.......so I would recommend it but Im just getting into having a nice solid mix.........peace
 
After playing with Ozone a little more, I have a few more things I've noticed..

First, I am having a hard time getting my Ozone mixes to sound as loud as T-racks without getting massive clipping. Maybe I need to experiment a little more and set the limiter to "brick wall." But I make heavy music that really needs to push close to digital 0.

Also.. I found the Harmonic Exciter did wonders for my guitar sound. It is much better than a BBE because you have so much control over the spectrum..
 
timothydog said:

First, I am having a hard time getting my Ozone mixes to sound as loud as T-racks without getting massive clipping. Maybe I need to experiment a little more and set the limiter to "brick wall."
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Definitely switxh the limiter to brick wall - if you read the documentation, it explains that the soft-knee will let more peaks through, which will result in clipping if you have the peak set too high. The only drawback it lists for the brickwall setting is that it uses more CPU.

I definitely found that the best way to get results from this program is to experiment and use your own settings, possibly following some of their guidelines, possible not.
 
Like many of you, I was frustrated with the Ozone demo cutting out the audio every 20 seconds. I email them and their tech folks said that they are working on a new demo that doesn't cut out every 30 seconds, so that you can really evaluate the program. Just thought that you would want to know.
 
I had an idea... this may or may not work, so try it and let us all know, someone... I may get flamed, but oh well...
In most DAW programs, you can print your effects. Now this is very much cheating if it works, but hey... its an idea... anyway, get it where you like it, pretty much, stop playing, and print the effect. Chances are the 20 second thing only works in real time. I think it would probably do the trick printing the effect offline.
Someone try it and see if it will do an entire 3:00 track without interruption.
Shhh... Dont tell Ozone ;)
 
Tube dude

I did not use Ozone in real time, I modified the track. It still cutts out, and as far as I can tell every section beween the drop outs is at a different level. I thought about it and I am pretty sure. At first I thought it cycled the level but after thinking about how I tried to go around the demo protection by cutting, pasting and cross fading I think that each section is at a different level. The crossfading is what gave me the cycling effect.?.? Some one could try what I did (refer to previous post) but first mormalize each section seperatly before cutting, pasting and cross fading, and they may get around it. you better have alot of spare time on your hands though.

F.S.

Damn demo designers!! I would way rather this thing blew up after 1 day so I could really test it out. As it is I am unsure of the product. I did howerver use it on a bass section that was rather eratic (using the just bass setting) and I was very impressed!!! It really smoothed it up with no apperant artifacts.
 
What Wat I thinking.???

You can not normalize each section seperatly. The quite parts would be as loud as the loud parts.!!!! Duuuuu.

I guess they have got us beat! It might work on a song that is the same level all the way threw But those are few and far between.

One too many beers.

F.S.
 
Hey Nigie ?

Did you ever get the full version of ozone? If so what do you think. Is is all the sh*t, or what?
 
Hi FS

What a supprise to have this thread revisited! How do you do that? I've tried looking up classic old threads and can't get my hands on them (dumb I think)!

Sorry, I still haven't got the full version. Lifetimes of events seem to have gone by for me since the start of the year. Music wise I've partially upgraded my equipment and am learning Logic at the moment - I hope that works out.

If you are a sonic foundry user you may now be able to download ozone for $149 instead of $199 - are you a sf user and did you get an email from them about this?

Anyways I HOPE to be looking again at buying the full version of ozone in June which isn't any help to you now is it? Plus I will probably be tied up with getting used to Logic and some other new hardware for a while before really coming to grips with mastering stuff.

Thanks for the question though, I will try to keep you updated if there are any developments.....
 
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