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I got this bit of blarney from Ozone in an email:

"Introducing iZotope Spectron"

Spectron uses a spectral engine to split audio into thousands of frequency bands, apply effects independently to each band, and resynthesize the audio to create entirely new sounds.

Spectron provides delay effects, but it adds the ability to selectively delay, feedback and modulate specific ranges of frequencies. Or it can sound like a flanger or chorus, but with additional spectral complexity and richness. It can filter signals, but unlike an EQ it has the unique ability to morph, modulate and harmonically filter sounds. It's hard to compare to existing effects, because -- well -- there aren't effects to compare it to."

Okay, when they say 'spectral engine', they're talking about a filter, right? I've recently started working with Cool Edit's frequency band splitter, which has similarities of function with the Ozone product, but I wonder if anybody here has actually tried the Ozone thing?
 
(I suppose you mean spectron when you say Ozone...)
I havn't even got around to trying Trash yet... But I couldn't live without Ozone, so I might just buy both Spectron and Trash just to make the Izotope guys happy! :) So, anyway, anyone whos tried Trash or Spectron feel free to report your findings...
 
I got that bit from them today as well. A few weeks back I downloaded the demo version of trash. The demo leaves silent spots in your audio but otherwise it is a fully functional plug in. What a monster this thing is. Nice smooth working interface. I tinkered with it and took my vocal recordings to some crazy places. I say tinkered because the damn the thing is so big it would take me some time to actually figure it out. Great first impression though. You can download the demo at http://www.izotope.com
 
I sat down and listened through the presets in Trash today. For guitar I was quite impressed, but then again I'm not a guitar player and I have never been good with guitar sounds. (My favorite guitar effect is the mute button. :D) For drums and bass I was less impressed, but I havn't dismissed it yet. I'm sure its great once you leave the presets behind and do it the proper way. We'll see when I have a week to spare for that; Trash is really quite gargantuan...
 
I went ahead and purchased Trash with little to go on as I must say I do not understand a lot of what it does. I bought it for two reasons: 1) within a couple of minutes of working with the demo I had taken a KSM44 vocal from sounding a little sterile to a place that was way warmer and much more to my liking and 2) I presume when I downloaded the demo my name went on a mailing list and I recieved the Email dobro mentioned above. In that email was a promotional code to get Trash for half off until july 31st. (99 bucks instead of 200) So if you are thinking about taking out the Trash do yourself a favor and Download the demo first and see if they send you this E-mail. :cool:
 
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