Ozone 9 Standard Upgrade from Ozone 5-8 Standard or Ozone 5-8 Advanced

The Future of Mastering

Ozone 9 Standard Upgrades & Crossgrades:

This is an Upgrade for owners of Ozone 5-8 Standard or Ozone 5-8 Advanced. The full version of Ozone 9 Standard and the following Upgrade is also available:

• Ozone 9 Standard Upgrade from Ozone Elements 7-9

Create with confidence using tools that polish and perfect your sound, and give you control the final result.

Ozone 9 is here, bringing the latest advances in audio technology to the world of mastering.  Find the perfect modern or vintage vibe with an expanded Master Assistant, or match to your favourite reference track with the new Match EQ. Work faster with improved plug-in performance, smoother metering, and resizable windows. Stop wondering if your music is ready for primetime—with Ozone 9, the future of mastering is in your hands.

Why Ozone 9?

AI-powered mastering

Master with machine learning: Ozone 9 helps make mastering easier with AI powered assistive tools that give you an instant starting point. Master Assistant can add modern or vintage vibes and help you get the right loudness for streaming.

Match your reference track

Load your favourite reference tracks into Ozone 9, loop any section, and compare your master with a single button press. Take a snapshot of your reference with the new Match EQ module, and save your favorite profiles as presets for other songs. Or, use Master Assistant to set up a custom chain based on your reference.

NKS Support

Put the power of Ozone into your creative process and master while making music with Maschine or Komplete Kontrol. Open Ozone on the fly and easily add professional polish while making music on your hardware, using hundreds of different presets and accessible parameters mapped to your hardware controls. Add loudness, width, and EQ without touching your DAW and keep the creative juices flowing.

What's in Ozone?

Equalizer

Control the finest details of your sound with fluid metering and new HUD controls

• Emulate classic analogue EQs or modern digital models depending on your style
• Use Mid/Side mode to correct frequencies in the sides of your audio
• NEW! Enjoy smooth, fluid metering and a resizable window that lets you see more of your sound
• Equalizer is available in all editions of Ozone 9

Imager

Add natural stereo width to narrow mixes with an upgraded “Stereoize” mode:

• NEW! Two modes for stereoize give you new flavors for widening your track
• Sculpt your image in stereo with per-band widening and narrowing
• Monitor stereo width and phase new fluid metering
• Imager is available in all editions of Ozone 9

Track Referencing

Seamlessly compare your mix with a reference track at the touch of a button

• Loop specific regions of your references and load up to 16 at once into Ozone
• See your reference displayed in Ozone’s meters for easy visual comparison
• Use Master Assistant to automatically match the tone of your loaded reference tracks

Maximizer

Make mixes LOUD while preserving dynamics with Ozone’s intelligent limiter

• Intelligent Release Control (IRC) modes react to your sound to reduce distortion and pumping
• Threshold Learn mode intelligently sets loudness to a target LUFS level
• True Peak detection ensures your audio doesn’t clip after export

Dynamic EQ

Make EQ boosts and cuts that respond to the dynamics of your audio

• Make subtle boosts and cuts that occur only when frequencies are too loud or soft
• Control threshold, attack, and release along with frequency and gain
• More precise that a compressor and more subtle than a normal EQ!

Exciter

Mix and match between seven different types of distortion to add warmth and character

• Use different flavours of distortion such as Tape, Retro, or Tube
• Add different distortion modes on multiple bands to create your own unique tonal balance

Dynamics

The mastering engineer’s most versatile tool. Tame dynamic mixes and give your tracks energy.

• Compress in up to four bands, or with the Detection Filter mode
• Use Auto-release mode for a smooth, natural response

Vintage Modules

Vintage Tape

Introduce rich saturation with all the frequency colouration, distortion, and phase effects of tape.

Vintage Limiter

Glue a mix together and get loud, pumping tracks using Vintage Limiter

Vintage EQ

Brighten your master, smooth out heavy low end, and add body to your digital recordings.

Vintage Compressor

Add colourful dynamics with compression modelled after famous mastering hardware

Advanced Tools

System Requirements

Operating Systems

• Mac: macOS High Sierra (10.13.6) – macOS Monterey (12.4.x) * (64-bit only)
• Windows: Windows 10 – Windows 11 (64-bit only)

*Supported on Intel Macs & Apple silicon Macs (Apple M1 chips) in Rosetta 2 and native.

Plugin Formats

• AU (Mac only), AAX, VST2, VST3, NKS (All formats 64-bit only)

Supported Hosts

• Logic Pro, Ableton Live 10 – 11, Pro Tools 2021 - 2022, FL Studio 20, Cubase 10 - 12, Nuendo 11, Studio One 5, REAPER 6, Reason 11, Audition CC, Premiere Pro CC.