🎵 iZotope RX 12 有哪些新功能？
- 💻 作为所有软件更新中必不可少的用户界面调整，RX 12 的改动相当细微。其中一项 iZotope 特意提到的改动——更大的声谱图，变化实在有限，如果不特别指出，我可能根本不会注意到。不过，常驻的监听音量滑块、可调整大小的历史记录面板，以及色彩方案的微调，都让整体界面焕然一新，体验更愉悦。
- 🔧 我更关心实质性的功能升级，而这部分的“肉”显然更多……
- 🎚 现在大多数处理模块都支持差分（Delta）监听/处理，它会反转模块的输出内容。例如，在“对话隔离”（Dialogue Isolate）模块中，开启差分处理意味着对话会被从音频中移除，只留下背景噪声。这不仅能扩展模块的功能（沿用此例，Dialogue Isolate 也变成了“背景拟声隔离”功能！），在调整模块参数时也特别实用，让你更容易判断参数的影响效果。
- ✂️ 具体到模块更新，全新的静音修剪（Trim Silence）处理器尤其适用于播客、旁白轨和实地录音的剪辑。它能让你在编辑时更轻松地在不同对话段落（或任何录制内容）之间跳转。这也是个巨大的时间节省利器，而且与在 DAW 或 NLE 这类非破坏性环境中删除静音段不同，Trim Silence 会生成全新的音频文件，体积往往小得多，从而显著降低项目整体文件大小。
What’s new in iZotope RX 12?
The obligatory user interface update expected of all software updates is, in RX 12’s case, fairly subtle. So much so that one aspect flagged by iZotope – namely a larger spectrogram – is so marginal that I wouldn’t have noticed had it not been pointed out. Nevertheless, features such as an ever-present monitor volume slider, resizable History panel, and a small reworking of the colour palette, make for a pleasing refresh.
I’m more interested in the consequential stuff, though, and here there’s a lot more meat on the bones…
The majority of processing modules now offer difference (delta) monitoring/processing, which reverses what is output from the module. For example, with Dialogue Isolate, engaging difference processing means the dialogue will be removed from the audio, leaving background noise. While this is handy as a way of extending the functionality of modules (sticking with the example, Dialogue Isolate also becomes Background Foley Isolate!), it’s perhaps most useful when configuring module parameters, making it easier to judge the impact of those parameters.
Moving to specific modules, there’s an all-new Trim Silence processor that’s particularly useful when editing podcasts, voiceover tracks and field recordings, making it easier to move between sections of dialogue (or whatever you’ve recorded) during editing. It’s a big time-saver too and, unlike stripping silence in a non-destructive environment like a DAW or NLE, Trim Silence produces entirely new – and often much smaller – audio files, and so can significantly reduce the total file size of a project.