iZotope Relay

At first glance, the izotope relay plugin is a CPU-friendly utility for Mac that lets you adjust gain, panning, stereo imaging, and filter parameters of your tracks on the fly. When used together with other iZotope plugins that support inter-plugin communication (IPC), it becomes a gateway to numerous automated processes designed to streamline and optimize your entire mixing workflow on macOS.

Relay iZotope is applied to individual tracks on your Mac, functioning as a mini channel strip with controls for gain, panning, high-pass filtering, and even stereo width adjustment. Relay also communicates seamlessly with other iZotope plugins, enabling you to leverage machine learning features for masking removal, mix balance and focus, dialogue intelligibility monitoring, and much more. As a quick and straightforward tool for trimming or sweetening your audio, as well as for enhancing your overall production workflow, the iZotope Relay plugin is an excellent choice for any session template on Mac.

With Relay you can:

- Control panning, gain, width, and apply a high-pass filter to any track without needing to adjust DAW faders, all while maintaining minimal CPU consumption on your Mac system.

- View the frequency content of individual tracks within Tonal Balance Control 2, compare them against target curves, and make corrections to achieve the desired tonal balance in real time directly on your Mac.

- Mix all of your tracks in a visual space using the Visual Mixer in Neutron 3: By placing Relay on tracks or buses, you can open the Visual Mixer and adjust panning, gain, and stereo width directly within the Visual Mixer plugin included with Neutron 3 Advanced on macOS.

- Measure intelligibility using the Intelligibility Meter in Insight 2: With the brand-new meter available in Insight 2, measure the relative intelligibility of your vocals and visualize how clearly they will be heard across various listening environments and playback conditions on Mac.

- Remove masking from vocals using Nectar 3: What is izotope relay in this context? It interacts with the Unmask mode in Nectar 3 and provides automatic processing to remove masking frequencies from the vocal track, ensuring clarity and separation in your Mac-based mix. You can learn more about this feature here.

- Visualize the spectrum of different tracks against the full mix using the spectrogram in Insight 2: Insight 2 communicates with individual instances of Relay and displays them on the spectrogram with fully customizable colors, giving you detailed visual feedback on your Mac.

- With izotope relay placed on all of your tracks, you can use Mix Assistant (available in Neutron 3 Advanced) to automatically set an initial level balance across your entire session on Mac, providing a solid starting point for your mix.