


The controls “lock” in place when you’re adjusting, keeping your field of view clear while evaluating your moves. This is useful if you want to make small adjustments to the gain of an EQ node and not change its frequency, or vice versa.

I wasn't expecting this as a feature, and I'd never seen anyone else mention it, so it was a great surprise, after scanning in FL for new plugins, to discover that the modules were all listed individually.A subtle but important fix users have been asking for, you can now “text scrub” in Ozone 9 just like in previous versions. I 've had Ozone 7 and 8 and they've gone from strength to strengthm but one of the things I loved immedately about 9, is that you can load every one of the modules as a vst in it's own right, so I could load Vintage tape on a snare, and then grab Neutron 3's Transient shaper, or any other combination, without needing to use all those modules only from within the Ozone shell program itself, and I find that liberating, because if I wanted to use the exciter on a hi hat, I don't have to load the whole program, which is like using a sledgehammer to open a peanut. I got the Tonal balance bundle, so along with Ozone 9 advanced, I also got Neutron 3 advanced and Nectar 3 Plus. or even just show the curve as a comparison reference while you program in your own EQ with other plugins. So if you wanted your vocal to match the frequency curve of a pro isolated vocal you found, or to match the EQ of your guitar to an isolated pro guitar part, you could save a snapshot of the isolated track to your library, then use Ozone 4 to match to it. I'd built a library of EQ curve snapshots from my favorite songs, and also of isolated tracks from commercial songs. And then there's the frequency matching & morphing! Ozone 7 has this too, but Ozone 4 let you save snapshots of different songs / channels & reload the snapshots from a file later.

Sometimes that's exactly what you need to remove noise & keep the sparkle on a channel. The Multiband Dynamics in Ozone 4 includes a gate feature that isn't in 7, so you can eliminate specific frequency ranges below a certain threshold. Even though I have Ozone 7 and use it most of the time, I still use Ozone 4 for a few things, though usually on a channel rather than the master bus.
