CAMBRIDGE, Mass. /Music Industry Newswire/ — ­ Since 2007, Harmonix’s Rock Band has enabled players to live out their fantasy as a rock vocalist. Now, thanks to a technology licensing agreement with iZotope, Inc., a research-driven audio signal processing company, gamers who play upcoming Rock Band 3 this holiday will be able to take their vocal performance to new heights.

Using iZotope’s real-time pitch detection and pitch shifting middleware, Rock Band 3 provides players with the option to enable vocal effects commonly used in the music industry, assisting players to sing on key more easily with pitch correction and bringing the tools that pros use into the living room.

“The ability to have pitch correction in real-time helps to enhance the vocal gameplay and players’ in-game performance in Rock Band,” said Eran Egozy, CTO and co-founder of Harmonix. “We’re excited to feature iZotope’s technology and this new middleware in Rock Band 3 so that our players can enjoy the type of vocal effects that professional rock stars utilize for live stage performances in their homes this holiday.”

“With the production values of video games rivaling that of commercial albums and blockbuster films, consumers expect the same caliber of video and audio quality during dynamic, real-time game play,” explains Mark Ethier, CEO of iZotope. “Rock Band is an ideal platform for us to showcase iZotope’s technology so we can provide gamers with studio-grade audio effects that professional mixers, sound designers and others in the entertainment industry have relied on for years.”

iZotope’s extensive technology licensing program already includes industry giants like Adobe, Sony, and Avid.

Developed by Harmonix, the world’s premier music videogame company, published by MTV Games, Rock Band 3 will ship simultaneously worldwide this Holiday 2010 in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and other territories for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, the Wii system from Nintendo, and Nintendo DS. Rock Band 3 will be compatible with all Rock Band and The Beatles: Rock Band peripherals, as well as most third-party instrument and microphone controllers. Mad Catz is the official peripheral manufacturer and distributor for Rock Band game controllers.

Cambridge, Mass. /Music Industry Newswire/ — iZotope, Inc., a research-driven audio signal processing company born out of MIT, is offering high quality DSP to mobile application developers through their extensive licensing program.

For nearly a decade iZotope has worked with small and large companies in Music, Film, TV and Radio Broadcast, Corporate A/V, Consumer Electronics, Business and Telecommunications. Top audio products such as Adobe Audition, Sony Sound Forge, Minnetonka AudioTools™ AWE, Avid (Digidesign) Pro Tools, as well as video products such as Grass Valley / Canopus Edius 5 and Techsmith Camtasia Studio rely on iZotope DSP to provide the highest quality audio and functionality for their end users.

Mobile devices have become a premier platform for entertainment, with thousands of exciting apps available for making music, playing games, and listening to radio streams. These experiences are all improved with creative audio effects, pitch and time processing. For example, live audio streams broadcast via radio apps can be sonically enhanced using the same mastering technology available in iZotope’s award-winning Ozone plug-in.

Smartphone devices are used daily to record voice memos, lectures and other events in a variety of environments. The combination of iZotope’s noise reduction and vocal enhancement technologies can vastly improve the quality of these audio recordings. Using iZotope’s advanced time processing algorithms, audio can be slowed down for transcription or sped up for previewing, without any degradation or artifacts in the speech.

Introduced in 2008, iZotope’s iDrum for iPhone app quickly became one of the top music creation and beat-making apps in the App Store. iZotope later partnered with high-profile artists such as RZA of Wu-Tang, Depeche Mode and Underworld to transform the app into an effective platform for marketing and promoting musicians, bands and record labels. Now with integrated Facebook and Twitter sharing, the iDrum for iPhone app is an even more effective tool – not just for music marketing, but for product branding.

For more information on iZotope’s licensing programs, visit www.izotope.com/tech/izomobile.

AES, New York, NY /Music Industry Newswire/ — iZotope, Inc., a leading developer of audio signal processing tools and effects, announces the addition of media product veteran Hart Shafer to the position of Director of Product Management. Shafer joins iZotope from Adobe Systems Incorporated and will be tasked with the worldwide responsibility for strategy and design of iZotope’s technology and products.

“Hart’s diverse experience with product management and especially his recent strategic planning experience with Adobe will bring an immediate benefit to iZotope’s growing product line,” explains Mark Ethier, CEO of iZotope, Inc. “His addition reinforces iZotope’s dedication to filling out our current offerings and leveraging our technology to expand into new markets.”

Educated in physics and mathematics at Macalester College, and a long-time media product management veteran, Shafer brings a unique mix of experience to iZotope. Previously, he held various roles at Syntrillium Software, including product manager for Cool Edit 2000, Cool Edit Pro, and the rest of the Syntrillium line. When Adobe acquired Syntrillium in 2003, Shafer transitioned to take on product management of Adobe’s audio efforts including Adobe Audition® and Soundbooth®, and then Creative Suite Production Premium and unannounced projects in the Dynamic Media Organization.

Shafer and his iZotope colleagues will be on hand at the AES show in booth #427 featuring demos of the ANR-B realtime adaptive noise reduction hardware and the new product Alloy, a suite of essential mixing tools.

About iZotope, Inc.

iZotope is a research-driven audio signal processing company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its hardware products, software products, and audio technology are used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from hobbyist musicians to GRAMMY Award winners. iZotope focuses on developing innovative audio technology for professional and consumer applications. This core technology is presented to customers in its award-winning product line and through its extensive licensing program.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. /Music Industry Newswire/ — ­iZotope, Inc. announced today that its distribution relationship with M-Audio came to a close on October 1st, 2009. iZotope will now handle distribution responsibilities of its Ozone 4, iZotope RX, Spectron and Trash products. iZotope is also transitioning to an eco-friendly digital serial number delivery system to their dealer and distributor network.

iZotope has experienced expansion over the past few years and feels this shift is a natural extension of their development as a company. “M-Audio has played an important role in iZotope’s growth into an industry-standard and world-recognized brand. Since the number and breadth of our product offerings has grown, iZotope will now work directly with our dealer and distributor network to serve their needs and our end-customer needs,” explained Bruce Bartone, Director of Sales for iZotope. “Additionally, our shift to digital distribution will not only allow us to serve our customers better but also eliminate unnecessary packaging.”

iZotope will transition to distribute their products digitally only by delivering serial numbers directly to their dealer and distributor network. Dealers and distributors interested in learning more about iZotope products should contact iZotope’s Sales Department or visit iZotope at their AES booth #427 in NYC this week.

eMedia Music will continue to handle iZotope’s worldwide consumer channel in order to distribute products such as iDrum and other upcoming releases. iZotope will handle responsibility for the direct distribution of their worldwide Music Industry (MI) and Pro Audio channels. The iZotope MI line includes products such as Ozone 4, iZotope RX, Spectron, Trash, Radius for Logic Pro and Soundtrack Pro, and the newly released Alloy. The iZotope Pro Audio line includes the ANR-B adaptive noise reduction hardware unit, RX Advanced, and an upcoming line of professional hardware and software processors.

About iZotope, Inc.
iZotope is a research-driven audio signal processing company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its hardware products, software products, and audio technology are used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from hobbyist musicians to GRAMMY Award winners. iZotope focuses on developing innovative audio technology for professional and consumer applications. This core technology is presented to customers in its award-winning product line and through its extensive licensing program, which now includes iPhone middleware.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. /Music Industry Newswire/ — ­ iZotope, Inc., a leading innovator in audio signal processing, announces Alloy, a new audio plug-in that combines six essential sound shaping tools into one integrated interface. iZotope’s award-winning Ozone has become an industry standard for audio mastering, and now Alloy brings the company’s expertise into the realm of mixing with completely new audio effects and workflow features designed for track and bus use. Alloy is designed for any audio mixing application from professional recording and post-production studios to the home studio, and its uniquely configurable interface helps pros work faster while giving less experienced users simple starting points for mixing.

“iZotope Alloy brings the sound quality and unique features you expect from iZotope to your tracks and busses,” Explains Nick Dika, product manager for Alloy, “It would have been easy to make ‘just another channel strip’, but instead we’ve designed Alloy to be a new class of plug-in, that includes forward thinking new features and brings essential tools for mixing together in a unique new way.”

Alloy includes six modules: Equalizer, Exciter, Transient, Dynamics, De-Esser, Exciter, and Limiter. Over 150 “MacroPresets” combine Alloy’s modules into custom configurations for specific mixing situations, and each preset has a custom Macro layout showing the user simple, useful controls for the task at hand. Advanced users can build their own layouts and move modules around in the signal chain to customize the plug-in.

Sonically, iZotope Alloy combines the precision of digital processing with the subtlety and character of analog hardware. The Exciter’s Harmonic Scaling technology lets users blend between different types of harmonic saturation, from Tube to Tape to Transistor, to add just the right amount of warmth and character to their tracks. The Compressor’s program-dependant “Vintage” mode can smooth out vocals with the forgiving characteristics of a classic optical compressor, or slam drums when more aggressive settings are dialed in. The Dynamics module also features two stages that can be used to create parallel compression effects, and advanced sidechaining that includes multiband and cross-band triggering, for unique ducking and gating effects. An exceptional sounding Transient Shaper can add punch to drums in single band mode, or zero in on transients in more complex material in multiband mode. Throughout Alloy, iZotope has taken key mixing tools and approached them from a new angle, making Alloy a great addition to any musician, sound designer or engineer’s DAW or audio editing application. Alloy is compatible with VST, AU, RTAS/AudioSuite, MAS and DirectX hosts.

iZotope Alloy is designed to complement Ozone, especially for users who like to use the popular mastering plug-in on tracks and busses. Alloy introduces an efficient, zero-latency alternative that streamlines the mixing process and provides many unique new features designed specifically for mixing not found in Ozone including De-Essing, Vintage compression, Sidechaining, a new Harmonic Scaling Exciter, Transient Shaper, custom MacroPreset layouts and more. iZotope is also offering crossgrade pricing from Ozone to Alloy. Ozone customers can find their discount codes for Alloy by logging into in to their accounts at www.izotope.com.

Price and Availability: Alloy is distributed by iZotope and is available at authorized retailers for $249 MSRP.

About iZotope, Inc.
iZotope is a research-driven audio signal processing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its hardware products, software products, and audio technology are used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from hobbyist musicians to GRAMMY Award winners. iZotope focuses on developing innovative audio technology for professional and consumer applications. This core technology is presented to customers in its award-winning product line and through its extensive licensing program, which now includes an iPhone middleware program.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. /Music Industry Newswire/ — ­iZotope, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of iZotope Radius for Logic and Apple Soundtrack Pro, a new version of their high-end time stretching and pitch shifting algorithm previously built for Apple’s Logic Pro. This new version has been updated with support for Logic 9 as well as Soundtrack Pro 3.

iZotope Radius allows for independent control over timing and pitch of any audio material while preserving the character and acoustic space of the original recording. Using an advanced hybrid method, it is able to preserve transients and sustained material simultaneously, making it extremely useful for modifying fully mixed performances as well as individual instruments, voices, or other audio sources. This new version of Radius adds a new pitch coherence control that enables enhanced control over the soundstage.

Because iZotope Radius is designed for completely transparent operation on a wide variety of source material, it is well suited for many applications in audio post production such as matching soundtracks, voiceovers, or other audio cues to video clips and pull-up, pull-down for film and video conversion.

Key features:
• Time streching between 12.5% and 800%
• Pitch shift from -36 to +36 semitones
• Maintains original acoustic space and sound stage
• Preserves transient attacks and timing accuracy
• Formant correction with strength and shift control
• Preserves Dolby matrix encoding
• Maintains phase coherency and stereo image
• Supports sample rates up to 192 kHz

iZotope Radius for Logic Pro and Soundtrack Pro is available for purchase directly from iZotope for $399.99 USD.

About iZotope, Inc.

iZotope is a research-driven audio signal processing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its hardware products, software products, and audio technology are used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from hobbyist musicians to GRAMMY Award winners. iZotope focuses on developing innovative audio technology for professional and consumer applications. This core technology is presented to customers in its award-winning product line and through its extensive licensing program, which now includes an iPhone middleware program.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. /Music Industry Newswire/ — iZotope, Inc. announces iDrum Beatboxing Edition, the latest addition to their popular line of iDrum Apps for iPhone and iPod touch. This new edition puts the user in the spotlight to record custom samples, add fun effects, and create unique beats.

iDrum for iPhone and iPod touch makes beatboxing easy, even with no prior musical experience. Its pattern-based layout and built-in library of hundreds of beatboxing vocal and percussion samples will have you creating beats in no time. In addition to the built-in sounds, you can easily record your own samples at the touch of a button using the iPhone 3G built-in microphone, add effects, and add your new custom sounds to existing beats, or create something entirely new.

“With this new edition, we have put even more creative power into our users hands”, says Mark Ethier, CEO of iZotope. “You can literally be anywhere and capture your own custom content in a ready-to-go format for making beats. It’s fun, addictive, and creative all at the same time.”

iDrum Beatboxing Edition is the eighth edition in iZotope’s iPhone App lineup. The line also includes editions with genre specific content such as Club, Rock, and Hip-hop editions as well as collaborations with major music artists and record labels such as Ministry of Sound, Major Lazer, and Depeche Mode. These editions feature exclusive content from the artists themselves that can be mixed, edited, and arranged to make new, custom beats.

iDrum Beatboxing Edition Features:

• Includes hundreds of beatboxing sounds and 20 preset kits
• Easy recording using the iPhone’s built in mic
• Sound effects like “Robot”, “Reverse”, “Cave”, and “Metallic”
• Easy to use pattern-based interface
• Ability to save patterns as ring tones
• Transfer files to iDrum Desktop version for further editing
• Tap the touch screen to play and record your own musical patterns
• Customize patterns to create your own unique beats

Purchase iDrum Beatboxing Edition for $4.99 on the iTunes App Store.

Cambridge, Mass. /Music Industry Newswire/ — iZotope, Inc., a leading innovator in audio signal processing technology, has expanded their extensive licensing program with a suite of audio enhancement tools and effects available for integration into 3rd party software applications for the iPhone and iPod touch handheld devices.

“We are seeing a significant demand for our audio effect libraries on the iPhone as thousands of developers are flocking to this revolutionary platform. These developers are redefining the way consumers interact with their music and audio,” explained Mark Ethier, CEO of iZotope. “With our offerings for the iPhone, we are excited to enable their innovation as the first to offer high quality audio algorithms for developers to integrate into their applications.”

Over the years, many companies have come to rely on iZotope’s research and development, product design, and long-term support to help improve and differentiate their products. The new iZotope Mobile Audio software development library is based on award-winning and innovative audio DSP code base derived from iZotope’s best in class professional and consumer product lines. Now phone applications can benefit from the same audio processing technology used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from independent musicians to major broadcast and recording studios and GRAMMY Award winners.

Two key iPhone application developers will be among the first to incorporate iZotope technology into their products. “FiRe” from Audiofile Engineering and “SmackTalk!” from Marcus Satellite will both feature licensed audio tools from iZotope.

Audiofile Engineering, a leading Mac-based developer of professional audio products, plans to incorporate iZotope audio effects for audio normalization, cleanup, and enhancement in an upcoming release of their highly-regarded “FiRe” Field Recorder App for the iPhone. “We already rely on iZotope’s expertise and audio DSP for our Mac OS X line of products, so it was natural for us to work with iZotope to bring high quality audio processing to the iPhone,” explains Matthew Foust, Co-founder of Audiofile Engineering. Audiofile Engineering is actively developing new iPhone applications as well as providing development services to produce third party iPhone applications.

Marcus Satellite, an animation and electronic music veteran turned App producer, is looking forward to using the iZotope audio effects SDK in his top-100 best selling iPhone App “SmackTalk!” to enhance his users’ experience by adding a wide array of interactive voice effects. “I’ve been using iZotope’s audio DSP technology as VST plug-ins on the desktop, and I’m excited about having that level of quality and interactivity available on the iPhone platform.”

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. /Music Industry Newswire/ — ­ iZotope, Inc. and Downtown Records have collaborated to bring a new edition of the popular iPhone and iPod Touch music app, iDrum, to the iPhone and iPod touch. iDrum: Major Lazer lets you instantly remix elements from the new album, Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do, produced by dance floor innovators Diplo and Switch along with lazer-armed commando Major Lazer. With a huge arsenal of dancehall drums, laser blasts, instrument hits, sound effects and vocal samples, iDrum: Major Lazer is the ultimate zombie-fighting accessory.

Take control and re-arrange rhythms, drums, effects and more from songs on the album. Or use the raw drums, effects and instrument sounds to make your own musical creations. iDrum’s simple interface lets you build beats layer by layer by tapping the touch screen. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never made a beat before–with iDrum, you can create music with simple shapes and color combinations that let you visualize the rhythm.

“mi use di Major Lazer iPhone ting fi remix my chune dem an done di dance. so run guh get it, zeen?” – Major Lazer

• Unique Major Lazer sounds ward off vampires and zombies, now with 20% more zombie-fighting power!
• Use actual sounds from Major Lazer to make music on your iPhone or iPod touch
• Includes 10 customizable kits that include elements from songs on the album
• Take control of the rhythm of every drum sound and sample
• Remix rhythmic patterns from the album or start from scratch to make your own creations
• Bring sounds in and out of the mix to change the music
• Tap the touch screen to play and record your own musical patterns
• Customize patterns to create your own unique beats

Purchase iDrum: Major Lazer as well as the new album on iTunes.

About Major Lazer
Major Lazer is a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984. The US military rescued him and repurposed experimental lazers as prosthetic limbs. Since then Major Lazer has been a hired renegade soldier for a rogue government operating in secrecy underneath the watch of M5 and the CIA. His cover is that of a dancehall night club owner from Trinidad and he enlisted the help of long-time allies and uber-producers, Diplo and Switch, to produce his first LP. His true mission is to protect the world from the dark forces of evil that live just under the surface of a civilized society. He fights vampires and various monsters, parties hard, and has a rocket powered skateboard.

About iZotope, Inc.
iZotope is a research-driven audio signal processing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its hardware products, software products, and audio technology are used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from hobbyist musicians to GRAMMY Award winners. iZotope focuses on developing innovative audio technology for professional and consumer applications. This core technology is presented to customers in its award-winning product line and through its extensive licensing program, which now includes an iPhone middleware SDK.

About Downtown Music
Downtown Music, LLC is an independently owned company which operates Downtown Records, Downtown Music Publishing, Downtown Music Services (Licensing Group) and Downtown Recording Studios. Downtown Records is comprised of its Downtown and Mercer Street imprints and joint venture partners Dim Mak, Fool’s Gold, and Mad Decent Records. Downtown Records is distributed by Universal Music’s Fontana Distribution, with certain releases distributed by ADA. Offices are located in New York and Los Angeles.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. /Music Industry Newswire/ — ­ iZotope, Inc. and Mute Records have collaborated to bring a Depeche Mode music application, iDrum: Depeche Mode Sounds of the Universe, to the iPhone and iPod touch. iZotope’s popular, interactive iDrum apps let iPhone and iPod touch users create music by tapping the touch screen and rearranging simple shapes and color combinations. The Depeche Mode edition of iDrum includes content from the band’s critically-acclaimed new album, Sounds of the Universe.

Depeche Mode experimented with iDrum for the iPhone/iPod touch in the studio while making Sounds of the Universe, and are now offering their own edition of iDrum on the App Store. Fans can take control of rhythmic patterns, drum hits, effects and instrument sounds from the album to create instant remixes or new original music on their handsets. The album’s producer, Ben Hillier, also produced the content for this iDrum Edition, which includes key rhythmic elements, effects and instrument samples from Sounds of the Universe.

“Since the original iDrum app was released, it’s the music application I’ve been using most on my iPod touch,” said Daniel Miller, chairman and founder of Mute Records. “When the idea came up for Depeche Mode to do their own version of iDrum I thought it was very exciting and I’m glad it’s come to fruition. The app includes really great sounds, and it gives fans and electronic musicians the opportunity to enjoy the album in a completely new way.”

iDrum: Depeche Mode Sounds of the Universe is available for $4.99 on the Apple App Store and includes ten customizable kits with sounds from songs on the album. Additionally, iDrum: Depeche Mode Sounds of the Universe allows users to manipulate album sounds to create music by:

• Tapping the touch screen to play and record musical patterns
• Taking control of the rhythm of every drum sound and sample
• Remixing rhythmic patterns from the album or starting from scratch to make new musical creations
• Bringing sounds in and out of the mix to change the music
• Customizing patterns to create unique new beats

“Depeche Mode’s innovative music is a perfect fit for iDrum. We’re excited to give fans a fun, unique way to creatively interact with Sounds of the Universe—whether they have musical experience or not,” said Nick Dika, content manager at iZotope.

iDrum Offers New Promotional Tool and Revenue Stream for Labels

Aside from its entertainment value, iDrum also serves as a new promotional platform and revenue stream for the label and artist. As record labels look to find ways to appeal to the ever-evolving digital consumer, musical entertainment apps are becoming a popular new way to promote releases and even make up for sliding CD sales. iZotope CEO Mark Ethier explains:

“As the music world shifts from an album-centric model, we’re noticing a renewed focus on finding new ways to connect fans and artists, such as social networking and mobile applications. iDrum Editions are a great way for labels and artists to be a part of the booming App Store market and benefit from a new knd of promotional vehicle that helps bring fans one step closer to the inner workings of their favorite bands.”

iDrum: Depeche Mode Sounds of the Universe is available for $4.99 on the Apple App Store.

About iZotope, Inc.
iZotope is a research-driven audio signal processing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its hardware products, software products, and audio technology are used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from hobbyist musicians to GRAMMY Award winners. iZotope focuses on developing innovative audio technology for professional and consumer applications. This core technology is presented to customers in its award-winning product line and through its extensive licensing program, which now includes an iPhone middleware SDK.