I have acquired both iZotpe's Nectar Plus and Ozone9 standard this year due to their significant discounts ($59/each) on both products. I have realized similar "benefits" from using both products, and with the excellent presets they provide, I get much better vocal end results with Nectar than I did previously where I used several plugins for the vocals and most recently have been relying on Waves Scheps Omni Channel for both vocals and mixing. Nectar Plus is very good and very easy to use, but eats up CPU, so I've had to alter my workflow to create the instrument tracks first, export a rough mixed track and import that into a second DAW project where I use Nectar to process the vocals.

Ozone9 does a similar very good job for mastering, the benefit of which is can be, and should be used, in standalone mode, to allow better CPU handling.

So now my workflow starts with BIAB2022 to develop and pre-mix an instrumental track; export the tracks into my DAW; process the tracks with plugin instruments and effects as desired; export a mixed track into a seperate project; record the vocals and process using Nectar; then export the vocal track(s) back to the instrumental project for final mixing. Then a simple export of the finished mix into a standalone Ozone9 for mastering. Seems more complicated and time-consuming, but allows me to keep using an older PC with the newer, more CPU intensive products, and still enjoy the "art" of making a personally pleasing song!

Last edited by cfcboc; 02/27/22 02:48 PM.
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