KVR Audio and Izotope have teamed up to give away Izotope’s new Neutron 5 Elements intelligent mixing suite for free until December 31, 2024.
Neutron 5 Elements is a 64-bit only macOS and Windows release available in AAX, AU, and VST3 formats.
The plugin, normally priced at $49, is brand spanking new, having just dropped on October 29, 2024.
To get your free copy of Neutron 5 Elements, sign up for a free KVR Audio account (if you haven’t already), verify your email address and then fill out the entry form on the giveaway page below.
Licenses are issued manually, so after processing (within 48 hours), you can expect to get your plugin license via email from the KVR Marketplace.
Neutron 5 Elements, like the previous version of the plugin, is an AI-powered audio assistant designed to help producers sculpt tracks quickly and intuitively, without needing to do a knob-twiddling deep dive.
The plugin offers mixing, mastering, and audio repair functions.
Izotope absolutely loves to give away the Neutron Elements plugins and has frequently given away both Neutron 3 and Neutron 4, so this just continues the trend.
Neutron 5 Elements is the little brother of the full Neutron 5 ($249) suite of 10 mixing tools, so I guess Izotope is hoping users love the cut-down version enough to upsize to the full version.
So what’s new in Neutron 5 Elements? Izotope has improved the Assistant View and Mix Assistant processing, producing an easier workflow and better audio output.
As with the previous version, the plugin integrates with the Audiolens app allowing referencing from an audio source or tracks from streaming services.
Neutron 5 Elements has a processing chain with four components, which are the Assistant, Dynamics, Saturation and Width sections.
The Assistant analyses your audio and recommends the optimal settings, which you can then further tweak if desired.
So when I looked at the plugin in action, it’s clear that each section is fairly minimalist.
As with Neutron 4 Elements, the new version is not designed to give you deep customization.
It’s all about leveraging the AI to speed up your mixing and offloading a lot of the knob twiddling to the AI Assistant.
For me, it seems like the plugin is best suited to writing and demoing when you don’t want to get bogged down with tweaking parameters.
If you want to get more options for tweaking the audio in a more specific direction, there’s always the full version, or if you’re a cranky old man like me, you can do it the old-fashioned way with individual plugins.
There are already before and after demos on YouTube that give a good indication of what the Assistant and processing chain is capable of.
Check out the deal: Neutron 5 Elements (FREE with a KVR Audio account until December 31st)
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