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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25 Comments
Jay
onA lot of people were complaining about Neutron 4 Elements cutting down functions from Neutron 3 Elements, does this have the seem problems?
Gery Zenz
onyes,unfortunately!
Michael in South Korea
onWhat will this give me over the free Neutron 4?
More options? Same options?
Wondering if I should bother getting it……
Stephen Charlton
onThey don’t seem to be trying to add more options with this release, just improve the workflow and make it sound better with improved algorithms.
Harlech
onHow do you get this for free? All I can see is a competition but no actual ability to get the plugin.
Stephen Charlton
onJust fill out the form. It’s not a competition. Everyone who fills out that form on the giveaway page gets a free plugin.
ObeyDominion
onI signed up and didn’t get the plug in, did I do something wrong? or I guess, not do something right?
Isaac
onMan, I really dislike this trend of taking control away. I gave up on 4 and still use 3 because you can actually control parameters. I don’t feel like this is even worth getting for free.
brah
onmy day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable
alex
onI gave up using it altogether :))) Jeez, these guys have been working really hard on dumbing their plugins down.
lars
onI’m old and kranky too. Where is all the fun in letting AI do the work for you?
alex
onWell, it doesn’t even do that. It will get one half or sometimes even most of the way there, but that’s worth nothing if they’re a beginner and don’t know what to do to make it really work. And if one knows what they do, they don’t need it anyway :)
alex
onAnd yes, music is supposed to be fun and we’re supposed to enjoy it. It should be created, not produced.
lars
onAin’t that the truth! Biutifully said.
lars
onHaha, right!
Robin
onI had Neutron 4 Elements for a while now. Never used it, because of reasons mentioned: I didn’t like barely having any control. Recently however I started using it a bit and I like it in certain cases. Sometimes I just don’t want to waste to much time on the mixing part and only the creation. It can help there.
Even if you really don’t want AI to do the work, it’s nice to have the option laying around for quickly slapping things together. There’s always the choice of replacing, or enhancing it with regular plugins later on to get the perfect sound.
Gabriele
onJust a quick respectful correction.
When you say, “The plugin offers mixing, mastering, and audio repair functions”, it seems like you referenced the blurb from the iZotope product page:
“iZotope – mixing, mastering, and audio repair […] the iZotope product line includes award-winning plugins […]”
Notice how this, however, refers to the “product line” (Ozone, RX, etc.), not just Neutron, which is intended primarily for mixing; you could certainly use it for mastering, too – no audio repair functions though!
Keep up the great work!
Ants
onSeen the Baby Audio freebie ..? not bad !
Numanoid
onYou mean Warp ?
Native Instruments is giving away a free Leap instrument. I am waiting for what Arturia will offer this x-mas
Paramita
onYeah Warp. How do I feel you also post on KVR? We are all music software geeks lol :D
I also got the Leap, haven’t tried yet. Arturia gift, nice, love those Frenchies ;)
Try the Raccoon free one on this site, quite amazing on bass. Coupled it with the also free Gorilla bass amp on a Hive 2 bass with Cubase 14 envelope follower, OMFG what a killer bass sound !
PHOO3Y
onSynthmaster 2 Player by KV331 is available as a FREE download (usually $29.00) until December 30th. It comes with 2000 factory presets from a world class team of sound designers such as Arksun, Aiyn Zahev, BT, Vandalism, etc.
Numanoid
onNice :-)
I wonder if they will also update Synthmaster 2 Player to v3, now that Synthmaster have gone v3 ?
Shchedry
onHey, could anybody please share Loopcloud Subscribers’ December Freebie: Native Instruments Massive universal coupon code and link at Pluginboutique? My bank card has been blocked recently, and therefore I can’t do any operations with it.
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Jack
onNeed KVR account, email confirmation, email approval, software confirmation, account creation, product activation.. and I gave up and published a song during the same amount of time.
Raymond Peck
onI created an account, and then it would not allow me to log in. I already have Neutron Elements 3 and 4, so after 10 minutes if struggling I gave up.