Photon: Crossgrade from any paid iZotope product Black Friday Deal 2026: $179, 33% off

The Photon: Crossgrade Black Friday deal takes 33% off, bringing it to $179 until Dec 7, 2026, and it is for owners of any paid iZotope product.

You can run Photon on its own or load it into your DAW through ARA, and it uses AI to pull tracks apart into stems and to polish the sound. The maker says it runs 12 machine learning models, trained on its own real-world audio data, locally on your GPU.

That means no uploads, no cutoffs and no interruptions.

What does Photon do?

It splits finished audio into editable elements and cleans up noisy recordings. The maker groups the job into four moves:

• Split stems: turn a song, scene or drum kit into elements you can rebalance
• Separate speakers: split up to 6 voices, plus room tone and background
• Remove noise: clear echo, wind, traffic and background noise
• Restore voices: bring distant, muffled speech forward and balance levels

Demix models

Drop in any audio or video file and split it without opening a session. Each separator is its own model:

• Music 4 Stems: voice, drums, bass and other
• Music 4 Stems Ultra: the same four stems with finer precision, for when one stem has to stand alone
• Voice Separator: up to 6 speakers into individual stems
• Cinema 4 Stems: voice, music, sound effects and other
• Drums 5 Stems: kick, snare, hi-hat, toms and cymbals, from a drum bus or a full song
• Voice 2 Stems: voice and music, for a quick instrumental or acapella

You preview from anywhere in the track before you export what you need.

Denoise and Voice Restore

The denoise models are matched to the environment. You pick the model, set the strength, click anywhere in the clip and hear the result straight away.

• Indoor (Fast): room noise and echo
• Indoor Noisy (Fast): busy rooms like factory floors and event halls
• Outdoor (Fast): general background noise from open-air recordings
• Outdoor Traffic (Fast): trained on traffic and urban noise
• Outdoor Wind (Fast): built for tough conditions, not just a light breeze

Voice Restore is the speech tool. It handles noise, levels, mic tone and echo, so a far-away podcast guest or a muffled livestream mic comes forward.

ARA plugin and Model Manager

The Photon ARA plugin puts the full engine on your DAW timeline. Through ARA, the plugin gets access to the entire audio clip at once rather than small live chunks, letting it analyze everything in the file when processing.

You can run several models together. A processed audio cache carries results across every instance of a clip, so switching and comparing doesn't mean waiting.

It is available in Pro Tools, Sequoia, Samplitude, REAPER, Cubase and other ARA2 hosts.

New and upgraded models appear in the Model Manager as they ship. You can try them on the project in front of you with no reinstall.

Photon is the first joint research effort from iZotope and Boris FX, and it continues the development of SoundApp.