Photon: Crossgrade from RX Elements Black Friday Deal 2026: $129, 35% off

For people who already own RX Elements, the Photon: Crossgrade Black Friday deal takes 35% off iZotope's AI stem separation and audio enhancement tool, bringing it to $129 until Dec 7, 2026.

This is a crossgrade, so it only applies if RX Elements is already in your collection.

Photon is a standalone app and an ARA plugin. The maker says it runs 12 machine learning models, custom-trained on iZotope's own real-world audio data, and that all processing happens locally on your GPU. No uploads, no cutoffs.

What does Photon do?

It splits finished audio into editable pieces, cleans up noisy recordings, and brings buried speech forward.

• Split stems from songs, scenes and drum kits
• Separate up to 6 speakers in a conversation
• Remove echo, wind, traffic and background noise
• Restore distant or muffled voices and balance levels

Drop in any audio or video file and you can edit it without opening a session.

Which separation models are included?

The demix side is built from several dedicated models:

• Music 4 Stems: voice, drums, bass and other
• Music 4 Stems Ultra: the same four stems with finer precision, for when a stem has to stand alone
• Voice Separator: up to 6 voices as individual stems, plus room tone and background
• Cinema 4 Stems: voice, music, sound effects and other
• Drums 5 Stems: kick, snare, hi-hat, toms and cymbals
• Voice 2 Stems: voice and music, for a quick instrumental or acapella

You can preview from anywhere in the track before you export.

How does the cleanup side work?

There are separate denoise models for different environments: Indoor (Fast), Indoor Noisy (Fast), Outdoor (Fast), Outdoor Traffic (Fast) and Outdoor Wind (Fast). The maker says the models find and fix the problem while balancing levels and vocal clarity.

Pick the model that matches where you recorded, set the strength, click anywhere in the clip and you hear the result straight away.

Voice Restore is the tool for speech. It gives you control over noise, levels, mic tone and echo, so a far-off podcast guest or a muffled livestream mic stays intelligible.

Photon inside your DAW

The Photon ARA plugin puts the full engine on your timeline. ARA hands the plugin the entire clip instead of a real-time buffer, so the models work with the full context of the file.

You can run several models together, and a cache of processed audio carries results across every instance of a clip, so switching and comparing doesn't mean waiting. It works in Pro Tools, Sequoia, Samplitude, REAPER, Cubase and other ARA2 hosts.

The Model Manager is where new and upgraded models show up as they are released, and you can try them on your current project without reinstalling.

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