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The Photon: Crossgrade from RX Standard Black Friday deal takes 50% off, bringing it to $74 until Dec 7, 2026, and it is for owners of RX Standard only.
Photon comes from iZotope and works both as its own program and as an ARA plugin, using AI to split audio into stems and to clean up or improve recordings. It runs 12 machine learning models, trained on iZotope's own real-world audio data.
Processing happens locally on your GPU. The maker says that means no uploads, no cutoffs and no interruptions.
It turns a finished file into editable parts. You can split stems, separate speakers, remove noise and restore voices.
The maker says it can isolate vocals even in a conversation with up to 6 speakers.
The Demix side covers several jobs, each with its own model:
Voice 2 Stems is the quick route to an instrumental or an acapella, and you can set the balance anywhere between all vocal and all music.
The Denoise models target echo, wind, traffic and background noise while balancing levels and vocal clarity. You pick the model that matches the environment, set the strength, click anywhere in the clip and hear the result right away.
The cleanup models are:
Voice Restore handles distant or muffled speech. It gives you control over noise, levels, mic tone and echo.
Yes, through the Photon ARA plugin. ARA hands the plugin the whole clip instead of a real-time buffer, so the models work with the full context of the file.
You can run several models together. Processed audio is cached and shared among all copies of the same clip, which lets you flip between versions and audition them back to back with no render delay.
The maker lists 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. 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.
Yes. The Photon: Crossgrade from RX Standard Black Friday deal is 50% off, at $74 until Dec 7, 2026. It is a crossgrade, so it is meant for owners of RX Standard.
Photon comes from iZotope and runs either on its own or inside a host through ARA, handling AI-based separation of stems along with cleanup and improvement of audio. It splits stems, separates speakers, removes noise and restores voices, using 12 machine learning models that run locally on your GPU.
Yes. Music 4 Stems splits a finished song into voice, drums, bass and other. Music 4 Stems Ultra does the same with finer precision. Drums 5 Stems splits a kit into kick, snare, hi-hat, toms and cymbals.
The Photon ARA plugin brings the full engine to your timeline. The maker lists Pro Tools, Sequoia, Samplitude, REAPER, Cubase and other ARA2 hosts. It processes the whole clip, and results carry across instances through a shared cache.
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