iZotope Ozone 11 on MAC Studio M2 Ultra

jottweh

Does anyone have any experience as to whether "iZotope Ozone 11" runs smoothly in real time under Cubase 12/13 on a MAC Studio M2 Ultra or whether there are audio dropouts to be expected? My Windows 10 "Xeon E5-2680 v3" PC with 32 GB of RAM can usually no longer do this under Cubase 12 for projects with more than one track ;-), even if it's frozen - no chance. The reason for my question is: Can the "performance miracle" MAC M2 ultra also help here or is Ozone 11 so resource-hungry that no PC can do it anymore?

Vocalpoint

Ozone was never designed to be run in a typical Cubase session (like inserting it into separate tracks).

It is a mastering solution intended for use for - you know- mastering - where one is feeding totally mixed tracks into it via typical mix project - like in Wavelab or the Studio One Project area.

When used this way- it's all good.

But you are trying to dump multiple Ozone instances into a bass track, then vocal tracks, then guitar tracks, mix buses etc - inside a typical Cubase session - be prepared to have zero CPU left for anything else meaningful.

Haven't met a CPU yet that can run Ozone that way.

VP

jottweh

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/171860#Comment_171860

I place one Neutron and one Ozone instances in the Masterbus for first quick initial results.

Vocalpoint

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/171878#Comment_171878

If you CPU is melting down with just a single instance like this - just on the masterbus - you must have other problems here that you are not sharing - like a giant undocumented plugin-fest elsewhere in a typical session.

VP