Ozone 11 Elements

[ShaunS]

Hi all,
I just recently purchased and installed the mastering plug-in Oxone 11 Elements, it seems to be playing havoc with my DAW (PreSonus Studio One)
I have an old computer, (normally goes fine), but I think this plug-in may be sucking up too much juice. Anyone else had this issue?
ShaunsS

Just as a follow up to the above post
when I tried it on a track the DAW crashed, actually this happened twice, maybe it's not compatible with my set up.
As a novice I'm leaning towards not using plug ins but instead learning how to use compression and EQ, reverb, to a competent level and just doing it myself.
I'm thinking it might be more fruitful over the long term.
Any feedback on that strategy folks?
ShaunS

[Telefunkin]

The system requirements for Ozone 11 are published by Izotope, and an old machine might come up short on one or more items.
https://www.izotope.com/en/products/ozone.html#specs
[check near the foot of the page]
I can't use v11 with my 5y old version of Cubase for example, even though the rest of my PC might be fine, so I still use v8.

Generally, I find Ozone can be a bit resource hungry. However, more detailed comments are a stab in the dark unless you let people know your system details (PC/Mac, processor, memory, op system, DAW version, etc). If everything is within spec (i.e. its simply a matter of taking up too many resources) then you can start to look at things like eliminating superfluous plugins, rendering midi to audio, freezing tracks, etc. There's plenty of info on this if you search on Youtube.

[cosmicdolphin]

Definitely a CPU hog

[GregD]

I'm running it on an intel i9 3.70 GHz with 32 gigs of ram with no problems.

[cosmicdolphin]

I'm running it on an intel i9 3.70 GHz with 32 gigs of ram with no problems.

Most of us are mastering within the DAW project itself, it's when you add it to a session that already has lots of other plugins and VSTi's running that you start to notice it's heavy on CPU.

[ochaim]

https://audiogridder.com/ is a vst host that takes digital signal processing beyond the serial processing constraints of most daws and spreads the processing to other available cores.

Its meant to work with networked computers to offload processing but you can still install it on your main computer to get the efficiency benefits described above.

I havent used it with ozone but it works well with Acustica plugins that are also notoriously CPU intensive.

[BradleyHagen]

I own and use alot of Izotope stuff, its VERY CPU heavy, especially Ozone 11, because it taps into some AI... I know it sucks, but you may have to up your CPU and RAM game at some point