VEA is an AI audio enhancer built with iZotope technology that listens first, then enhances audio so creators can feel more confident with their voice and deliver better sounding content. VEA increases clarity, sets more consistent levels, and reduces background noise on any voice recording. The result makes any voice recording sound more professional.
"Many people don’t love the sound of their voice when listening back to a recording," explains Todd Baker, VP Product at Native Instruments. "VEA quickly polishes your vocal sound so you can feel more confident as a host or narrator. VEA is also easy to use even if you haven't worked with audio tools before, so you can spend more time focusing on what you want to say, not on how you sound."
For people that are new to audio production, VEA features three simple controls that are intelligently set by iZotope's AI technology. Those that are more familiar with editing vocal recordings will find a new way to finish productions quickly by consolidating their effects chains and saving on CPU.
The Shape control ensures audio sounds professional and audience-ready, without having to worry about an EQ. Shape is tailored to each voice, and matches the sound of top creators or podcasts with the free iZotope Audiolens tool. The Boost control adds loudness and compression as it’s turned up. Easily boosting the presence and power of voice recordings without spending time struggling with settings. And finally the Clean control takes background noise out of the spotlight so every voice can shine. VEA is able to learn the noise in the room automatically and preserves speech for light, transparent noise reduction.
VEA works as a plugin within major digital audio workstations (DAWs) and non-linear editors (NLEs). For a list of officially supported hosts, see the System Requirements at the iZotope website.
For over 25 years, Native Instruments has been at the forefront of musical innovation and DJing with leading products such as Komplete, Kontakt, Maschine, and Traktor. In June 2023, iZotope, Brainworx, and Plugin Alliance became part of Native Instruments, adding engineering capabilities across integrated software and hardware, AI and machine learning, the cloud, and more. Native Instruments was founded in Berlin in 1996. Today, it has offices in Berlin, Boston, Langenfeld, London, and Shenzhen.
Available now from www.izotope.com and select retailers, VEA costs just US/EUR $29
Earthworks Bundles
With the availability of VEA, US-based microphone manufacturer Earthworks announced that every new ETHOS, SR117, ICON and ICON Pro microphone will include bundled free licenses for iZotope's RX Elements and the new Voice Enhancement Assistant — VEA.
This is an additional $128 bonus value, and it's available for the whole year of 2024.
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