iZotope – Equinox (Windows)

Description

🎧 iZotope Equinox – The Future of Reverb for Music and Post Production

iZotope Equinox is the next-generation reverb plugin that brings together musicality, innovation, and cinematic depth into one refined and comprehensive tool. Designed for both music production and immersive post-production workflows, Equinox fuses the best of Exponential Audio’s legacy reverbs—Stratus and Symphony—with iZotope’s advanced audio processing capabilities.

Built from the ground up with clarity, space, and control in mind, Equinox is more than just a reverb plugin. It’s a reverb engine for the modern age—scalable, adaptable, and tailored for stereo to 7.1.6 surround and beyond, making it equally at home in music studios, post-production suites, and immersive audio environments like Dolby Atmos.

🌌 Core Highlights

🔊 Dual Reverb Architecture: Natural & Characterful

Equinox is powered by two distinct reverb algorithms:

• Stratus Engine: Known for its natural, pristine reverberation—ideal for orchestral, ambient, acoustic, and cinematic scoring.

• Symphony Engine: A more colorful, character-driven reverb—excellent for bold synths, guitars, sound design, and pop productions.

These engines can be freely combined, offering an incredibly broad palette of space design—from ultra-clean halls and chambers to dense, modulated ambient textures.

🧠 Intelligent Unmasking & Clarity Control

Reverb often muddles the mix, but not Equinox. Leveraging iZotope’s powerful intelligent unmasking technology, Equinox ensures your dry signal remains intelligible even with long tails or heavy reflections.

✨ Adaptive Unmasking:

• Automatically analyzes incoming audio

• Dynamically carves space in the reverb tail to avoid masking

• Ensures vocals, dialogue, or key instruments cut through

This feature is a game-changer for both music mixes and post-production dialogue clarity, delivering a more transparent and mixable reverb experience.

🌀 Total Sonic Control: Detailed Parameters & Customization

Equinox is a sound designer’s dream. Beyond basic decay and pre-delay, you have granular control over how reverb behaves over time and frequency.

📊 Advanced Parameter Set:

• Early Reflection Sculpting: Shape the space before the tail begins with user-definable early reflections

• Decay Shaping: Define how the tail evolves — from clean fades to rhythmic, gated, or reversed-style decays

• Reverb EQ: Full-spectrum, multi-band EQ for both early and late reflections

• Tail Suppression: Automatically reduces reverb trails when necessary (ideal for dialogue mixing)

• Width Control: Stereo width shaping for immersive placement

• Pre-delay, Size, Damping, and more

Every control is tempo-syncable, making Equinox perfect for rhythmically integrated reverbs in electronic music or score-to-picture workflows.

🧬 Node-Based FX & Infinite Creativity

Taking inspiration from modular-style effects design, Equinox introduces node-based visual editing, allowing you to intuitively map out how reflections, EQ, diffusion, and decay evolve across time and space.

🌈 Creative Tools Inside:

• Infinite Reverb / Freeze Mode: Great for ambient drones, swells, or experimental textures

• Built-in Chorus, Filter, and Distortion: Add movement and flavor to your reverb tails

• Modulation Controls: Create shimmer, warble, or lush pads using rate and depth parameters

This enables sound design workflows directly within your reverb—there is no need to stack additional effects. You can craft signature, never-heard-before ambiences or replicate famous sonic spaces with full fidelity.

🎛 1,250+ Presets & Sound Design Starting Points

Equinox comes loaded with over 1,250 expertly curated presets, categorized by:

• Instrument Type (Vocals, Guitars, Keys, Drums, etc.)

• Genre (Cinematic, Rock, Electronic, Ambient, etc.)

• Space Type (Halls, Rooms, Plates, Churches, Abstract, etc.)

• Use Case (Dialogue, Atmos Mixing, Underscore, etc.)

The intelligent browser lets you quickly tag and search presets, and even find similar-sounding alternatives using AI-powered suggestion tools. Whether you’re scoring a film or mixing a pop ballad, Equinox delivers fast, inspiring results.

🪩 Immersive Audio Support: From Stereo to Dolby Atmos

Whether working in stereo, 5.1, 7.1.4, or 7.1.6, Equinox natively supports immersive formats. You can place reflections and reverb tails spatially around the listener, ideal for:

• Dolby Atmos music production

• Surround film and TV mixing

• VR & game audio design

• Installations and spatial experiences

No additional plugins or routing tricks required—Equinox is built from the ground up for immersive environments.

🧩 Integration & Compatibility

• Formats: AAX, VST3 (64-bit only)

• OS Support: macOS and Windows

• DAW Compatibility: Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Reaper, Studio One, and more

• MIDI Learn for real-time parameter control

• Preset system supports custom and user-created banks

🎬 Perfect For:

• Film & Game Composers needing immersive reverb with total control

• Mix Engineers looking for clarity and polish without compromise

• Electronic Producers who want modulated, experimental space textures

• Sound Designers building surreal ambiences, drones, and FX tails

• Vocal Producers crafting rich, ducked reverbs that sit beautifully in a mix

• Post-Production Audio Pros creating cinematic realism with spatial awareness