Meet iZotope Photon: AI Stem Separation & Noise Reduction

iZotope Photon is the first research collaboration between iZotope and Boris FX! 

Photon is a standalone app and ARA plugin for AI stem separation and audio cleanup. It’s powered by 12 custom-trained machine learning models that run right on your GPU. That means there are no uploads, no usage cutoffs, and no waiting in a queue. Split stems, clear out noise, even out levels, and pull apart conversations with up to six people talking. When you need to get in, get it done, and get out, Photon’s got you. Buy Now

✨ Boris FX customers: You get FREE access to iZotope Photon (formerly CrumplePop SoundApp) with an active CrumplePop, Boris FX Suite, or Vegas Pro Ultimate subscription, or if you're on a CrumplePop upgrade & support plan. Download the new installer from the Boris FX Hub.

✨ iZotope customers: If you already use RX, Photon is designed to sit right alongside it. Think paint roller and paintbrushes: grab Photon when you want to cover a lot of ground quickly, and RX when you need precise detail work. Each has its own models, so use whichever fits the job in front of you, or both. 

If you own any paid iZotope product, there’s a Photon deal waiting for you. Log in to your iZotope account to see your exclusive crossgrade price. And if you own any version of RX, you’ll get our deepest crossgrade discounts.

What's New

Voice Separator: Split any conversation into up to 6 speakers and clean up background noise. Easily readjust, remove, or export out each person talking — no session files required. 

Voice Restore: Remove distractions and add clarity in seconds. You control how much noise, wind, traffic, and echo stays in your clip. Quickly adjust levels and add final polish with the Mic Tone slider.

Music - 4 Stems Ultra: Take your stem separation to the next level. Separate music into Vocals, Bass, Drums, and Other (guitars, synths, and more) with higher quality and cleaner separation.

Drum - 5 Stems: Get full control over your entire kit with a finished song or drum bus. Instantly access Kick, Snare, Hi-hat, Toms, and Cymbals. Isolate, fine-tune, or extract.

Separate Vocals Fast

Geoff Manchester untangles a podcast interview with overlapping talking. Discover how Voice Separator makes it easy to separate up to six speakers recorded on a single track into their own stems. 

Restore Recordings in Seconds

Easily remove background noise, including traffic, room echo, and thin mic tone from dialogue using Voice Restore.

When you’re done, you can export to WAV, FLAC, or MP3, or straight back to your video file, or use the Photon ARA plugin in Pro Tools, Cubase, REAPER, and other ARA2 hosts.

Remix Any Song

Gary Hiebner demonstrates how to use Music 4 Stems Ultra to remove vocals for a cover, pull out drums for a live backing mix, fix loud bass without the multitrack, and grab stems to build a new beat.

Remix Drum Stems

Split any stereo drum mix, or isolate drums from a full song, into Kick, Snare, Hi-Hat, Toms, and Cymbals stems with Drums 5 Stems. Explore how to rebalance a drum mix and pull out a clear snare for sampling or a trigger track.  

Remove Music from Videos 

Need to turn the music down under dialogue? Take it out entirely to replace a track that’s lost its clearance? Pull a clean line of dialogue for a social clip? Or save the original sound effects for a future project?

Zak Ciotti shares why video editors will love Cinema 4 Stems. Stop digging through archive drives or reopening an edit!