IZOTOPE RX 8 £230 STANDARD, £80 ELEMENTS, £770 ADVANCED

From its first iteration RX has brought together the many components of audio repair and restoration within an innovative and attractive platform loaded with options for everyone, from musicians and engineers to podcasters and post-production houses. RX 8 is not an overhaul by any means but there are significant and noticeable changes and additions for those familiar with the suite. For those new to RX this latest version offers an established and well regarded set of tools to significantly improve and develop audio workflow.

RX is deceptively simple, packing a host of editing and visualisation tools around a fully mixable and scalable waveform/spectrographic display. This centrepiece is a powerful aid for examining and understanding audio, which combined with the tool selection below makes RX essentially the Photoshop of audio. iZotope manages to pack in all the necessary transport controls, metering, selection/cursor data and editing history