Track Referencing - Ozone 8 Documentation

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Table of Contents

Overview

Track Referencing in Ozone 8 is the definitive workflow for helping you compare and contrast music in your DAW. Using the new Reference Panel in Ozone, you can import up to 10 reference tracks, visualize differences in your music with overlaid spectrum metering, and quickly A/B your music right from the audition panel.

ref panel

Importing References

The Reference panel is accessible by clicking on the “Reference” button in the lower right hand corner of the Ozone interface. You can add up to 10 Reference files in the Ozone 8 application and Ozone 8 main plug-in.

Click on the “+” button in the middle of the empty Reference panel to select a reference files to load.

Supported File Formats

Supported file formats
wav
aif/aiff
mp3
AAC
FLAC

The Reference panel supports loading up to 10 reference tracks at a time. When using the Reference panel in the Ozone application, the loaded references will be shared across different tracks (i.e. Each track in a given Ozone project will display the same 10 reference tracks in the Reference panel.)

Loop Segments

When tracks are initially loaded into the Reference panel, handles will appear overlaid on the waveform display. The handles represent boundaries of predetermined loop points. The loop boundaries are placed based on similar segments detected in the track, this uses the same machine learning technology used to generate the segmentation bar under waveforms in the Ozone application.

By default, the segments will be named with a letter. (A/B/C/D/E)

RENAME LOOP SEGMENTS

segment names

To rename a loop segment in the Reference panel:

LOOP REFERENCE PLAYBACK

To loop reference playback on a specific segment, click between the start and end handles for the segment. You can loop the whole file by clicking the “Select all” button.

REMOVE SELECTED REFERENCE

Remove the selected reference track from the reference panel by clicking the ‘x’ button when the reference track tab is selected.

Audition Reference Loops

Enable playback of the actively selected reference track by clicking the power button next to the Reference panel button.

Gain

Adjust the reference track output gain using the Gain slider.

Reference Meters

The I/O options pop-up menu above the I/O meters contains metering options for Reference tracks.

spectrum

Replace Input with Reference

When enabled, the Ozone input meter will display the reference track level.

Show Reference Spectrum

When enabled, the Reference track spectrum will be displayed in the module spectrum meters alongside the spectrum meter of your current track.

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