- Publisher: iZotope
- Product: Insight Pro
- Release: V.R
- Version: 2.6.0
- Format: VST2/VST3/AAX
- Requirements: Windows 10 or higher
Ensure your audio is heard with absolute clarity—Insight 2 is the intelligent metering solution trusted by industry professionals to deliver detailed, customizable feedback across every stage of mixing and mastering. Whether you’re working in stereo, surround, or Atmos, Insight 2 gives you the tools to analyze your sound, diagnose issues, and finalize your mix with confidence.
A Clearer View of Your Mix
Insight 2 brings visibility, accuracy, and control to your workflow. With a completely redesigned user interface and a suite of specialized meters, this plug-in adapts to your session and helps you meet the demands of any production format—from podcasts to film soundtracks.
With Insight 2, you can:
- Maintain loudness compliance with international broadcast standards
- Ensure dialogue is intelligible and clear
- Visualize frequency balance and stereo imaging in real time
- Monitor levels across stereo to 7.1.2 surround setups
- Customize your metering layout for any DAW or screen configuration
Feature Overview
All-New User Interface
Insight 2 features a sleek, modern, and fully resizable UI, designed to fit effortlessly into any studio setup. Each module can be rearranged, resized, or hidden entirely—giving you complete control over your metering environment.
- Drag-and-drop meter modules
- Fully scalable plug-in window
- Clean layout for faster decisions
Loudness Meter
Ensure your mix is ready for broadcast, streaming platforms, and client delivery with support for BS.1770 standards.
- Tracks Momentary, Short-term, Integrated loudness
- Displays Loudness Range (LU) for dynamic content
- Ideal for mastering and post workflows with strict compliance targets
Levels Meter
Measure your audio levels with precision using standard peak/RMS formats or adopt the K-weighted metering system for dynamic preservation.
- Peak, RMS, and True Peak metering
- Preserve musical dynamics with K-system calibration
Spectrogram
Insight 2’s real-time spectrogram delivers a 3D map of your mix’s frequency content, helping you identify buildup, masking, and balance issues across the spectrum.
- High-resolution display
- Real-time feedback
- Perfect for mastering, restoration, and tonal shaping
Sound Field Module
Get a full picture of your mix’s stereo or surround image. Quickly diagnose phase, width, and correlation issues before they affect your final bounce.
- Mono compatibility check
- Surround imaging visualization
- Critical for immersive audio formats like Atmos
Intelligibility Meter
One of Insight 2’s most powerful features: the Intelligibility Meter works in tandem with the included Relay plug-in to ensure that dialogue and vocals sit cleanly in the mix—especially useful in film, television, and podcasting.
- Analyzes dialogue level vs. background content
- Provides actionable clarity recommendations
- Helps ensure speech remains understandable in complex mixes
Relay Plug-in Included
Relay is a lightweight utility plug-in included with Insight 2 that facilitates inter-plug-in communication across your session. It also provides basic track processing tools.
- Communicates with Insight 2 for dialogue analysis
- Offers high-pass filtering, phase inversion, stereo width, panning, and delay
- Simple insert for any dialogue or instrument track
Broadcast-Ready. Client-Ready. Future-Ready.
Whether you’re delivering to Netflix, YouTube, FM radio, or theatrical film, Insight 2 ensures your work is compliant, intelligible, and technically sound.
- Built-in presets for popular broadcast and streaming standards
- Multi-format metering for stereo, 5.1, 7.1, and 7.1.2 Atmos workflows
- Perfect for mastering engineers, film mixers, and streaming content creators
System Requirements
Operating Systems:
- Mac: macOS Monterey (12.7.2), Ventura (13.6.3), Sonoma (14.3.1), Sequoia (15)
- Native support for Intel and Apple silicon Macs (via Rosetta or native)
- Windows: Windows 10, Windows 11
Plug-in Formats:
- AAX, AU, VST3, VST2*
* VST2 supported only in DAWs opened via Rosetta on Apple silicon Macs
Supported Hosts:
- Logic Pro 10.8
- Pro Tools 2022–2023
- Ableton Live 11
- Cubase 13
- Nuendo 12
- Studio One 6
- Reaper 7
- FL Studio 21
- Adobe Audition CC 2023
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2023
- DaVinci Resolve 18.5
Who Uses Insight 2?
- Music Producers: Mix and master with clarity and dynamic precision
- Post Engineers: Ensure compliance and intelligibility across broadcast specs
- Podcasters & Editors: Keep speech clean, loud, and well-balanced
- Mastering Engineers: Catch frequency and level issues before final delivery
- Sound Designers: Analyze spatial spread and frequency balance in real-time
Download Insight 2 – Free
Insight 2 is available as a free download and included with select iZotope bundles. Whether you’re refining dialogue for a feature film or finalizing your latest track, Insight 2 helps you finish with clarity, confidence, and control.
Download Insight 2 Now — Elevate your sound. Eliminate uncertainty.
