Ozone 8 Exciter
Ozone 8 Exciter is an audio unit (AU) plugin developed by iZotope that provides frequency-specific saturation and harmonic enhancement for digital audio workstations on macOS. It is a component of iZotope's broader Ozone suite of mixing and mastering tools, designed to add warmth, character, and presence to vocal, instrument and mix tracks during audio production. Like all iZotope audio plugins, it is installed and updated through iZotope's own distribution mechanism rather than as a standalone application.
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1 suggestionOzone 8 Exciter is an audio plugin component hosted within your DAW, not a standalone app. It is updated through iZotope Product Portal, iZotope's vendor-provided installer and license management tool. To check for and install any available Apple Silicon native build of this plugin, open iZotope Product Portal on your Mac, log in with your iZotope account, and check the available versions and plugins listed there — the portal will show you which builds run natively on Apple Silicon and which remain Intel-only. If Ozone 8 is still shipping only as an Intel-only Audio Unit, iZotope has released newer versions of Ozone (version 9 and later) with confirmed native Apple Silicon support. Since Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), ensuring your audio plugins have native builds well before then will keep your DAW and mixing workflow stable and performant on that release and beyond.
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