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Voxengo Releases Elephant 4 Mastering Limiter

Voxengo's Elephant 4 mastering limiter has been released, promising "transparent" limiting and loudness maximization.

Version 4 of Elephant has been released for Windows and Mac OS X, and is available in AU, VST and VST3 plug-in formats, including native 64-bit support. According to Voxengo, "the most remarkable feature of this signal limiter is its sonic transparency, " with limiting and loudness maximization that doesn’t include “'pumping’ sonic artifacts.”

The following new features have been added to Elephant 4 (which is backwards compatible) since the release of version 3.0:

  • Added a new “EL-4” limiter mode, with less harmonic coloration.
  • Added a new “Dynamic Release Control” limiter stage.
  • Added a new “Timing” limiter mode parameter.
  • Added a new “Release to Attack Ratio” limiter mode parameter.
  • Added a new “Release Shape” limiter mode parameter.
  • Added input level meter together with the threshold mark.
  • Implemented the “Eval” limiter’s evaluation mode.
  • Added the “Trans View” transient visualization.
  • Made the “In Gain” and “Out Gain” knob ranges more practical.
  • Magnified the “Out Gain” knob’s scale around 0 dB.
  • Made changes to the “Trans Time” parameter stutter-free.
  • The output statistics are now automatically reset if any parameter that influences the output statistics was changed.
  • Added “EL-4”, “COMPACT” and “EXPANDED” factory limiter modes.

Elephants feature set now includes:

  • Transparent signal limiting action
  • 9 predefined limiter modes
  • Limiter mode editor
  • Optional release stage
  • Noise-shaped bit-depth converter
  • DC offset removal filter
  • Waveform graph view
  • Stereo and multi-channel processing
  • Internal channel routing
  • Channel grouping
  • Up to 8x linear-phase oversampling
  • 64-bit floating point processing
  • Preset manager
  • Undo/redo history
  • A/B comparisons
  • Contextual hint messages
  • All sample rates support
  • 22 ms compensated processing latency

Elephant is being offered for two weeks at an introductory price of $99.95, after which the price will rise to $119.95. Upgrades from previous versions of Elephant are $49.95 for those who purchased it more than 180 days ago: otherwise the upgrade is free during the grace period.  Get more information and download a demo version of Elephant from the Voxengo web site:http://www.voxengo.com/product/elephant/.

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