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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