Voxengo releases Elephant v3.0

Voxengo has announced the release of version 3 of its mastering limiter - Elephant. Version 3.0 features many enhancements over the previous version, including multi-platform support, multi-channel operation, a wider selection of limiter modes, preset manager, and more.

Changes since version 2.x:

• Multi-channel support.
• Multi-platform support.
• EL UNI algorithm.
• Knee control (in EL UNI algorithm).
• Better DC offset filters.
• More dithering options.
• Undo/redo.
• Routing matrix.
• Preset manager.
• User interface coloration.
• User interface re-scaling.
• Channel grouping.
• Plug-in instance naming.
• Selectable oversampling level.
• Bypass switch.
• Better metering.

Elephant is a transparent mastering limiter plug-in for professional music production applications - it provides sound limiting and loudness maximization without any audible "pumping" effects.

Elephant features a variety of limiter modes that can be deeply customized, and a comprehensive set of level metering tools. It can be used for mixing and mastering of both stereo and multi-channel music and sound material, at any standard sample rate.

Elephant, also featuring a DC offset filter, and a high-quality bit-depth converter with optional noise-shaping, allows you to finish your music and audio productions with a spark.

Features:

• Transparent signal limiting action.
• 10 predefined limiter modes.
• Limiter mode editor.
• Optional release stage.
• Noise-shaped bit-depth converter.
• DC offset removal filter.
• 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.

Pricing & Availability

Voxengo Elephant can be loaded into any audio host application that conforms to the VST or Audio Unit plug-in specification. It is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit) and Mac OS X 10.4.11 and above (Intel and PowerPC) computers (2 GHz dual-core or faster processor with at least 1 GB of system RAM recommended). A separate binary distribution file is available for each target computer platform for each plug-in format.

A one-month introductory price of $69.95 is now effective, which is 20% off the regular price of $89.95. Upgrading from the previous version costs $44.95 if the previous version was purchased earlier than 90 days from now: otherwise the upgrade is free during this grace period. A demo version of Elephant can be downloaded at the Voxengo web site.