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 limiting action
• 8 limiter modes
• 7 speeds for various styles of music
• Gain reduction VU meters
• Noise-shaped bit-depth converter
• RMS and peak RMS output counters
• Automatic attack and release
• DC removal filter
• Up to 4x oversampling
• "A-to-B" comparisons
• Factory presets
• Mono-to-Stereo, Stereo-to-Stereo processing
• Sample rates up to 96 kHz
• '64-bit internal precision

Changes in v4.2

• Implemented color scheme editor with load and save functions.
• Added "Brown" and "White" color schemes.
• Redesigned the infrastructure controls.
• Made internal channel names start at "C" to reduce confusion with the A/B comparison buttons.
• Reduced plugin file size considerably for faster loading.
• Reduced the overall memory consumption.
• Fixed the "out/in" meter which was not taking the "Out Gain" into account.

Changes in v4.1

• enhancedthe "EL-4" algorithm reducing transient distortion and "boxiness": the sound is more biting less woofing now.
• Enhanced oversampling filters reducing chances of overshoots.
• "EL-4 BRITE" factory limiter mode.
• Extended the input gain range to +24 dB.
• Extended the output gain range to -15 dB.
• Made the "Eval" switch to not affect the output statistics.
• Extended the "Release Shape" range to 2, offers an extreme punch and "hardness", via an idealized S-curve release shape.
• Output signal level will never exceed 1 dB over the Out Gain setting.

Changes in v4

• 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.

Changes in v3.11

• Added "dBFS.30" and "dBFS.15" metering options.
• Bugfix for "Bypass" switch, now bypasses all processing stages completely, including the dithering stage.
• Bugfix for minor spectral error when switching oversampling from 8X to 4X or from 4X to 2X.
• Added VST3 support.

Changes in v3.10

• Bugfix for DC filter issue with oversampling switch fixed.
• Bugfix for Occasional crashes with oversampling enabled fixed.

Changes in v3.9

• The "Min Infrastructure" user interface display mode added.
• The "Flat Level Meters" level meter display mode added.
• Version change history information window added.
• The "Do Not Show Latency Changes" global switch added.
• Native 64-bit AudioUnit and VST support on Mac OS X added.

New in v3.6

• Real-time gain reduction and waveform graphs implemented.
• Mid/side and side-chain routing presets now appear dimmed to reduce confusion.
• Parameter automation on AU Mac OS X now shows real parameter values.
• Preset "update" function implemented in the preset manager.
• The "VST Function Sync" global switch was added that fixes crashes in some hosts (i.e. Tracktion).
• "Density mode" implemented in level meters.
• Occasional extreme CPU overloads eliminated at the expense of average increased CPU load.
• "Pure+3" output metering mode's peak indicator is now 3 dB lower.
• "Pure" and "Pure+3" metering modes are now known as "dBFS" and "dBFS+3" modes, respectively.
• The "No Multi-Channel Operation" global switch was added that fixes incompatibility with some non-VST2.3 compliant VST hosts.
• DC filter parameters are now specified for all channel groups to avoid phasing problems.
• The "Show All Channel Meters" routing switch added.
• Statistics "reset" function now resets statistics of all channels correctly.
• A minor issue fixed in the dithering stage.