Voxengo Elephant
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Friendly greetings Aleksey!
I wanted to thank you directly for Voxengo Elephant. Every time a new limiter comes out on the market, I test it thoroughly versus Elephant, but ALL contenders to date (over the last four years) have been crushed at Elephant's massive feet. Despite compelling marketing copy, those competitors simply can't handle the extreme dynamics and transients I throw at Elephant, which rides the peaks a lot more transparently. The TRANS TIME knob is magic — if I hear unwanted distortion in a saturated track rich with ambience, I simply turn it up and the ugliness is gone. I can retain a good balance between punch and clarity, something which is unintuitively difficult in "other limiters".
You should know that I used Elephant on my album that won the Spectrasonics-Bob Moog Foundation's OMG-1 Grand Prize: http://www.spectrasonics.net/contest/winners.php From phat breakbeats to eloquent arpeggiators, Elephant is versatile and able to treat it all. Elephant's high-quality at low-latency makes it possible to use in a "realtime mastering chain", which is essential to my workflow and makes it easy to hear the near-final result instantly. Plus, auto-oversampling works like a charm.
What's more, EVERYONE out there should know how mature and stable Elephant is. It's almost a decade old, wow! Long ago, I grew irritated with lesser limiters that didn't keep backward compatibility modes in mind, since that inconsistency wastes time. But I'm glad that although Elephant continues to be in active development, it has really settled into a beautiful place in my creation process.
On top of all this, Elephant's price continues to provide the best bang-for-buck. What incredible value for a truly versatile tool!
Keep being creative — you've truly made it easier for musicians like me to make our music shine.
Torley Wong (Whidbey Island, Washington)This last week, I upgraded one of my computers from Windows XP to Win7. I did this by completely reformatting my partition, and installing everything from scratch.
When it came time to install and authorize all my Voxengo plugs, I was delighted to find something no regular user encounters on a day to day basis - that there is a means to authorize all my licensed Voxengos in a single action. That is some very clever and very considerate programming, and greatly appreciated by someone faced with the tedious task of installing and authorizing dozens of programs and plugins.
Voxengo plugins are an integral part of my working process now, and just about everything I turn out has been touched in one way or another by your work. Thanks very much for the great sound, and the little touches that are the product of great programming.
Frank Lockwood