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Voxengo OVC-128 User Guide

Version 1.12
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Voxengo OVC-128 User Guide

Contents

Introduction 3
Features 3
Compatibility 3
User Interface Elements 4
Clipper 4
What’s The Deal? 4
Out 4
Credits 5
Questions and Answers 6

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Voxengo OVC-128 User Guide

Introduction

OVC-128 is a massively-oversampled soft/hard clipper effect plug-in for professional


music production applications. A common use for this plug-in is hard-clipping before
the final mastering limiter. This is an effective approach in contemporary electronic
music, when loudness is boosted using a clipper plug-in while minor excessive peaks
are absorbed by a final peak limiter that applies no additional gain itself.
Clipping the tracks via OVC-128 is practically similar to clipping using high-quality
outboard analog gear. At 44.1kHz source sample rate, the internal audio sample rate
of OVC-128 is a whopping 5.6 MHz!
A perfect combination for contemporary electronic music production is OVC-128
followed by Voxengo Elephant mastering limiter in the “EL-C” or “EL INS” mode.
This combination produces both energy and smoothness.
Note that OVC-128 is a relatively CPU-demanding effect plug-in, it requires a higher-
end processor for comfortable use. Performing 128X-oversampled clipping on a
single track is computationally similar to performing a simple clipping on 1000
tracks.

Features

 128X linear-phase oversampling


 Clipping hardness control
 Stereo processing
 64-bit floating point processing
 Preset manager
 Undo/redo history
 A/B comparisons
 Contextual hint messages
 All sample rates support
 38 ms compensated processing latency

Compatibility
This audio plug-in can be loaded into any audio host application that conforms to the
AAX, AudioUnit, VST, or VST3 plug-in specification.
This plug-in is compatible with Windows (32- and 64-bit Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
and later versions, if not announced otherwise) and macOS (10.11 and later versions,
if not announced otherwise, 64-bit Intel and Apple Silicon processor-based)
computers (2.5 GHz dual-core or faster processor with at least 4 GB of system RAM
required). A separate binary distribution file is available for each target computer
platform and audio plug-in specification.

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Voxengo OVC-128 User Guide

User Interface Elements

Note: All Voxengo plug-ins feature a highly consistent user interface. Most interface
elements (buttons, labels) located at the top of the user interface are the same in all
Voxengo plug-ins. For an in-depth description of these and other standard features,
and user interface elements, please refer to the “Voxengo Primary User Guide”.

Clipper
The “Gain” parameter increases signal’s gain, in decibel. Clipping occurs at 0 dBFS
level; this parameter pushes input signal into clipping. Drag with the right-mouse-
button to change the “Out Gain” in an inversely-linked mode. The “R” switch enables
residue signal monitoring: a difference between the clipped and the original sound.
The “Hardness” parameter selects the hardness of clipping: soft-clipping at 0, hard-
clipping at 1. This parameter cross-fades between the “tanh” soft-clipping function
and the hard-clipping function.
This panel also features the gain reduction meter which displays the reached gain
reduction level in decibel. This level correlates to the distortion amount in the output
signal. The release time of the meter can be adjusted in the Settings window.
The “OVC” is an acronym for “OVersampled Clipper”.

What’s The Deal?


Here you can see 12 dB hard-clipping applied over 1 kHz sine-wave at 44.1kHz
sample rate. As you can see, OVC-128 clipping produces almost no aliasing in
comparison to simple clipping.

OVC-128 clipping of 1 kHz sine-wave Simple clipping of 1 kHz sine-wave

Out
This panel displays output level meter with the overload (“OL”) indicator. Note that
overload mainly indicates the fact that the clipping (saturation) point was slightly
over-reached due to some amount of high-frequency oscillations that produce
overshoots over the 0 dBFS level. The actual clipping point is at 0 dBFS.
The “Out Gain” controls the overall output level of the plug-in, specified in decibel.
Drag with the right-mouse-button to change the “Gain” in an inversely-linked mode.

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Credits

DSP algorithms, internal signal routing code, user interface layout by Aleksey Vaneev.
Graphics user interface code by Vladimir Stolypko. Graphics elements by Vladimir
Stolypko and Scott Kane.
This plug-in is implemented in multi-platform C++ code form and uses “zlib”
compression library (written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler), “LZ4”
compression library by Yann Collet, “base64” code by Jouni Malinen, FFT algorithm
by Takuya Ooura, filter design equations by Magnus Jonsson and Robert Bristow-
Johnson, VST plug-in technology by Steinberg, AudioUnit plug-in SDK by Apple,
Inc., AAX plug-in SDK by Avid Technology, Inc., Intel IPP and run-time library by
Intel Corporation (used under the corresponding licenses granted by these parties).
Voxengo OVC-128 Copyright © 2019-2023 Aleksey Vaneev.
VST is a trademark and software of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.

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Questions and Answers

Q. Is it possible to specify the clipping ceiling arbitrarily instead of using


the default 0 dBFS so that the output level stays unchanged?
A. The same result can be achieved by adjusting the “Gain” knob with the right
mouse button; this enables the inversely-linked change of the “Out Gain” knob.

Q. Are there any plans to add flexibility to OVC-128 as to being able to


choose less than 128X mode?
A. OVC-128 uses a fixed oversampling by design, it is not adjustable. Beside that,
running it at less than 32X oversampling will make it lose all sonic benefits.

Happy Mixing and Mastering!

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