Question about Oversampling with Sonimus plugs

Some of them have built in oversampling you can select. Others might go nuts like old Waves plugs if you oversample them enough.

If you want cleaner sound from one without oversampling, just use plugins that do. UAD and Softube channel strips have built in 4x oversampling. The newer Softube stuff post UAD often has more for certain functions and Klanghelm SDDR2 Desk in HQ+ and the LTL silver bullet plug are cool on busses. I even like vintage warmer tweaked in multi band mode on busses.

I'm talking about the Console emus.

Well, I'm gonna try it for sure lol. Anyway - do I only need to turn on oversampling on the master channel? Or should I try and use like 2x OS on every channel? If there's a plugin at the end of the chain with oversampling, do I still need to instantiate it in the Console plug? If there's not much top end info or no distortion, do I need to use OS? I do swear I notice a difference when using OS on bass with Level or Unfairchild.

You don’t have to do anything you cannot hear. Aliasing is bad but it itself can often be inaudible when soloed other than affecting the depth in the stereo image.

These plugins aren’t well thought out. You shouldn’t even have to make this choice yourself. They should come oversampled enough for each part of it to minimize aliasing like uad2 or current softube or have a button to select “hq” or “insane” which you should do unless you have an ancient Mac on life support. Or be written to not have that many harmonics that can alias like the old waves renaissance compressor.

The circuit modeled compresors are producing infinite harmonics of infinite harmonics because they don’t really work in digital unless you want to run at insane sample rates into the mhz and melt CPUs. Ideal rectifier in the side chain is an absolute value function or a much smoother equivalent with less hard breaks like square root of x^2. Infinite harmonics no matter what. A true hard knee threshold for peak detection is nothing but a hard clipper. Infinite harmonics of infinite harmonics need theoretically infinite bandwidth or enough to accommodate it. Then add that you need to reconstruct the signal first to get the true peaks so oversampling and filtering is a must. Then vintage are all feedback so they need output = input * the gain reduction of the output. This is not instant in digital but has a one sample delay in digital so you need an iterative solver to arrive at an approximate enough solution to not misfire or mass oversampling to reduce the misfire in time. Compressors work very fast even if their gain reduction is slowed down by attack.

Then they do this and cram models of the circuit and parts in until the cpu melts. Sometimes they don’t even have this at all like the Waves CLA compressors, UAD1, or Softube’s og CL1b model. Cytomic the Glue only circuit models the side chain.

Meanwhile there have been smooth, pure digital compressors for over 25 years (Renaisssnce Compressor and Oxford Dynamics) the Weiss DS1 is ancient works as well as most analog ones. Now there are a ton of great compressors like the TDR ones, PSP Impressor, Powair, etc and you can add any distortion you like separately.