The 'Advanced' - 'Global' section of the manual is missing the setting for Oversampling.

Can anyone give a description of this please?

V2.5 , err I'm a bit confused about which plugin are you talking about ?

oops... sorry!
= Kubik

Thanks for the clarification.

Oversampling is when you run the oscillators at a higher rate then the normal sample rate. 2x means they are run at twice the rate, and so on.

This is a good thing because it removes some of the noise (aliasing as it's know) in high pitched sound, which is created by the limits imposed by the sample rate.

So, using over-sampling to create higher sample rates reduces this noise because the noised imposed by the sample rate limit, are now much high in frequency.

This is only a very short explanation, there is a lot more information out there about anti-aliasing, nyquist frequency etc.

So in a nutshell, higher aliasing means better sounding sounds but uses more CPU.

Hopefully this has helped.

Cheers

Jon

No it is exactly opposite. Higher sampling rate means less aliasing thus better sound. Aliasing is noise. You don't want it.

Higher aliasing = bad sound,worse sound (so developers use oversampling to avoid it)
Less aliasing = better sound (so..better sound)

Err yes that is what I meant, (it's only 9.25 here in the morning )