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Octaver OC-D2

Octave Divider Plugin by Chris Hooker
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Octaver OC-D2 has an average user rating of 3.50 from 2 reviews

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Octaver OC-D2

Reviewed By GotMetalBoy [all]
May 18th, 2019
Version reviewed: 1.4 on Windows

I've used the OC-D2 with REAPER and it has worked great. I use the mono version of the plugin and set the track in REAPER to mono. It can really thicken up single notes or get square wave synth sounds. It tracks single notes very well.

Any issues I've had, Chris, the developer of the plugin, either steered me in the right direction or made updates to the plugin very quickly. Chris is very knowledgeable and is able to speak in very technical terms or layman terms, so anyone can get the "lowdown" for what all the parameters do. The manual is also very helpful and explains where to install the plugin, so any DAW should be able to find it.

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newkulturstudios
newkulturstudios
15 October 2017 at 5:55pm

Hello Carmelious,
Thanks for your interest. The reason you are encountering an issue with wet and dry signals being separated by channel is that the OC-D2 is a mono-channel plug-in. You should see any mono plug-ins operate the same way in your host program.
Despite my mention of this in the plug-in's description on this site and my own website, I have encountered a few people over the years that have still reported this as a "bug". Therefor I have now uploaded a dual-channel-interfaced version of the plug-in on the download file. Please uninstall the plug-in on your computer, download this new installer, and use the dual channel version instead. Your issue will be solved.

I am a bit confused when you say that the OC-D2 "will not bring down octave", but then go on to say that the "added octaves will be on left". Could you please expand on what you mean? Is it only sometimes generating the lower octave signal?

With regards to the last of your comments (single note operation), the OC-D2, just like the octave divider pedals that it is based off of, is a signal generator that bases its pitch from the incoming signal's fundamental frequency, which is determined through low-pass filtering and zero-crossing detection. It is for this reason that stereo and polyphonic material will not be detected accurately, and therefor not supported by this plug-in. It is intended for use on only 1 monophonic (single notes, no chords) instrument per instance. It is not intended, nor will it work accurately, for use with a stereo mix of instruments. When used with such intended source material, the user-adjustable low-pass filter should be sufficient to accurately detect pitch as well as or better than the hardware pedals the OC-D2 is based off of.

If you have any additional concerns or issues, please feel free to contact me directly (via the email address I have provided in the Read Me file) prior to posting on this site as a bug. I would be happy to assist!

-Chris Hooker.

Turello
Turello
6 May 2019 at 6:49pm

Please, get the latency to 0 ms... :-).

newkulturstudios
newkulturstudios
10 May 2019 at 1:34am

Hi Turello, thanks for your comment.

Short answer: Wish granted.

Long answer:
I had programmed a delay into the plug-in so that the dry signal would be in phase-alignment with the key signal and unfiltered Octave signals. (The key is phase-shifted by going through the input filter.) The OC-D2's delay is reported to host programs for compensation, so on playback the delay is corrected, but when monitoring on the input, it could not be avoided.

However, since the original analog octave-divider pedals exhibited phase-shifting anyway, plus any filtering on the Octaves on the OC-D2 adds additional phase-shifting, and input monitoring / hearing the effect while recording can be quite difficult with the delay, I think it's more important to have zero-latency... so I've taken out this delay and provided a Zero-Latency update.

Incidentally, this allowed me to remove the discrete steps on the Input LPF (on each of which, phase-shift delay times were calculated and compensated for), and I reverted the knob to a continuous control.

If the user wants phase-alignment on mixdown, they can use the OC-D2 on a duplicate track (at full wet), (optionally bounce/freeze the effect), then manually shift the clip to align with the original track, and blend to taste.

C.Ray
C.Ray
22 May 2019 at 7:13pm

Doesn't Flowstone allow you to make VST 's 64 compatible? Why not take advantages of that in 2019-2020?

newkulturstudios
newkulturstudios
23 May 2019 at 12:30am

Currently, Flowstone only supports 32-bit. The next version, which will support 64-bit, is in Beta-mode now.
When that is released as a final commercial version (all bugs worked out), I will update the OC-D2 ASAP.

Keytay
Keytay
6 July 2020 at 5:42am

Hi Chris,

Is there a way to get a notification when you release the 64-bit version? A forum post I could follow perhaps.

This looks awesome, such a pity the 32-bit versions doesn't show up in Ableton. Looking forward to the release.

Thanks for sharing.

csun338
csun338
30 December 2022 at 11:01pm

Is this plugin able to mimic the Poly mode on OC3? Please add that function if possible because it's a crucial function for playing big chords.

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