v1.20.1 · Windows x64 · Free & Open Source

THE FM SOUND,
ON YOUR DESK.

OmegaFM is a complete digital FM broadcast audio processor: an Optimod-style multiband chain, distortion-cancelled clipping, a full stereo generator with RDS, and BS.412 compliance — in one Windows app that runs on the hardware you already own.

MIT licensed · no accounts, no telemetry, no dongle

OMEGA FM Digital FM Broadcast Processor
DRIVE+5.0 dB
OUTPUT100 %
AGGRESSIVE · LIGHT ON AIR MPX 192 kHz
Application capture OmegaFM · live demo MP4 · loads on play

Real screen capture of the processor on air — meters, rack and MPX, nothing staged.

Signal Path

Every stage a real broadcast chain has. In order.

Audio runs a 48 kHz front chain, is oversampled 4× and finished at 192 kHz, then leaves as a fully formed multiplex. Nothing here is a plugin rack pretending — the order below is the wiring.

INPUTgain · rotator GATED AGCdrive-independent 4-BAND EQ+ psycho bass LEVELERzero-mean · coupled 4-BAND COMPsoft knee · platform 75 µs PRE-EMPHpole-limited HF LIMITERdynamic shelf LOOKAHEAD LIM2 ms CLIPPERdistortion-cancelled 15 kHz WALL+ overshoot comp STEREO GENpilot · 38 kHz · RDS MPX OUTor L/R monitor

Total processing latency: ~5.6 ms. Worst measured block time: 15 ms against a 21 ms budget, full rack loaded.

Processing

Loud without the apologies.

The parts of FM processing that separate broadcast gear from DJ gear — the filtering, the alignment, the discipline — are the parts OmegaFM is built around.

Final Section

Distortion-cancelled clipper

Cubic soft clip, then the removed low-frequency difference returns phase-aligned — bass passes unclipped. Two passes of band-limited overshoot rounding follow the 15 kHz wall. Fat, not crunchy; sibilants measured at −25 dBc IMD under torture.

Front End

AGC that never pumps

Gated on a fast 30 ms detector, frozen solid across song gaps — gain and its loudness integrator both. Rides identically whether you feed it 0 or −16 dB, and parks at the classic −10 dB of working gain reduction on a hot feed.

Top End

HF limiting that keeps sparkle

Gain applies as a dynamic 3.2 kHz shelf plus a small broadband component, so limiting reads as program tilt — not a band being ducked. Pre-emphasis carries the analog network's 20 kHz pole, the way real emphasis hardware behaves.

Composite

Full stereo generator

19 kHz pilot, 38 kHz DSB subchannel, filtered composite clipping and a proper MPX output at 192 kHz — or a de-emphasized L/R monitor while you tune. 75 dB stereo separation at 1 kHz.

Data

RDS encoder built in

EN 50067 group coding with PI, PS, PTY, RadioText and dynamic PS from a watched text file — your automation writes a line, the air chain carries it.

Trust

51 automated proofs

Every fix in OmegaFM's history became a permanent measurement: pilot protection, sibilant IMD bounds, AGC gate behavior, mono compatibility, boot safety. A release that regresses does not build.

Module Rack

Nine modules. All on at power-up.

Repair, enhancement and image governance ship enabled and calibrated. The repair modules include a TEST mode that simulates their target damage, so you can hear each one work on any source before trusting it on air.

Azimuth / Stereo Repair post_inputSub-sample L/R skew correction and polarity repair for bad transfers — bit-exact on healthy sources.ACTIVE
De-Clipper / De-Lossifier post_inputRebuilds flattened peaks and restores missing top octave from loudness-war and lossy sources.ACTIVE
Dehummer + Gate post_inputFinds mains hum during quiet moments, kills it 27 dB deep, and floors grotty noise — bass-proof by design.ACTIVE
Natural Dynamics post_inputRestores transient punch that dense mastering removed, cued on onset prominence.ACTIVE
De-Esser post_agcSplit-band sibilance control ahead of pre-emphasis, tuned for voice over music beds.ACTIVE
Sonic Maximizer post_inputProgram-dependent HF contour and phase alignment for presence without harshness.ACTIVE
Power Bass post_multibandDedicated bass clipper and punch shaping — weight that survives the final limiter.ACTIVE
Stereo Widener post_inputWidth with a mono-bass guard, staged so the image stays broadcast-safe.ACTIVE
Multipath Governor post_multibandLimits side/mid energy ratio to a ceiling — mono untouched to machine precision, multipath tamed.ACTIVE
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OmegaFM for Windows

v1.20.1 · Windows 10/11, 64-bit · compiled binaries, nothing else to install

Feed it any soundcard or virtual audio cable · outputs L/R monitor or 192 kHz MPX
MIT Licensed · Open Source

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The complete processor — DSP, stereo generator, RDS, the 51-check validation suite — is public. Audit it, fork it, build your station's sound on it.

↗  Source on GitHub