DLAY
Design any delay. Fast.
One canvas. 64 taps. Drag to design, sweep to morph, flip the feedback path through seven character modes. Whether you need a quarter-note slap or a granular wash, DLAY keeps up.
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Pick a source, audition a preset, twist the dry/wet.
Built For
Vocal Producers
Slapback, plate throws, doublers, dub vocals, ping-pong, vocal halo, detuned choir, vowel slap
Beatmakers
Snare throws, dub sirens, hat shuffle, trap throws, helicopter toms, tresillo, clave
Sound Designers
Self-oscillation, broken tape, glitch stutter, sci-fi warps, granular drift, reverse echoes
Ambient & Post-Rock
Post-rock wash, shimmer bloom, cathedral, glacier, underwater, ether, frozen field
Built for Music. Not Menus.
Visible echoes, character that travels, rhythms that move
Visible echoes, hand-shaped
Your Delay Is a Canvas.
- •Drag taps anywhere on a single timeline — no separate menus, no knob-per-tap deep dives
- •Switch view modes to see and edit volume, pan, pitch, formant, filter, or saturation across every tap at once
- •Rubber-band select a group, drag them as one. Copy a tap's vibe and paste it onto another. Right-click to mute. Pencil-mode for freehand shaping
- •Zoom into any moment of your delay timeline like you'd zoom into a clip in your DAW
Cascades you can hear
Sweep Everything With One Knob.
- •Gain Ripple drops volumes off across the chain — instant decay shapes from gentle fade to sharp tail
- •Filter Ripple opens or closes the high-pass progressively, so each repeat cleans up a little more than the last
- Pan Ripple spreads alternating taps left and right — combine with Ping Pong for groove-locked stereo throws
DLAY in Real Use
A full session with DLAY, by DATABROTH
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“What a great delay. Powerful, intuitive interface, and easy to get great results!”
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“Calling it a DLAY is doing it a bit of an understatement. I guess Time Oriented Manipulation Environment was a bit too long ... Excellent piece of kit. I shall be playing with it for some Time to co...”
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“This is literally my dream delay. It let's you customize EVERYTHING in the delay signal. Intuitive and sounds fantastic. My new go to delay plugin.”
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Free vs Full
DLAY Lite
Free forever
- See your echoes as taps on a grid
- MIX + WASH controls
- 12 presets
- VST3, AU
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Works in all major DAWs
DLAY
$34.99, one time
- Everything in Lite, plus:
- Up to 64 taps
- Per-tap pan, pitch, vowel, tone, saturation, reverse
Version History
Gear Panels On Your Knobs
Most knobs now have a gear icon. Click it for a panel of extra controls that used to be fixed — the main knob keeps working while it's open. DUCK gets threshold, attack and release (and now responds at normal levels, not just loud signals). WOBBLE and DRIFT get rate and depth. HUMANIZE gets range and rate. SMEAR gets size and character. PING PONG opens up stereo width — grouping, a Haas width offset, and a mono-bass option to keep the low end centred. RIPPLE gets per-knob curve and scatter to shape and randomize the cascade.
Full DAW Automation
Every tap is now automatable and hardware-mappable — volume, timing, pan, pitch, tone, and more — and learnable on NKS hardware (Komplete Kontrol, Maschine). The visual bar editor stays the main way to shape taps; this adds hands-on and recorded control on top.
Groove On The Echoes
Sync Feedback swings the delay's repeats in time with your shuffle instead of landing straight — built for house, garage, and shuffled styles. An indicator by the FEEDBACK knob shows when it's on, and the new ODD / EVEN switch sets how the swing falls: classic swung bounce, or tighter on-grid.
Lighter On CPU
DLAY runs leaner across the board (especially on Linux). A new FORM quality setting trades the formant/pitch effect — the heaviest in the plugin — against CPU: Balanced (default, the original sound), Efficient (lighter, for more taps on slower machines), or High (the cleanest result). Formant now also works with unlinked left/right delays.
Smaller Touches
Delete a tap from its right-click menu. The editor shows your dry input alongside the delay. Scroll the TAPS control to add or remove one tap at a time. Older presets load more reliably. Cleaner Save Preset window, tidier Settings panel, and a refreshed layout with clearer section titles and icons.
Included
- VST3, AU, CLAP
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- 168 factory presets across 14 categories
- License key activation
- Lifetime free updates
- Direct developer support
System Requirements
Questions
How many taps can I run?
Up to 64 taps per channel. Stereo-linked: 64 taps mirrored across L+R. Unlinked: 64 left + 64 right, fully independent — 128 total.
Does it sync to my DAW tempo?
Yes. SYNC mode locks tap times to note divisions (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64) with EVEN, DOT, or TRIP modes. SYNC OFF gives you free milliseconds (10 ms – 5 sec).
What's the difference between this and a normal delay?
Even feature-rich multi-tap delays usually stop at level and pan per tap. DLAY gives you 64 taps on a single canvas with per-tap pitch, formant, filter, saturation, pan, and reverse — plus six ripple knobs that cascade values across every tap with one twist.
How do I install?
Download, drag to your plugins folder, enter your license key on first open. Done.
Is there a trial?
No trial, but the 14-day money-back guarantee means you can try risk-free.
CPU heavy?
Active taps with pitch/formant use Signalsmith Stretch — that's the heaviest path. Clean taps are extremely light. Run as many as your project needs and bounce when it gets crowded.
Commercial use?
Yes. Use in any project. Keep 100% of your royalties.
“What a great delay. Powerful, intuitive interface, and easy to get great results!”
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