FRCTL Audio has updated DLAY to v1.3.0, a free update to its multi-tap delay.
DLAY shows every echo as a line on a timeline that can be dragged, shaped and grouped, up to 64 of them, each with its own volume, timing, pan, pitch and tone. Until now that pattern stood still once it was drawn. 1.3.0 makes it move.
The update adds a MOD band below the controls with three sources: two LFOs and an envelope follower on the input signal. Dragging a source’s waveform onto a knob assigns it. An arc appears around the knob showing how far it will travel, the arc’s handle sets the depth, and dragging the handle past the knob reverses the direction. A right-click on the arc offers a two-sided sweep or removes the route. Each LFO offers sine, triangle, square, saw up, saw down, sample-and-hold and random shapes, runs free in Hz or synced to note divisions, and can retrigger to the song position so a bounce plays back the same every time. The envelope follower has attack, release and sensitivity, so a drum hit can open the filter or a vocal phrase can push the feedback.
Twenty-two controls accept a route, from MIX and FEEDBACK to the filters, all six RIPPLE depths, and two that a delay does not usually expose: the tap count and the delay rate itself. An LFO on RATE bends the whole pattern, stepping cleanly through note divisions when synced and gliding like tape when free.
Every RIPPLE gear panel gains a MOTION knob. Above zero, the ripple pattern travels through the tap sequence over time: a gain ripple becomes a tremolo rolling through the echoes, a pan ripple an auto-pan sweep, a filter ripple a moving spectral wave. At zero the ripple stays static, as before.
1.3.0 also answers a request from a user: a kill switch for long tails. With the transport already stopped, pressing STOP once more empties the delay memory on the spot. Every repeat cuts out, the waveform blanks, and the next run starts clean, with the settings left exactly where they were. Ableton Live and FL Studio send this on the second STOP click; Logic sends it on the AU Reset.
The preset controls now sit in one strip, and A/B is a single button: a click switches banks, a right-click copies the current bank over the other or swaps the two. Preset, licence and settings files now live in one standard folder per platform, with existing files found automatically. Existing projects sound exactly the same as before until a route is added.
Pricing & Availability
DLAY costs $34.99; the 1.3.0 update is free for existing owners. It can be tried free for 14 days, activates once, and needs no subscription. A free version, DLAY Lite, is also available. DLAY runs as VST3, AU and CLAP on Windows, macOS and Linux.
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