Adam Monroe Music has released Adam Monroe’s Delay, a free effect plugin for Windows and Mac.
The plugin allows the user to simulate a number of delay effects including simple slapback, bubbly and experimental delays.
A delay VST AU or AAX plugin effect isn’t that difficult to program – delay effects are relatively simple algorithms to implement. The interesting part is how to implement and manipulate simple concepts to produce interesting results.
Presets include short delay times, which create slapback and doubling effects, to longer delays, and filtered delays that begin to approach the sound of reverb. Some of the delay presets can be used to “thicken” up a signal, as they approach chorus times without pitch-shifting
The minimum and maximum delay time ranges from 0 to 1 second, and the feedback ranges from 0 to infinite. The plugin supports sample rates from 44.1 to 192 kHz and does this by detecting the current sample rate and utilizing appropriate buffer lengths (as opposed to sample rate conversion). Filtering is accomplished through a 3rd-party library, and because of this, it’s recommended to use 44.1 kHz, as the filtering library doesn’t sound quite the same at higher sample rates.
The plugin is a free download available for Windows and Mac. For more information and to download the device, check out the link below.
