As a music producer particularly when starting out it’s tough, moneys tight, skills still developing and wondering how everyone else is seemingly achieving “that sound” with ease.
Well as part of our on-going series we’ll be looking at the best free tools we can find to help you on your music production journey.
Today we’re looking at delays. Great for all genres of music from Rock to EDM they should have a place in every music producers tool kit.
Bionic Delay
- Windows only
http://www.interruptor.ch/vst/
- tape model including tape saturation, wow, flutter, low and high pass filtering
- separate control of delay time for left and right channel
- The delay time is not entered in milliseconds but as a notelength (in relation to the song tempo in your sequencer). The Groove parameter allows fine tuning from tripplet to dotted note timing.
- “Drift” parameter gives you the possibility to create delays wandering to the left or to right in the stereo field
- press the “Ping Pong” button to create delays alternating between left and right speaker.
- parameter “Smooth” creates continuous delay time changes like on a real tape delay (no digital clicks when changing delay time during the song)
- parameter “Stereo Width” varies stereo effect from subtle to drastic
- MIDI learn: Right-click any control to assign a midi control and automate the parameter from you DAW.
- pop-up hints help to understand the function of each control on the user interface. These appear when the mouse rests over a control.
TAL-Dub-2
https://tal-software.com/products/tal-dub
- A 4x oversampled distortion stage allows to add vintage distortion to the delayd signal, but its also possible to make clean delays.
- A sinus LFO has the possibility to modulate delay time and low pass filter cutoff. Adjustable LFO stereo width is also included.
- Analog sounding 6dB low pass filter with resonance and a 3dB high cut filter are also parts of TAL-DUB-II. Different routing options open a wide range of possibilities.
TAL-Dub-3
https://tal-software.com/products/tal-dub
- It has an alias free saturation stage,
- Non-linear 6dB low pass and a 3dB high pass filter that are included in the feedback path of the device.
- Input drive knob allows to adjust the saturation level.
- Pop-up menues show the current values of volume, delay-time and feedback knobs. A tab button allowing to adjust the delay time for live sessions.
Adam Monroes Delay
http://adammonroemusic.com/free-delay-vst/delay-vst-free.html#
- Time, feedbacl and mix knobs
- Synced panning
- Linear or expoential high pass and low pass filtering
- Windows and Mac
Lagrange
- Use basic settings to create immersive stereo imagery with clean early reflections to give instruments a clear place in the mix.
- Use the feedback control to transform your sounds into droning evolving soundscapes.
- Shorten the delay time to create unusual metallic chorus effects.
Speculumfree
https://www.decadebridge.com/category/software/plugins/
- Speculumfree is a delay/comb filter effect plugin.
- Speculum’s state can be switched between delay and comb filter. The resulting sound is fed through a resonant low pass filter.
- The delay rate can be finely adjusted through the divide function. This gives speculum the ability to produce flanging, chorus and phasing effects when automated.
Violent Free Delay
- A simple delay plugin where you can change the delay with chorus, filter and phaser:
Sounds great, excellent feature set and ideal for music production of any genre. Many options makes it one of the most versatile free delays here.
Ghost Xoo 