Deleight

Name: Deleight
Price: 45 USD
Author: Audiority

by Audiority · Delay · Stereo multi-tap delay

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Deleight is a stereo multi-tap delay based on late-90s hardware processors, with 4+4 taps and a 5-second buffer.

It covers echoes, choruses, flangers, doublers and early reverbs, with an LFO, loop mode and sample rate reduction, for $49.

Best for: Guitars, Vocals, Keys & Synths, Drums, Sound Design. Genres: Electronic & EDM, Ambient & Cinematic, Rock & Indie.

Keywords: multi-tap, chorus, flanger, 90s, sample-rate reduction, resizable UI, digital classic, sound design, pads, clean, creative, digital delay, drums, mixing, reverse, rhythmic, samples & loops, stereo-linked, tempo-synced, vocals, wide.

What it does

Deleight is Audiority's stereo multi-tap delay, based on "late '90s digital delays hardware processors". Its taps can be set close together or far apart, so the same engine makes echoes, choruses, flangers, doublers and early reflections.

Taps: 4+4 taps (four per channel), each with its own pan control, on a 5-second delay buffer.
Time ranges: 7 ranges, from very short times for chorus and flange up to long echoes, with tempo sync.
Feedback: left, right and feedback channels, with normal or cross feedback per channel and an option to link the channels.
Modulation: an LFO with 11 waveforms for moving the delay lines, which is what turns it into a chorus or flanger.
Loop mode: a looping mode for repeating effects, with speed and reverse controls.
Character: an internal sample rate reduction control to get the grainier sound of older digital gear.
Workflow: a resizable interface and an inline manual.

The current version is 1.4.1 (May 2023). A demo is available; in demo mode the plugin outputs 3 seconds of silence every minute.

Source: Audiority product page

When to use it

Deleight is the better pick when you want a multi-tap delay with a late-90s digital rack flavour that also doubles as a chorus, flanger and doubler. Compared with UltraTap, it is a simpler, cheaper multi-tap with a fixed set of eight panned taps, plus cross feedback, a loop mode and sample rate reduction for an older digital sound. It is more specialised than H-Delay or Valhalla Delay, which cover tape and analog styles as well, and it has none of EchoBoy's tape and analog echo models.

Best for: rhythmic multi-tap echoes, wide doubling, chorus and flange from delay lines, and modulated pads.
Genres: electronic, ambient, experimental and rock.
Look elsewhere if: you want warm tape or analog echoes (EchoBoy or Galaxy Tape Echo), or lots of presets to start from.
Tip: Bedroom Producers Blog found it strongest on pads and experimental sound design with modulated delay lines.

What producers say

Reviewers rate it as a capable, easy-to-use multi-tap delay with a quirky, creative side.

Bedroom Producers Blog (2017) gave it 90%, calling it "almost everything one could possibly want in a multi-tap delay"; it praised the clean, resizable interface and the modulation, and named the Korg DL8000R as the hardware it follows.
KVR user (one review, 4 out of 5, version 1.0) called it "a quirky little delay" for spatial effects with reasonable CPU use.
Criticisms: the 2017 review heard a click in the loop (the developer was working on it) and found fewer modulation options than the hardware; a KVR commenter missed presets that show what it can do.

Where to buy

Plugin Boutique: $45
Audiority: $49

Tutorials and reviews

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