Every clean, controlled, go-to delay sound — plus some new tricks: tape saturation and tape wear, oscillating tap density, tremolo, chorus, and stereo widening, with ranges that go way beyond the limits of other delay plugins.
Mac & Windows · VST3 & AU · No DRM · No subscriptions · No dongles · No iLok · Perpetual license
Everything from clean slap-back and rhythmic multi-tap patterns to tape-saturated extremes at the far end of every knob — taps warped and pulled toward a single point in time, like light bending near a black hole. Warp Delay doesn't clamp the extremes off to keep you safe: turn a parameter all the way and it goes all the way.
The Randomize button isn't a novelty reset. Every parameter it touches is individually selectable, so you decide what changes and what stays locked in place. Randomize only Warp and density while your tone controls stay put, and you will discover tap patterns you never would have dialed in by hand. Step back through your history with the random-undo if a happy accident is worth keeping.
The tape stage borrows heavily from Airwindows ToTape6 (Patreon-funded, MIT-licensed). It isn't a straight port: this version creates natural darkening by running inside the delay matrix itself, at the record head, so saturation and wear degrade with the feedback instead of coloring the signal once afterward. There are two options of saturation, Tape and OD (Overdrive). MIT License, Airwindows.
True stereo, with a simulated goniometer to show you how narrow or wide your sound is. WIDTH creates stereo widening and spatialization across the whole wet signal - from subtle spread to a wide, immersive field. Engage NO MID to isolate the sides entirely, so the center doesn't become muddy while retaining almost supernatural width.
Slide the crossfader to hear the "wet" effect.
Try this: ambient pillowy echoes, heavily lowpassed with consistent delay tap timings.
Use as a thickener: Engage Chorus and Wide on a simple synth sound and each delay tap essentially becomes a new oscillator, adding up to 64 additional detuned voices, thickening the sound, and giving new life to ordinary sounds. Add Tape drive for more harmonic saturation.
Try this: push the drums through a single low-latency (1ms) delay tap, and use Tape drive and head bump to saturate your drums. Alternatively, use tape wear to degrade your sound.
Try this: use the Wave effect to create ripples in the delay line. Use Tremolo to create volume pulses.
Traditional delay plugins give you a tap and a feedback knob for repeats. Warp Delay runs a full 64 tap matrix with freely adjustable density at the beginning and end. Tighter density near the source creates a thickening effect that tails out into diffusion. Looser tap density near the source creates looser echoes that tail out into a dense wash.
Tape saturation and tape wear live inside the delay's own feedback path. Warp Delay's tape compounds with every repeat instead of coloring the output once, and its warp curve gives you a physical, visual handle on the plugin's most experimental corner. Further refinements include tape head bump, high-frequency rolloff, and variable speed and intensity tape flutter.
Mac & Windows · VST3 & AU · No DRM · No subscriptions · No dongles · No iLok · Perpetual license
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Windows: after unzipping, drag the whole "Warp Delay.vst3" folder — don't open it — into C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\.
See the changelog for what's new in each version.
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