Deelay: free delay plugin by Sixth Sample
Clean, modern delay with diffusion and modulation.
Opens Sixth Sample's own site.
Put SCRAMBLE. on your drums, 808s and vocals
One button rolls a new FX chain: glitch, stutter, tape stop, chops, reverb, delay and vocal tune. There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible chains, the same count as the positions of a 3x3 cube. Save 10,000 presets a day and 1% of them would take 118 billion years, over 8x the age of the universe.
Not just loops: drum buses, 808s and bass, hats, vocals and the master bus. 3,000+ downloads so far.
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Deelay FAQ
Is Deelay free?
Yes. Deelay is a free delay plugin from Sixth Sample. The button on this page goes straight to the maker's own download page.
What is Deelay good for?
Clean, modern delay with diffusion and modulation.
What are the best alternatives to Deelay?
Other free delay plugins worth trying are Hysteresis, TAL-Dub-X and Replika. See the full ranked list of free delay plugins.