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Illthy Layerztwo-tap vintage digital delay

VST3 modulein the NoAMP zipv0.1.1

The board's delay as its own plugin: a vintage two-tap digital delay with musical layouts, note-value sync, repeats that darken and saturate as they regenerate, motion on the line and a converter-grit control for lo-fi trails. This plugin is Layerz's Linear engine.

Controls

ControlWhat it does
OnOff fades the echoes away; your dry signal passes untouched.
LayoutHow the two taps sit. Slap: one centred tap. Ping-Pong: repeats bounce left and right. Dotted (default): one tap at Time on the left, one at 1.5 × Time on the right. Chorus: short modulated doubling taps. Wash: two slightly detuned taps with a long-feedback lean.
TimeDelay time, 20 to 1500 ms (default 350 ms). Ignored while Sync is on.
Sync + DivisionDelay length follows the host tempo as a note value: 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/4., 1/4T, 1/8, 1/8., 1/8T, 1/16, 1/16T (default 1/8). With no host tempo it assumes 120 BPM.
FeedbackHow many repeats, 0 to 100% (default 45%).
ModOne knob of warble: rate and depth together (default 30%).
Mod WaveTriangle (default) or Sine.
CharacterConverter grit, 0 to 100% (default 40%). 0 is fully clean.
BitsBit depth of the delay memory: 16, 12 (default), 11, 8. Heard through Character.
FB DriveSaturates the repeats as they regenerate.
DampingEach repeat gets darker, an in-loop high cut from about 16 kHz down to 2 kHz.
Repeat LCLow cut inside the feedback loop, 40 to 200 Hz (default 80 Hz), so the trail never gets muddy.
BandwidthHigh cut on what goes into the delay, 2 to 16 kHz.
WidthStereo spread of the two taps (default 80%).
MixDry/wet (default 35%).
FreezeHolds the current repeats indefinitely and shuts the input out of the delay. Play over the held bed.

On the NoAMP board

The LAYERZ card on the board has an Engine menu with three delays. Linear is this plugin, plus a sixth layout, Reverse. Quantum slices what you play to the beat and stutters, reverses, warps and smears it, steered by three nodes on its own screen. Echo is a tube tape unit with a sliding record head. See LAYERZ in the NoAMP manual.

Specs, tersely

Enginetwo-tap modulated delay, in-loop damping, low cut and saturation, bit-depth reduction, click-free fades
Synchost tempo, 10 note values
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