Manual
Tackleberry Delay
A clean digital multi-tap delay — up to eight taps reading one shared circular buffer, with global feedback, tempo sync and stereo width — feeding Denzel’s dynamic-EQ + multiband-distortion engine on the wet, with a Post/Feedback EQ-placement toggle. Brain-free in v1.
The interface - every control mapped
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- Insert on a send/aux or an insert with Dry/Wet pulled back.
- Add taps with + Add Tap; set each tap’s time / level / pan in the stem editor.
- Turn SYNC on to lock tap times to note divisions, or off for free ms.
- Set Feedback and Width, then colour the wet with the dynamic EQ / drive — choose Post or Feedback placement.
Multi-tap delay core
Up to 8 taps read ONE shared stereo buffer at their own fractional offsets — not N separate delay lines.
Added with the + Add Tap tile, removed with each column’s red minus. Per tap: time, level, pan (mute retained in state).
A colour-coded vertical stem per tap: TIME dropdown (note division on SYNC, ms slider off), LEVEL / PAN drag handles.
4-point Catmull-Rom cubic interpolation on every fractional read — no saturation, wow/flutter or drift in the delay path. A tap-time move crossfades (~20 ms) between old and new read positions instead of jumping.
Global SYNC toggle. On: each tap picks a note division (1/1…1/32, dotted & triplet) locked to host BPM. Off: free-time ms (1 ms–4 s).
A single feedback gain on the summed tap output, recirculated into the buffer. Kept < 1 with a soft write clamp so it can’t run away.
Stereo width (mid/side) on the wet.
The final mix (last delay knob).
Wet processing & placement
Six bands, identical to Denzel’s engine (static + up/down dynamics) plus per-band drive shapers — on the wet only.
The wet EQ includes 2nd-order all-pass Phase bands — unity magnitude, rotating phase up to 360° around freq without changing tone or level — plus the MAG / PHASE curve toggle (the phase view draws the summed phase response from the exact audio coefficients). Useful for nudging the repeats’ phase against the dry so a stacked wet/dry doesn’t comb.
Each dynamic band can key off an external sidechain — standard use: duck the delay repeats from the dry source.
Post (default): buffer stays clean, EQ/drive shape the summed wet after the taps — every repeat coloured identically (mirrors Wallace). Feedback: the EQ’d wet recirculates, so each repeat is progressively re-coloured (classic dub “grimy tail”).