The Levels suite
Tackleberry Delay
Eight taps, and a dynamic EQ with distortion on the repeats. Put the EQ after the delay for clean echoes, or inside the feedback loop and let every repeat fall apart a little more.
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.
Early-bird pricing
These are launch prices and they will go up as the suite fills out. What you buy now is yours at that price for good: every future update is included, including the versions that cost more later. There is no subscription and no upgrade fee.
demo
See it work.
Demo coming soon
what's in it
Every control, and what it's for.
Controls marked Brain are the ones the Analyser can set for you on an ANALYSE pass.
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”).
quick start
Four steps to a sound.
- 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.
Not currently suitable for Pro Tools
These are AU and VST3 plugins. Pro Tools only loads AAX, which these aren't built as - so none of the suite will appear in it. Please check your DAW before you buy - once you download, the sale is final.
Get Tackleberry Delay
AU · VST3 · Standalone - macOS 10.15 Catalina or later, Windows (VST3). Installers are not yet notarised, so there's one extra click on first install; the install guide walks through it.
Where it's confirmed to work
Honest version: this is a one-person operation, so it has been properly tested in the DAWs below and not yet in the others. Not tested yet means exactly that - not that it fails.
| DAW | System | Plugins load | They share with each other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logic Pro | macOS | Yes | Yes |
| GarageBand | macOS | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Ableton Live | Mac/Win | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Cubase / Nuendo | Mac/Win | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Studio One Confirmed on Windows (VST3). The sharing side is still to be checked. | Mac/Win | Yes | Not tested yet |
| Reaper Confirmed on Intel Mac - both AU and VST3, and the plugins share with each other. Not yet tested on Windows. | Mac/Win | Yes | Yes |
| FL Studio | Mac/Win | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Bitwig Studio | Mac/Win | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Digital Performer | Mac/Win | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Pro Tools Pro Tools only loads AAX plugins. These are AU and VST3. | Mac/Win | No | No |
| System | Confirmed | |
|---|---|---|
| macOS on Intel | Yes | Confirmed working from 10.15 Catalina upwards. |
| macOS on Apple Silicon | Yes | Confirmed on an M4 Mac in Logic Pro. The installers are universal binaries, so they run natively - no Rosetta needed. |
| Windows 10 / 11 | Yes | VST3 only - there is no AU on Windows. Confirmed in Studio One. |
"They share with each other" is the ANALYSE pass, the clash matrix and the AUTO settings. Where a DAW keeps plugins apart, every plugin still works perfectly on its own - they just can't pass measurements between them, and nothing breaks. Ten-second check in any DAW: put Analyser on two tracks, turn one to master, and see whether the second track appears in its overview. Tell me what you find and this list gets updated.
Part of The Levels suite - see also: