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A good iOS delay
I'm after a decent delay for iOS. Any suggestions?
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Jesus.... 'good'? You're really helping us narrow down the choices there 😂
Magic Delay, Other Desert Cities, Timeless spring to mind. For just a bog standard, dirt cheap delay that is also super clean sounding, TFX Echo is great. K7d, very cheap and very experimental. One of the Genuine Soundware / Guido Scognamiglio ones would be good.
This is an old playlist I made, needs an update
I've heard a few good things about ODC. Going to look into that one I think.
Ok, maybe not good. Mind blowing, fantabulous, cool beans, take your pick 😂
I love having fun with the tons of delays I already have ; in no particular order : Yukawa, Bleass Delay, TTap, Modley, MixBox… and many more… but my only "mind blowing" + "fantabulous" + SO "cool beans", is FabFilter Timeless 3 !
I’d say Other Desert Cities. There’s an iOS music Facebook group I’m part of that recently held a voting contest for best delay and ODC took top spot. I think Timeless was 2nd or 3rd - don’t remember the other..
Other Desert Cities has lots of engines and flexibility, I also vote for it.
In terms of interface, it's also much more suited to a touch screen than the fab filter apps. Polls do kind of suck, in any poll though, expensive apps will tend to fare badly due to the simple fact that more people are likely to have the cheaper apps - hence I don't see Magic Delay winning any polls anytime soon. 🤷♂️
That said, Other Desert Cities is a gem!
FabFilter Timeless.
My top three delays are K7D, Other Desert Cities, and YaleD.
Other Desert Cities is the easiest to understand because of the excellent UI. It's also very flexible due to the different engines, and the quickest to set up, even if you just want a basic stereo delay.
Magic Delay has crazier modulations though, and the spectral component is unique, but it's not really a bread-and-butter delay.
Personally I reach for Other Desert Cities most of the time, with the occasional use of Timeless 3, or if I want something more vibey maybe the Genuine Soundware hardware emulations.
I tend to use Bleass Delay the most.
Wires has been impressing me a lot lately for old and wonky.
I have some exotic delays that will smear a simple ‘blib’ into an endless washy-washy, like ODC, but I usually pick the simplest ones, and preferably a delay with character and texture, like the Echo B2 and the delay in the new Wires, which is great for grit and degradation. Dubstation 2 is a bread and butter delay for me as well. It’s the first delay I ever bought on iOS and it’s kind of doing everything you need a delay to do in a simple package.
I’ve got ODC, Timeless 2, Yaled, RE-1, FD-1 etc. but find myself grasp a lot for K7D and Audio Damage RatshackReverb (that does a delay).
I have and love most of the ones mentioned above as well as Kymatica’s AU3FX: Dub and Nembrini’s Delay3000. The delays in AudioThing’s Wires are getting a lot use here, too. Unconventional and very immersive.
I use Imaginando’s K7D a lot. It does a very nice straightforward tape delay but you wouldn’t know that from the presets.
For longer delays, it’s Tap Delay from Virsyn. We need more longer delays; most of the apps don’t do more than 2 seconds.
Yes, somehow devs think that presets should be completely psychotic craziness, instead of some subtle ones that are actually useful. When tamed K7D is nice.
Timeless 3
Runner-up Magic Delay
And I still like Kosmonaut as my go to “simple” delay. It’s the simplest I use at least. I’d like Unfiltered Audio or Baby to port their delays though.
But at bottom, Timeless is the gold standard.
I own most of them.. I always reach for these 1st because they sound great + fit very well in a mix..
ODC Timeless 3 Kosmonaut Dubstation and there is a delay that nobody mentioned which is really good but heavy on the cpu which is Modley. This one is module delay that you can setup in almost every way yor can think of
Other Desert Cities is awesome, but I keep going back to AD Dubstation 2 and BLEASS Delay TBH. ODC tends to overwhelm whatever I put it on (it's probably me). It's simple and intuitive to dial up a good basic delay sound on Dubstation, and the pitch shift on BLEASS is easy to wrangle and oh so fun.
Other Desert Cities is becoming my bread and butter delay, as it can do simple things without a lot of fuss, but it also offers a range of different delay models (including an excellent reverse delay model), a simple to use but useful modulation system, and a range of creative options for more interesting delay setups.
Timeless 3 is excellent too, though perhaps a bit too complex for simpler everyday use, partly because it doesn't ship with simpler presets and its default preset is not a simple delay (although I downloaded an excellent pack of 300 more basic AUM presets for Timeless which cover all that) - but it would be my #1 creative delay for sure due to its mid/side and per-channel options, excellent modulation and filtering options, and multi-tap.
Dubstation is a lesser quality delay to me. Doesn’t sound very good.
If you want trippyAF delays @NeonSilicon has TWO FREE delay AU's
Spriangle and PhaseDelayArray
and then there is Kajita (delay and reverb == reverb is really just a LOT of delays) with more nuts and bolts knob control than the average human needs
Timeless does trippyAF as well
80% of the time I'm usually grabbing OtherDesertCities (I live by the damn freeway sign they based it off of) or Bleass Delay for quick prototyping a reverb.
MagicDelay is has great presets and sounds like an instrument unto itself... one day I will make my own presets
Au3fx Dub, doesn’t look fancy but it has very thoughtful layout of controls
ApedElay
ApeDelay
How is it possible for all these different delay effects to sound different? Surely if there’s a delay effect, another delay effect will sound the same, given the same settings?
Chow Matrix is easily missed, since it don’t got DELAY in the name.
Don’t miss out on this one, it is quite unique.
Just look at ODC.
Each algorithm sounds different, and that is just one app.
Different filters, signal paths, etc would make a difference too.
Another +1 for OtherDesertCities. Can get remarkable sounds out of some of those algos's which have very little to do with delay, but that I can't really imagine getting elsewhere. One of the only plugs so far that I've had to own on both desktop and iOS. AD really pulled out some magic with that. Great standard delay unit, also
Timeless 3, also. Just stunning sounds to be had, and the playable filter makes it a dream dub-delay for me. One day I'll pick it up on desktop, also.
Other than that, it might be worth putting a few Shekels aside, as a much-loved desktop-plugin-developer (Now seemingly set to be a very prolific iOS developer) may soon release one of the most highly-regarded Space-Echo emulations
At that point my personal trifecta will be complete. Or at least it would've been, had I not started watching @Gavinski 's 'Magic Delay' walkthrough, earlier today