We’re solely simply into 2026, and Tilr is again with one other free plugin that appears set to overdeliver within the freeware class.
Tilr’s newest launch is QDelay, a free dual-delay plugin with extra options than you would possibly count on.
Earlier than we get into QDelay, right here’s a fast reminder of the freebies Tilr gave us in 2025.
Again to 2026, QDelay is a multi-mode, dual-delay plugin with impartial delay instances.
As a freebie, you won’t count on it to go a lot deeper, nevertheless it does.
You’ve obtained a bunch of how to change the delay fashion/time (seconds, straight, dotted, triplets), beginning with Regular, Ping-Pong, and Faucet modes.
Along with Suggestions and Width controls, you possibly can accent odd/even faucets, offset swing and really feel, modulate the delay line time, and even duck the delayed sign.
At this level, you’ve obtained a pleasant delay plugin that may create chaotic or managed musical echoes.
However when you get into the tone and sound-altering choices, it will get much more fascinating.
You will have pitch shifting (suggestions or post-delay sign), which creates refined detuning or extra jarring dissonance.
My favourite factor about QDelay is that it options comparatively complete EQ, Saturation, and Tape sections.
The parametric EQ means that you can form the suggestions and enter sign.
The Saturation with Colour, Bias, Dynamics, and Drive controls offers a little bit of analog taste. Extra importantly, it provides one other dimension to QDelay, making it greater than a typical free delay plugin.
The Tape part takes it even additional, with Wow and Flutter settings that add variation with out going wild with the delay.
As boring as it might sound, I are likely to favor refined(-ish) results more often than not, and a pleasant dotted eighth-note delay with some wow and flutter on EP/Synth/Pad chords is simply pretty.
Nonetheless, I really like that QDelay has a variety, and it’s nice that it goes past fundamental delay features, letting you do extra with a single plugin.
QDelay additionally encompasses a assortment of presets throughout a number of classes.
QDelay is obtainable in AU, VST3, and LV2 codecs for macOS, Home windows, and Linux.
A really vivid begin to the 12 months for Tilr, and a possible indicator of larger and higher issues to come back.
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Final Up to date on January 6, 2026 by Tomislav Zlatic.
