Colonnade Delay

Each engine puts its machine inside the feedback loop, so tone, saturation and wear build up repeat by repeat. STUDIO stays clean; TAPE adds saturation, a low-end bump, high-frequency loss and wow and flutter; BUCKET darkens as times get longer, with a soft breathing in level; GHOST brings lo-fi bit and sample-rate reduction with a slow warble. AGE takes each machine from fresh to worn, and DRIVE adds saturation that grows on every pass. DEPTH moves an engine's echoes from in front of the dry sound to far behind it, changing level, air, smear, arrival time and width together, so one insert can hold a close slap and a distant wash at once. On the stage every repeat sits at its real time: drag a lane's head sideways for time and up or down for depth, or drag its last repeat outward for more feedback. The two engines run side by side, ping-pong across the stereo field, in series, or split between the center and the sides. Each has a resonant filter and pitch shift inside its loop, so a +12 setting climbs an octave every second repeat, plus reverse and tap tempo. Feedback goes past 100 percent into controlled self-oscillation, and FREEZE holds whatever is in the loop. Ducking drops the echoes under the dry signal and lets them bloom in the gaps, SWING and NUDGE set the groove, and KILL DRY with LOCK keeps a send fully wet. Colonnade adds no latency at any setting. 44 factory presets in six sections cover vocals, drums, guitars, keys and synths, mix effects and sound design, and you can save your own. AU, VST3 and AAX on macOS; VST3 and AAX on Windows. Installs and updates through MuseHub, with no license key. Requires macOS 10.15 or later on Intel or macOS 11 or later on Apple silicon, or Windows 10 or later, 64-bit.