DRIFT
6-mode creative delayA creative delay with 6 engines — tape, BBD, digital, ghost, pitch and reverse — and a live echo timeline. From subtle slap to evolving, pitched soundscapes.
- Tape · BBD · Digital · Ghost · Pitch · Reverse
- Live echo-timeline visualizer
- Morph, ducking & freeze
- Slap → evolving soundscapes
- Which of the six engines did you keep coming back to? Tape, BBD, Digital, Ghost, Pitch, Reverse — we want to know which one earns its place in your sessions and which one surprised you.
- Morph between two engines while audio is running. Smooth morphing is the party trick — tell us if it feels as good as it should.
- Ducking on a busy vocal — does the delay get out of the way and come back naturally?
- Tempo sync in an odd time signature (6/8, 5/4), with dotted and triplet divisions, then change the project tempo mid-playback. Confirm it stays locked.
Learn DRIFT
QUICK-START · 6 MINSet up a tempo-locked character delay with dub-style tone and ducking that stays out of the vocal's way.
- 01
Pick MODE and STYLE
Choose the engine: Tape for classic warmth, BBD for dark analog repeats, Digital for clean, Ghost for frequency-shifted weirdness, Pitch for shimmering repeats, Reverse for backwards throws. Each MODE has five STYLE variants — audition a couple before dialing.
- 02
Sync the time
Set SYNC to a note division — dotted 8th is the money setting for vocals and melodies. Use DELAY / DELAY R (or the RATIO control) for stereo spacing, and drag the dots on the ECHO TIMELINE to shape taps directly (X = time, height = level).
- 03
Set FEEDBACK
Raise FEEDBACK for more repeats — 100% is the longest tail that still decays. Set SLEW to control how the time behaves when changed: in Repitch TIME MODE the tail dives or rises like tape varispeed.
- 04
Add character
Push DRIVE so the repeats inherit saturation grit, and raise AGE for mode-dependent wear — HF loss and noise on Tape/BBD, bit-crush on Digital. WOW and FLUTTER add tape-transport drift that never repeats.
- 05
Shape the tone
Set LOW CUT and HIGH CUT in the feedback path so repeats get darker and thinner as they decay — the classic dub move. Raise RESO for a resonant peak that builds over the repeats (it's bounded automatically at high FEEDBACK).
- 06
Duck under the source
Raise DUCK so echoes tuck down while the vocal sings and bloom in the gaps; set DUCK ATT / REL for how fast that happens. Finish with WIDTH, MIX, and OUTPUT.
- TIME MODE matters: Repitch glides like varispeed tape, Fade crossfades to the new time with no pitch bend, Jump snaps. Automate time changes in Repitch for dive-bomb transitions.
- FREEZE holds the buffer losslessly — the loop stops running through the filters so it never darkens. Use FEED to layer new material into a frozen loop.
- MORPH melts discrete echoes into a reverb-like wash — automate it through a section change.
- RANDOMIZE is genuinely useful for sound design — hit it a few times and A/B the accidents against your setting.
Every control, its range, and what it actually does — the complete DRIFT manual.
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Insert DRIFT in your DAW (AU · VST3 · AAX). First launch asks for activation via iLok License Manager.
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