FRCTL Audio DLAY is a new delay plugin for macOS, Linux, and Windows that lets you design your own delay using 64 fully customizable taps.
In early 2026, FRCTL Audio released GRN 2, an excellent free update to its hands-on granular plugin, featuring a full multi-FX processor.
The second plugin from the FRCTL Audio developers is DLAY, a delay plugin that lets users visually assemble all kinds of delays.
FRCTL Audio DLAY
DLAY for macOS, Linux, and Windows is not your average delay plugin. It’s more of a delay playground consisting of a single canvas with 64 fully customizable taps.
These taps can be easily dragged anywhere on a single timeline and modified at the per-tap level for volume, pitch, formant, filter, or saturation. You can also select a group and drag it, or zoom in on any moment in your delay timeline.
To make your delays more interesting, DLAY, FRCTL Audio also added a function that lets you create sweeps within the delays. With the ripples for the gain, filter, pan, formant, drive, and time, you can achieve various behaviors.
For example, the gain ripple drops volume off across the chain, so you get instant decay shapes from a gentle fade to a sharp tail. The pan ripple on the other side spreads alternating taps left and right.
With the formant, drive, and time ripples, you can paint cascading characters without touching a single tap individually.
Grooves, Character & More
Like other delays, FRCTL Audio also includes various ways in DLAY to work with the delay’s tempo. You can go free in time with milliseconds or lock to your DAW tempo with note divisions from whole down to 1/64, plus dotted and triplet variants.
Alternatively, DLAY has twelve rhythm patterns built in: tresillo, clave, swing, polyrhythms, bouncing-ball decay, golden-ratio cascade, and more, giving you plenty of options to create custom delays.
On top of that, you can layer humanize and shuffle to add more of an organic feel to them. To make it all even more interesting, you can choose from seven distinct delay characters: digital, tape, BBD, LoFi, space, vinyl, and radio.
The more unusual ones are vinyl and radio. Vinyl adds wow and crackle while radio compresses and band-limits like a broadcast. Additionally, you can drag the high-pass and low-pass curves directly on the visualization.
That’s not all, DLAY also offers a modulation section with ping-pong, drift, wobble, shuffle, humanize, and duck that infuses movement and life into the taps.
First Impression
A very exciting delay from the creators of the GRN2 granular processor. The ability to design your own delays is certainly the highlight here. It shows how versatile and deep multi-tap delays can be.
FRCTL Audio DLAY is available now for $34,99. It runs as a VST3, AU, and CLAP plugin on macOS (native Apple Silicon + Intel), Linux, and Windows.
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