D16 Group

With so many high-quality vintage-style
delay plugins already on the market, any new
entrant needs to ofer something genuinely
diferent to stand any real chance of success. In
their follow-up to the excellent but very full-on
Sigmund (9/10,
198), D16 reckon they’ve
come up with a plugin that sets itself apart both
sonically and functionally.
Developed in conjunction with Slate Digital
(and consequently also available in that
company’s subscription-based Everything
Bundle), Repeater (VST/AU/AAX) takes all the
controls you’d expect to ind on a ‘traditional’
stereo delay unit and separates them almost
completely for the left and right channels.
Indeed, the ’left’ and ‘right’ demarcations
themselves are wholly arbitrary, as each has its
own Pan knob, so either can be positioned
anywhere in the stereo ield – put them both
in the centre, if you like. The other key selling
point is a roster of 23 classic delay modelling
algorithms, which you can read all about in
23 and me.
Split personality
Repeater’s disconnection of L and R channels is
achieved on a per-parameter basis using the
seven Link buttons arranged along the central
plane of the GUI. With any given Link button
D16 Group
Repeater €89
The veteran Polish developers unleash a vintage-modelling
delay plugin with the uncanny ability to separate right from left…
“Every control in
the interface is
link/unlinkable,
making the system
supremely lexible”
INPUT LEVEL
Overdrive the clipping
saturation circuit by
up to +12dB
LINK BUTTONS
Every L/R
parameter pairing
can be run linked
or unlinked
PING PONG
Route the
feedback
from channel
to channel in
Ping Pong
mode
MIX AND PAN
Pan each channel
and set its
wet/dry balance
SPREAD
Widen the
stereo image
with two levels
of phase offset
ANALOG MODE
Degrade the
feedback signal
with each pass
COLOR
Alter the tonal
characteristics of the
saturation circuit
FILTERS
Separate low- and high-
pass filters are onboard
for each channel
DELAY TIME
Set the L and R delay
times, or click them in
with the Tap tempo button
FEEDBACK
Adjust the feedback
for each channel
individually
active, the identical controls above and below it
move together when either is adjusted; with
Link disabled, each knob moves entirely
independently of the other. Every control in the
interface is link/unlinkable, making the system
supremely lexible, but there is one minor issue:
clicking a Link button immediately snaps its R
knob to match its L partner – the option to
maintain their relative ofset could be useful.
Going with the fl ow
At the start of Repeater’s signal low, the Input
knob determines how hard the incoming audio
is driven into Repeater’s clipping saturation
circuit, from -12dB to +12dB. The tone of this
saturation is brightened or darkened via the
Color knob, which crossfades between ixed-
frequency band-pass and notch ilters.
From there, three Sync modes let you set the
L and R delay times freely from 0.11000ms or
synced to host tempo from 1/1 to 1/64, with
2
MINUTES
WITH…
VIDEO
94 / COMPUTER MUSIC / March 2017
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