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SevenDelay

SevenDelay is a stereo delay with 7th order lagrange interpolated fractional delay and 7x oversampling.

full package contains following builds.

Linux build is built on Ubuntu 22.04. If you are using distribution other than Ubuntu 22.04, plugin will not likely to run. In this case, please take a look at build instruction.

macOS package is recommended for macOS user. I can’t purchase Apple Developer Program, therefore installation requires a workaround to bypass Gatekeeper. Details of workaround are written in Installation -> macOS Specific section.

Contact

Feel free to contact me on GitHub repository or ryukau@gmail.com.

You can fund the development through paypal.me/ryukau.

Installation

Plugin

Move *.vst3 directory to:

DAW may provides additional VST3 directory. For more information, please refer to the manual of the DAW.

Presets

Notice: Some plugins don’t have presets provided by Uhhyou Plugins.

Presets are included in the plugin package linked at the top of this page. To install presets, follow the steps below.

  1. Download plugin from a link at the top of this page.
  2. Extract downloaded zip file.
  3. Open presets directory placed in extracted package.
  4. Move Uhhyou directory into an OS specific preset directory (see below).

Below is a list of preset directories for each OS.

Preset directory name must be the same as the plugin. If preset directory does not exist, create it.

Windows Specific

If DAW doesn’t recognize the plugin, try installing C++ redistributable (vc_redist.x64.exe). Installer can be found in the link below.

Linux Specific

On Ubuntu 22.04, those packages are required.

sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0  libxkbcommon-x11-0

If DAW doesn’t recognize the plugin, take a look at Package Requirements section of the link below and make sure all the VST3 related package is installed.

REAPER on Linux may not recognize the plugin. A workaround is to delete a file ~/.config/REAPER/reaper-vstplugins64.ini and restart REAPER.

macOS Specific

Important: full package is not confirmed working. When using full, try removing following files.

macOS package doesn’t contain above files. Also, all packages are in “ad-hoc signing” state set by codesign command.

Remove Quarantine

When trying to run plugin first time, following message may appear on macOS.

<PluginName>.vst3 is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

In this case, open terminal and try running one or both of following command to unzipped .vst3 directory. Replace /path/to/PluginName.vst3 according to your install location.

xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /path/to/PluginName.vst3
xattr -rc /path/to/PluginName.vst3

Bypass Gatekeeper

Plugin may be considered as unsigned/un-notarized application. In this case, open System Preferences, go to Security & Privacy → General, then click the Open Anyway button. The offcial Apple help page linked below has screenshots for the procedure. See “If you want to open an app that hasn’t been notarized or is from an unidentified developer” section.

If the plugin is still not working, try changing install location to /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST3/ or /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST3/ whichever still haven’t tried.

If all the above methods do not work, try following the steps below.

  1. Open terminal and run sudo spctl --master-disable.
  2. Go to System Preferences → Security and Privacy → General → Allow apps downloaded from, then select “Anywhere”.

Beware that steps above degrades security of your system. To revert the settings, follow the steps below.

  1. Go to System Preferences → Security and Privacy → General → Allow apps downloaded from, then select option to “App Store and identified developers”.
  2. Open terminal and run sudo spctl --master-enable.

Applying codesign

Note This section may not relevant to macOS packages. However it’s not verified. (GitHub issue)

To use full package, following command might be used.

sudo codesign --force --deep -s - /path/to/PluginName.vst3

codesign might not be available without installing Xcode.

Reference

GUI Style Configuration

At first time, create color config file to:

style.json will be loaded for each time a plugin window opens.

Several color themes are available on the link below.

Below is a example of style.json.

{
  "fontFamily": "Tinos",
  "fontBold": true,
  "fontItalic": true,
  "foreground": "#000000",
  "foregroundButtonOn": "#000000",
  "foregroundInactive": "#8a8a8a",
  "background": "#ffffff",
  "boxBackground": "#ffffff",
  "border": "#000000",
  "borderCheckbox": "#000000",
  "borderLabel": "#000000",
  "unfocused": "#dddddd",
  "highlightMain": "#0ba4f1",
  "highlightAccent": "#13c136",
  "highlightButton": "#fcc04f",
  "highlightWarning": "#fc8080",
  "overlay": "#00000088",
  "overlayHighlight": "#00ff0033"
}

Font Options

Following is a list of font options.

To use custom font, place *.ttf file into custom font path: *.vst3/Contents/Resources/Fonts.

Notice: If the combination of fontFamily, fontBold, fontItalic is not exists in custom font path, default font of VSTGUI is used.

If fontFamily is set to empty string "", then "Tinos" is used as fallback. If the length is greater than 1 and the font family name doesn’t exists, default font of VSTGUI is used.

Styles other than bold, italic or bold-italic are not supported by VSTGUI. For example, “Thin”, “Light”, “Medium”, and “Black” weights cannot be used.

Color Options

Hex color codes are used.

First letter # is conventional. Plugins ignore the first letter of color code, thus ?102938, \n11335577 are valid.

Do not use characters outside of 0-9a-f for color value.

Following is a list of color options. If an option is missing, default color will be used.

Controls

Right Click on the controls pops up a context menu provided by DAW.

Knob and slider provides following controls:

Caution

When the value of Smooth is near zero and change the value of Allpass Cut too fast, SevenDelay may output very loud click noise. This is caused by the filter which becomes unstable when cutoff frequency moves too fast. Recommendation is not to set Smooth parameter too low unless you have some specific purpose.

When the value of Time is set to minimum and the value of Feedback is set to maximum, SevenDelay outputs direct current (DC). To remove DC, Set DC Kill to be greater than 1.0.

Block Diagram

If the image is small, use Ctrl + Mouse Wheel or “View Image” on right click menu to scale.

Diagram only shows overview. It’s not exact implementation.

Parameters

Delay

Time

Delay time. Range is 0.0001 to 8.0.

Feedback

Delay feedback. Range is 0.0 to 1.0.

Stereo

L/R stereo offset. Range is -1.0 to 1.0.

Wet

Output volume of delayed signal. Range is 0.0 to 1.0.

Dry

Output volume of input signal. Range is 0.0 to 1.0.

Sync

Toggle tempo sync.

Negative

Toggle negative feedback. This may be useful when delay time is very short.

In/Out Spread/Pan

Panning controls. Range is 0.0 to 1.0.

In/Out Spread controls stereo spread. In/Out Pan controls stereo panning.

These parameter can be used for inverse panning, ping-pong delay etc.

signalL = inL + spread * (inR - inL)
signalR = inL + (1.0f - spread) * (inR - inL)

if (pan < 0.5f) {
  outL = (0.5f + pan) * signalL + (0.5f - pan) * signalR,
  outR = signalR * 2.0f * pan,
}
else {
  outL = signalL * (2.0f - 2.0f * pan)
  outR = (pan - 0.5f) * signalL + (1.5f - pan) * signalR
}
Allpass Cut

SFV allpass filter cutoff frequency. Range is 90.0 to 20000.0.

If Allpass Cut is 20000.0, filter will be bypassed.

Allpass Q

SFV allpass filter resonance. Range is 0.00001 to 1.0.

DC Kill

Cutoff frequency of biquad highpass filter. Range is 1.0 to 120.0.

DC Kill removes direct current from delay feedback when the value is set to be greater than 1.0.

Smooth

Parameter smoothing. Range is 0.0 to 1.0. Unit is seconds.

Some parameter may produce noise when the value is changed too fast. Increasing Smooth reduces those noise.

LFO

To Time

LFO modulation amount to delay time. Range is 0.0 to 1.0.

To Allpass

LFO modulation amount to allpass cutoff frequency. Range is 0.0 to 1.0.

Freq

LFO frequency. Range is 0.01 to 100.0.

Shape

LFO waveform shape. Range is 0.01 to 10.0.

sign = 1 if (phase > π),
      -1 if (phase < π),
       0 if (phase == π)
lfo = sign * abs(sin(phase))^shape
Phase

LFO initial phase. Range is 0.0 to 2π.

LFO phase is reset to Phase for each time host starts playing.

Hold

Toggle LFO phase hold. This may be useful for live performance.

Change Log

Old Versions

License

SevenDelay is licensed under GPLv3. Complete licenses are linked below.

If the link above doesn’t work, please send email to ryukau@gmail.com.

About VST

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