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Load and play video in Gallery viewer, Imitor is a delay designed for experimentation. With up to 32 delay taps and tons of time and tone parameters, Imitor is perfect for creating unusual echoes and experimenting with different delay shapes and patterns. We love Imitor so much that we use it for everything, from long, evolving echoes to effects like comb filtering, chorus, and flanging.

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Imitor Plugin (AU, AAX, and VST3)

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Endless time and space effects for your sounds with up to 32 taps, Doom, Shimmer, and Crunch.

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Imitor is a delay designed for experimentation. With up to 32 delay taps and tons of time and tone parameters, Imitor is perfect for creating unusual echoes, experimenting with different delay shapes and patterns, adding vintage flare to an atmosphere, and more. Despite its power, we wanted to make it immediate to use, so we included a load of presets, ranging from your bread-and-butter delay settings to otherworldly, wacky ones that will blow your mind. Or, hit the rand button and see where Imitor takes you.

All Noise Engineering plugins feature an extensive modulation system so you can get your patches moving with LFOs, envelopes, and step sequencers – plus, modulators have adjustable randomization for easy humanization.

Put Imitor on anything from vocals to rhythms to instruments and more. Turn it up for long, evolving echoes or crank down the delay times for effects like comb filtering, chorus, and flanging.

Imitor is a playground, it’s a beast asking to be tamed, it’s more. Ask your doctor if Imitor is right for you.

Our plugins come with free updates for the lifetime of the product. As long as we make the plugin, it will be supported, and if you buy a plugin, it is yours. We do not provide access to old versions. Our goal is to support operating system versions currently supported by Microsoft and Apple. You will be able to update all plugin(s) you purchase for free. Updates may include bugfixes or feature adds.

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Noise Engineering · Imitor for VST, AU, and AAX

Features

Huge delay time range from below 1ms to 1.5s between taps
Use a single tap for traditional echoes, or add in up to 32 taps for complex delay patterns
Tap display shows tap structure and visualizes echoes for easy tweaking
Disable taps and use the flexible panning, dynamics, and timing controls to create wild echo patterns
Add tap modulation for stereo width and vintage effects
Sync to host tempo with flexible time divisions: create triplets, dotted notes, or straight rhythms
Use millisecond delay times to create comb filters, flangers, and other wild effects
Change echo timbre with the resonant DJ-style filter, or the Shimmer and Doom feedback effects
Add warmth and flavor or outright distortion with the Crunch output effect
Use the Random button to generate new patches in one click
Easy to automate, user-friendly controls.
Tooltips make it easy to learn what Imitor is all about
Customize the interface to your liking: change the color, resize the window, add fire, and more
Inspired by the popular Eurorack module: bridge the gap between the sounds of modular and your DAW production
Complex internal modulation: route macro controls, step sequencers, and powerful LFOs to almost any parameter
Library of presets included, including your bread-and-butter delays and wild and feral delays
AAX, AU, VST®

Manuals: Download Manual

Presets: Bouncing Ball

Vintage Vibes

Eighth Note Delay

Delayed Delay

Karp

System Requirements

64-bit only
Windows	Windows 10+
Mac	MacOS 10.14+; Intel and M1 Native

Processor information:

Our Intel compatible plugins require the SSE4.1 instruction set.
This was added in the Intel 45nm Penryn architecture in 2007.
Compatible AMD processors are Bulldozer, Piledriver, Steamroller and Ryzen families.
In the Macverse, any Mac built after 2010 should have the required instructions.

This is a minimum required specification.

For optimal experience, we recommend Intel's Haswell or later and AMD's Ryzen family.
We also recommend Apple's desktop CPUs (M1 and friends).

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