Blue Cat’s Late Replies is a powerful delay and multi effects plug-in that can be indefinitely extended by hosting third party VST, VST3 or AU plug-ins anywhere in the signal path.

With its unique topology, the plug-in is a full-featured delay machine with unlimited powers: both the 8 taps pattern module and the two nested feedback loops include plug-in slotsthat can host built-in effects or third party plug-ins.

So it’s not just about delays! The plug-in includes 25 built-in effects to further manipulate the delay lines: modulation effects, EQ and filters, dynamics processors, pitch and frequency shifters, wave shaper…

With the integrated ducker and its side chain input, ducking delays or reverbs has never been so easy.

Blue Cat’s Late Replies is delivered with hundreds of presets producing many kinds of audio effects: classic delays, rhythmic or melodic patterns, reverbs, vintage echoes, shimmer effects, sci-fi sounds and more.

Main Features

• Powerful delay with built-in effects and third party plug-ins support.
• 8 taps pattern section with integrated mixer and plug-ins slots.
• 2 feedback loops with crossfeed and plug-ins slots.
• 25 built-in effects: EQ, filters, pitch & frequency shifter, delays, modulation effects, compressor, gate, bit crusher, wave shaper and more.
• Supports third party VST, VST3 and Audio Unit plug-ins, with latency compensation.
• Tempo/Host Synchronization.
• Global stereo spread control.
• Several hundreds of fully editable presets.
• Integrated ducking, with internal and external side chain.
• Comprehensive visual feedback with detailed impulse response display.
• Protect your ears with the included feedback and output brickwall limiters.
• No latency.

New features and improvements in Late Replies 1.5:

• New dual user interface: browse and quick-edit presets with the new easy mode, or create your own delays and reverb with the full editor.
• Up to 8 times more processing power with the new multicore engine that can process each reply on a separate core.
• New echoes and ping pong delay presets with effects.
• New DSP workload meter that displays the DSP activity and CPU load.
• Added MIDI control support (MIDI CC messages) for Next and Previous
• Preset commands, with MIDI learn.
• Reduced time to load Late Replies or any built-in plug-in.
• Multiple DSP performance improvements.
• Level meters and spectrum analyzers are not updated anymore when the user interface is closed, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced the number of threads used by the plug-in.
• Improved global and preset settings window loading time on Windows.
• Added ability to select the plug-in to load when a shell plug-in file is dragged and dropped onto a slot.
• Full unicode support.
• Preset files can now be dropped onto the preset LCD area to be loaded.
• Smoother loops Freeze when quickly switched from 0 to 100%.

Compatibility:

• Native Apple Silicon (M1 processor) support.
• Dropped 32-bit support on Mac.
• Now requires MacOS 10.9 and newer.

Fixes:

• Fixed host loop end value not properly passed to hosted plug-ins, for the VST2 version.
• Fixed several crashes upon load for multiple third party plug-ins (mostly VST3).
• Fixed MIDI control for hosted plug-ins not always working when fed with silence.
• Fixed VST3 (and sometimes VST) version freezing Ableton Live upon save on Windows.
• Fixed harmonizer and Pitch Shifter built-in plug-ins that did not always flush their buffer upon bypass (short sounds could be heard when getting out of bypass)