Newfangled Recirculate

What Recirculate Is For

Recirculate is a creative feedback delay plugin designed to add depth, stereo relief, and rhythmic movement to your productions. It excels on vocals (clean, ducked, and clear echo), guitars (textured repetitions), synths (wide and modulated ping-pong), as well as drums and percussion, where its polyrhythmic approach generates bounces that lock the groove without saturating the space.
Rather than imitating specific vintage hardware, Recirculate aims for a more useful studio goal: giving you directly audible controls to sculpt repetitions that become an integral part of the arrangement. Ideal for modern pop, electro, hip-hop, techno, ambient, scoring, and any context where the echo must be both rhythmic and characterful.

Main Features

Polyrhythm: control of the "first echo"

The core of Recirculate is its dual time management: you can set the initial delay (first echo) independently from the repetition times. Result: patterns that alternate downbeats and upbeats, subtle shuffles (e.g., first echo on the beat, repetitions dotted), or clear offbeats (e.g., first echo eighth note, repetitions quarter note). This simple idea opens a huge field to create delays that "dance" with the track, without complex automation.

Delay modes: from classic to sound design

Recirculate offers several behaviors to adapt texture to the musical context: from clean and reliable Standard, to Ping Pong for an animated stereo image, through Pitch Warp for repetitions that twist and transform, and a Granular mode for fragmented, more experimental echoes. It's an excellent way to go from a simple slapback to a signature effect without changing tools.

Timing options: musical or surgical

To stay locked on the session, you quickly sync times in note values, steps, or milliseconds. This flexibility is perfect for modern productions: groove locked in sync, or micro-shifts in ms to create depth and rhythmic tension.

Sculpt your place in the mix: filters, transients, and dynamics

Recirculate includes high cut and low cut filters with "morphable" shape control to precisely carve the useful frequency range: brighten a vocal delay, darken guitar repetitions, or prevent bass buildup. The transient designer then lets you preserve the attack for a percussive echo or smooth it for more diffuse pads.
To keep the effect present without masking the source, you have a very effective dynamic trio: built-in compressor, ducker (delay fades when the dry signal plays then rises between phrases), and gate for shorter, more rhythmic repetitions. Ideal when the arrangement is busy and you want a "pro" delay that's clear and controlled.

Heaps of character: texture, noise, modulation, reverb

Each repetition passes again through the character section, amplifying personality over feedback. Recirculate combines 7 character options and 4 noise options (a total of 28 combinations) to color the echo: grain, density, attitude, and that feeling of repetitions that "live". Add modulation, a touch of drive, and you get a delay that can stay elegant... or become boldly expressive.
The built-in reverb ranges from light diffusion (to thicken the echo without smearing it) to wider, enveloping tails. It's especially effective when applied to repetitions: the space builds progressively without turning your dry track into a permanent fog.

Soundstage and integration: width, depth, and Dry FX

To work the space, Recirculate offers soundstage controls like Chorus, Spread, XFeed, and Granular Spray. These tools allow placing the echo behind the source, widening without harshness, or creating a moving stereo field. Finally, the Dry FX function lets you inject some character and tone onto the dry signal: handy to "glue" the effect to the performance and give immediate coherence between dry and wet.

Technical specifications

Type

Full software

Downloadable

Yes

Mac	macOS 10.14 and later (Intel and Apple Silicon)	Transient Designer	control of repetition transients to avoid clutter
Windows	Windows 10 and later	Dynamics	built-in Compressor, Ducker, and Gate
Simple Yet Deep	creation of simple or complex rhythmic echoes with intuitive handling	Character Section	28 combinations of character and noise
Dual Time Control	independent management of initial delay and repetitions	Reverb	from lightly diffused repetitions to wider tails
Flexible Delay Behaviors	Standard, Pitch Warp, Ping Pong, Granular modes	Soundstage	Chorus, Spread, XFeed, Granular Spray
Sync	precise alignment via note values, steps, or milliseconds	Dry FX	applying character and tone on the dry signal
Filters	high cut and low cut with morphable shape control