Low End Candy has announced Slingshot, a reverse delay plug-in that puts echoes ahead of a sound rather than after it. The idea is straightforward: instead of manually printing a delay tail, flipping it, and dragging it backward on the timeline every time your tempo or arrangement changes, Slingshot handles the whole process as a live effect inside the host DAW.

The plug-in offers two core operating modes. In ALIGNED mode, Slingshot reports the echo lead-in as latency so the echo train lands precisely before the transient. LIVE mode drops the latency to zero for real-time monitoring while tracking. A CAPTURE function lets users print the lead-in as a trimmed WAV file, padded to a bar, ready to drop onto the grid.

Feature-wise, Slingshot includes six delay characters (Clean, Tape, Analog, Diffuse, Ping-Pong, and Filtered), three tap modes (FWD, REV, and GRAIN), independent PITCH and FORMANT controls, a built-in LFO with eight modulation targets, and DRIVE, STEREO, and reverb effects. A live spectrogram display shows the swell forming in real time. The plug-in ships with 33 factory presets and a randomization button that leaves timing and filter settings untouched.

Slingshot is a companion to the company’s earlier Preverb plug-in, with the key distinction being that Preverb creates a smeared reverse reverb wash while Slingshot produces discrete stacked echoes with feedback control. Version 1.9.0 is available now as AU and VST3 for macOS and VST3 for Windows, priced at $49 USD for a lifetime license. A bundle with Preverb is available for $70 USD at lowendcandy.com.