Lyric-Aware Delay

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Lyric-Aware Delay is a vocal-first delay plugin designed to preserve lyric intelligibility.

Instead of relying only on conventional ducking, it uses lightweight audio-feature analysis (envelope followers, transient detection, high-frequency ratio, and event density) to make subtle automatic delay adjustments in real time.

Consonant Protect reduces delay around consonants and vocal attacks.
Phrase Tail Boost gently opens up phrase endings and tails.
Fast Phrase Control helps reduce blur in dense or fast vocal passages.

Designed for "out of the way" vocal delay rather than exaggerated effects.

Main features:
- Delay Time (ms / tempo sync)
- Feedback / Mix
- Wet-only HPF / LPF
- Stereo Width
- Lyric-Aware controls (Protect / Tail / Sensitivity / Response)
- A/B compare + factory presets.

Formats / Platform:
- macOS
- AU / VST3
- Universal Binary (Apple Silicon + Intel).

This is an MVP release focused on a usable vocal workflow.
No AI speech/phoneme recognition, sidechain, or ARA in this version.