To add it depend on what your trying to achieve with the delay. There's actually a few ways to take a mono track and send it flying all over the place, Bins, Busses copy tracks. Each will give different results and each will offer varing amounts of control.
As said most delay plug ins are mono to stereo and have at least 2 delay lines. To me this is the easiest way to have a different delay in the left and right because you should have all the controls you need built in to the Plug in.
The Sonitus is a good one for this and what I do is set it to grab the timing from the songs tempo.
Now it's a simple matter of changing the delay note value, say left side is a 1/4 note and right side 1/2 note.
There's even controls so these can be hard left and right or blended. You can adjust the feedback for each side and the wet/dry everything is there.