BLEASS Tides

Ride the Waves of Delay

BLEASS Tides washes away the dry, uninspiring echoes of conventional delay processors with wave after wave of richly characterful reflections.

The plugin’s fluid approach to delay processing means delay times can be altered without the unpleasant warping results produced by other delay processors, with the option of a controlled tape-like timing shift, or a simple crossfade between differently timed delays.

Better still, with an enhanced modulation system provided by BLEASS’ latest plugin technology, you can take full advantage of this delay time fluidity with stereo LFOs, envelope followers and macro controllers that allow you to explore new horizons of exciting delay effects.

There’s more to creating unique and enthralling delay lines than timing alone, and so BLEASS Tides provides many different ways of shaping and adding character to its repeats.

An input filter combining low- and high-pass resonant bands allows you to easily mould the incoming signal and thereby sculpt the resulting echoes. Then, for even deeper and more exhilarating shaping, Tides’ feedback path features five insert points into which any of 11 different effect processors can be loaded. These include distortions, filters, pitch and frequency shifting, ring modulation, and even an additional delay processor, all of which can be brought to life with the plugin’s stereo modulators.

Tides is the first plugin to use BLEASS’ v2 plugin engine, its reimagined interface design giving a crisp and clean look to the plugin whilst retaining the familiar and welcoming look and feel of previous BLEASS plugins.

The new interface is as easy to use with touchscreens as it is with a mouse, and includes innovative interactive elements such as Tides’ delay visualiser that, when clicked with the mouse or touched with a finger, produces fascinating interactive frequency shifting effects. Further realtime interaction comes in the form of momentary Freeze and Kill buttons that are perfect for creating spontaneous, organic effects, whether on stage, on the go, or in the studio.

BLEASS Tides’ unique approach brings delay processing to new shores with never before heard stereo effects and modulations, extensive tonal shaping, and a user interface that’s both easy on the eye and easy to use.

Delay Tab

The Delay Tab of the BLEASS Tides plugin allows users to apply low-pass and high-pass filtering to the input signal, visualize the incoming and repeating sounds spectrally while interactively shifting frequencies, and adjust delay time, inertia, ping pong effects, feedback, and dry/wet balance, with options to freeze or kill the delay signal.

Feedback FXs Tab

The Feedback tab provides five insert slots for processing BLEASS Tides’ feedback signal. The impact of these processors accumulate across successive repeats.

Click on a slot to open a list of processors, and click the processor name to assign it to the slot. Enable or disable a loaded processor using its power button, and reposition it by simply dragging it to a new slot. Note that only one of each processor can be inserted.

The available processors are:

• Distortion
• Dust
• Bitcrush
• Frequency Shifter
• Pitch Shifter
• Ring Modulator
• Delay
• High Pass Filter, Low Pass Filter, Band Pass Filter
• Peak Filter

Routing Panel

Each of BLEASS Tides’ modulators can be routed to up to four destination parameters. The details of each routing is controlled from a modulator’s routing panel. This panel works identically for each modulator.

Macros Tab

BLEASS Tides features two Macro controllers that allow you modulate up to four parameters simultaneously from a single dial.

LFO Tabs

BLEASS Tides features three LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillators) for creating repeating, cyclic modulations.

Envelope Follower Tabs

BLEASS Tides includes two Envelope Follower modulators that produce envelope curves in response to transients in the incoming signal.

System Requirements

Windows:

• Windows 10 and later
• VST3 (64-bit) / AAX

Mac:

• macOS 10.9 and later (64-bit only) (including macOS 11 Big Sur and M1/M2 processors)
• VST3 (64-bit)
• Audio Unit
• AAX

Format:

• BLEASS Tides is not a standalone product, it requires a host software
• BLEASS Tides is compatible with all VST3 / Audio Unit / AAX compatible DAWs and supports M1/M2 Chips.