BLEASS Tides

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.

Input Filter

Applies low-pass and high-pass filtering to the input signal.

Drag the nodes in the filter graph, or adjust the dials below the graph, to adjust the cutoff frequency and resonance of each band.

Tides Visualization

This panel provides a lightweight spectral readout of the sounds entering and being produced by BLEASS Tides.

The incoming signal's spectrum is represented by white dots, and repeats are represented by light blue dots.

Touching or clicking on the visualization activates a frequency shifter within the feedback path (note that this is independent of the optional Frequency Shifter insert processor). 

• Clicking on the left side of the visualisation produces a negative frequency shift.
• Clicking on the right side of the visualisation produces a positive frequency shift.
• The further from the visualisation’s centre that you touch/click, the larger the frequency shift.
• The frequency shift updates as you drag your finger or mouse across the panel.
• This means you can interactively adjust the frequency shift in realtime.
• Release the mouse button to disable the frequency shifter.

Inertia

Inertia governs the time it takes for any change in delay time to be applied, as well as the way in which the change will be applied.

Crossfade applies a volume crossfade between repeats of different lengths when the delay time changes. The Inertia dial determines the length of the crossfade

Tape applies a tape-style slow-down or speed-up in response to delay time changes. The Inertia dial determines the rate at which the (virtual) tape speed changes.

Time

Use the main Time dial to set the desired delay time.

In Free mode, the delay time is set in terms of milliseconds and seconds.

In Sync mode, the delay time is synchronised to your DAW or host software, and set in terms of note divisions (I.E. 1/4 = crotchet, 1/8 = quaver, etc.).

The Offset dial modifies the selected delay time. This is particularly useful when you want repeats to be synchronised to the beat in a natural, non-robotic way.

Ping Pong

When Ping Pong is enabled, successive repeats alternate between two channels, with the stereo spread of those channels controlled by the Ping Pong dial. 

In Classic mode, the overall number of repeats created is the same as when Ping Pong is disabled.

In Symmetric mode, each channel produces the same number of repeats as when Ping Pong is disabled, resulting in twice the number of repeats overall.

Feedback

Determines how much signal is fed back to the beginning of the delay processor.

Higher values result in more repeats being produced.

A setting of 100% will repeat indefinitely.

Freeze

When this momentary button is pressed, the current delay signal is held and repeated, and the incoming signal does not create any new echoes.

Kill

Press this momentary button to instantly mute the delayed signal and reset the delay processor.

Once released, delay processing will resume in the normal way.