BLEASS Tides

Name: BLEASS Tides
Price: 39 USD
Author: BLEASS

by BLEASS · Delay · Modulated creative delay

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BLEASS Tides is a creative delay with fluid time changes, 11 feedback insert effects and stereo modulation.

It runs as a VST3, AU or AAX plugin on Windows and macOS for $39, with a separate iOS version.

Best for: Keys & Synths, Guitars, Vocals. Genres: Electronic & EDM, Ambient & Cinematic, Pop.

Keywords: creative, freeze, pitch-shifting, synths, vocals, classic, bitcrush, electric guitar, mixing, AAX, AUv3/iOS, beginner-friendly, destructive, evolving, experimental, lo-fi, macro controls, ping-pong, ring mod, simple, smooth, sound design, spectral, tape, visual feedback.

What it does

BLEASS Tides is a stereo delay built for sound design, with smooth delay-time changes, input filtering and a chain of effects inside the feedback loop. Each repeat passes through the effects again, so echoes can distort, shift and crumble as they fade.

Delay engine: stereo delay with time and inertia controls, a ping-pong mode (classic or symmetric), and crossfade or tape-style behaviour when the delay time changes.
Input filters: low-pass and high-pass filters with cutoff and resonance shape what enters the delay.
Feedback effects: 11 effect types across five slots in the feedback loop: multi-type distortion, dust (random digital noise), bit-crusher, frequency shifter, pitch shifter, ring modulator, delay, high-pass, low-pass and band-pass filters, and a peak filter.
Modulation: three multi-wave LFOs with phase and offset, two envelope followers and two macros, each able to drive four destinations.
Performance: momentary Freeze and Kill buttons, plus a spectral visualizer.

A trial is available.

Source: BLEASS product page

When to use it

BLEASS Tides focuses on the effects chain inside the feedback loop: with five slots of distortion, bit-crushing, pitch and frequency shifting and filters, each repeat changes as it circulates. In spirit it sits closer to Timeless 3, a deep modulated delay with flexible filters, than to EchoBoy and Galaxy Tape Echo, which model vintage echo hardware, or Valhalla Delay, which covers many classic delay types at a low price. The modulation matrix and the Freeze and Kill buttons make it a performance tool as much as a mixing delay. It is not trying to sound like a tape or analog unit, so for classic echoes the rated vintage-style delays are a better fit.

Best for: evolving, degrading or pitch-shifted repeats and live freeze moves on synths, guitars and vocals.
Genres: electronic, ambient, experimental and pop.
Look elsewhere if: you want classic tape or analog echo; EchoBoy, Galaxy Tape Echo or Valhalla Delay fit better.

What producers say

Coverage so far is light, but the reception is positive.

Synth Anatomy (2025, updated 2026) found it "incredibly easy to use and fun to experiment with" and praised the range of sound mangling.
Criticisms: the same writer felt some presets push to excessive extremes.

Synth Anatomy article

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