BLEASS Megalit €99
BLEASS’ product line continues to grow, and Megalit is their most adventurous release by far and could be the sonic wrangler you need
BLEASS Megalit follows a conventional subtractive ethos that feels immediately familiar and comfortable: three oscillators, noise generator, low- and high-pass filters, a pile of modulation options, all rounded off with some effects and processing. So there’s nothing here that will leave you puzzled, but there are innovative ideas, exquisite execution, and an awful lot of timbre-wrangling potential.
The first hint of that potential comes from Megalit’s pair of wavetable oscillators. These offer a voluminous selection of over 120 wavetables encapsulating a vast swathe of waveforms, so with this alone you have a vast trove of tones and timbres to exploit. But the waveforms within the wavetables can themselves be varied substantially using the oscillators’ Fold function. This compresses the waveform whilst inserting silence to maintain the wavelength/pitch. With modulation applied to the wavetable position and fold, some beautifully expressive and original tones can be created.