Basil, from Bastl, is a stereo timebased effect module that runs on their Pizza platform (if you own a Pizza you can turn it into Basil via a firmware update).

It is, capable of traditional delay and echo sounds as you might expect, but through its wide ranging controls, CV, and a selection of parameters which modify the behavior of the two delay lines you can find chorus, flanging, comb filtering, pseudo reverbs, lofi effects and more and all in stereo.

In this video I've aimed for the first part to act as a kind of video manual going over each of the features in turn. That's followed by a number of example patches which can hopefully show the module in context, showing some of its versatility.

Basil is a module with a lot of hidden depth, so this video is, predictably, pretty long. To help you navigate to the material you're interested in, I've added extensive chapter markers so feel free to jump around to find the info and sounds you're after.

Transparency notice: the Basil module was provided to me by Bastl for free for the purposes of making content about it. I was not otherwise paid and Bastl did not request, nor were they given any editorial oversight.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:34 I/O
00:02:37 Introducing the front panel (and a note about CV control)
00:03:47 Delay Knob (Time Mode)
00:05:39 Speed Control (Delay Range and Fidelity)
00:08:44 Delay Knob (Stereo Mode)
00:10:29 Delay Knob (Fine Mode)
00:11:28 Sync Input
00:12:35 How "Fine" affects a synced delay
00:13:55 Feedback Knob
00:15:42 Feedback Knob (PingPong Delay)
00:17:03 Wet/Dry Contol
00:17:46 Freeze Control
00:18:44 Delay Knob in Freeze Mode (Time Travel!)
00:19:28 Range Control in Freeze Mode
00:21:02 The effect of Sync on the Freeze function
00:23:37 Lofi Mode what is it? (Antialiasing filters explained)
00:25:24 Lofi Mode how does it sound?
00:30:13 Space Control (and HyperSpace mode)
00:30:49 HyperSpace Mode (using all the Space at once)
00:31:55 Space Modes: Blur (diffusion and pseudo reverb)
00:36:49 Space Modes: Filter
00:38:24 Space Modes: Taps
00:39:48 Combining Space Modes (HyperSpace!)
00:42:01 CV Control Delay V/oct
00:47:05 CV Control Feedback
00:50:27 CV Control Space
00:53:34 Ctrl Assignable CV
00:54:14 Ctrl Time
00:55:03 Ctrl Stereo
00:56:00 Ctrl Fine
00:57:43 Ctrl Wet Dry
01:00:13 Ctrl Feedback
01:01:07 Ctrl Range (Beautiful glitch madness!)
01:03:35 Ctrl Freeze
01:05:37 Ctrl Lofi
01:06:25 Ctrl Space
01:07:35 Ctrl HyperSpace
01:10:56 Example Patch Lush Stereo Chorus, Flanger and Vibrato
01:21:13 Example Patch Beautiful Echos
01:27:12 Example Patch Lofiizer
01:30:29 Example Patch Comb Filter
01:37:40 Example Patch Destructive Looping

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