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I plan on doing a review of Bazille, but for now let me mention a couple of things.1. The phase modulation. My very first synth was a Casio CZ-1 I got at a garage sale 20 years ago. So I spent man hours mastering that machine, through that classic late-80s user-hostile digital synth interface.
Bazille's phase modulation is an interesting take on that. The CZ architecture was a lot simpler -- you had 2 phase mod oscillators that you could, as I recall, do some cross modulation, but mostly you used envelopes to modulate the phase distortion and that was it.
Bazille does Phase Distortion, but in a four-oscillator, almost infinitely modifiable way.
2. Fractal modulation. As you increase Fractal modulation it sounds a bit like you're opening a filter, but weird.
3. The sequencer -- I don't get it at all. It only seems to run if a note is playing, even if you set it to free run. I can't get it to run at really slow rates. And the thing with it triggering envelopes is bizarro.
On the other hand, you can wire up a bunch of things to the sequencer output taps, set the envelopes to trigger from the sequencer, change the sequencer sliders, and off you go. It's like the difference between going to a retail store and a thrift shop. If you go to a store, you can find what you're looking for. If you go to a thrift shop, you can find cool things but you don't know what they'll be until you find them.
This patch below just does random, crazy-ass, harsh, crazy stuff. It's fun!
http://cornwarning.com/xfer/Sequenced%20mayhem.h2p (http://cornwarning.com/xfer/Sequenced%20mayhem.h2p)
, but everything is explained in the manual, starting on page 31. BTW to get very slow synchronized sequences, set the mode to "Notes" and change the Tap Speed Factor to e.g. 16.