TINRS Bopp & Steve

Bopp & Steve from This Is Not Rocket Science is a cosmic combination of multiple spatial effects, taking your tones on a journey into strange lands with comprehensive implementations of reverb, delay, and pitch shifting. With a stereo audio path, Bopp & Steve first diffuses your signal to create stereo width, before being fed into a multimode pre-delay. Between ping-pong, a waveguide Karplus-Strong style short delay, and a multitap algorithm, Bopp & Steve gives you tons of varied effects in its delay section, with tap tempo and CV control over all major parameters. This delay line is then fed to the tails section, which creates lush reverberation effects in three modes, including a granular reverb in Float mode. Bopp & Steve provides a generous assortment of CV and physical controls over these effects, with freezing, timbral shaping, and final mix control all available to be tweaked with CV.

Where Bopp & Steve really starts to leave the stratosphere is in its flexible pitch shifting section. Using the pitch point button, you can change where in the signal chain the pitch shifting occurs, enabling a wide variety of effects from shimmer reverb to spiraling pitch shifted delays. The pitch shifter also features a 3.5mm TRS MIDI input, which can be used to affect the target pitch of the shifter for exciting possibilities in the studio or on stage. This is especially useful thanks to the shifter's three modes, which allow you to shift pitch in unquantized (free), chromatic (regular), or even chordal modes. In chord mode, up to three notes at a time can be set with the MIDI input or using the Control CV input to set a chord type. These sounds are distributed around the stereo space, providing a unique effect brimming with creative potential that sounds fantastically warm and rich.

Named after the Hale-Bopp comet and the Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement aurora phenomenon, Bopp & Steve doesn't disappoint its cosmic namesakes, providing an incredibly flexible and otherworldly suite of spatial effects. If you love experimenting with unique delay and reverb sounds, make sure you set your ship to wake you from hypersleep, because you won't want to miss Bopp & Steve from TINRS.

Bopp & Steve Features

• Stereo spatial multi-effects module with reverb, delay, and pitch shifting
• Stereo input and output
• Diffusion system adds stereo width with control over timbre and amount
• Multimode pre-delay with ping-pong, waveguide Karplus Strong style delay, and multitap modes
• Tail section adds reverb with multiple modes including granular Float mode
• CV and physical controls for all major parameters, including tap tempo, freeze effect, and final mix
• Pitch shifter with flexible signal placement using pitch point button
• 3.5mm TRS MIDI input controls shifted pitch with chromatic, unquantized, and chord modes
• Physical control and CV input for transposition and mode-specific Control parameter of pitch shifter
• Envelope follower output follows dry input signal