OPFXS Debuts the Asteroide Sampler & Harmonizer

May 15, 2020 · 1 sources

OPFXS announced the Asteroide, its take on the sampler and harmonizer stompbox. The pedal samples and loops a section of the player's signal and adds two harmonics and a lower octave, producing what the maker describes as a "freezing with harmonizing effect that creates organ-like droney chords from a single note"¹.

The Asteroide can also be used as a looper, and it offers a Dual Mode: the player samples two notes, which are then played back at the same time as a chord, with both running through the same multi-octave effect circuit¹.

Delicious Audio, reporting on the launch¹

Operation is handled by two footswitches:

• SAMPLE: pushed once to sample a note, or long pressed to sustain the sampled note indefinitely¹
• BYPASS: erases the sampled note or notes and puts the pedal in bypass mode¹

The Asteroide sits alongside OPFXS's other compact effect pedals, such as the V-Uno, and its octave and pitch shifting places it in the same family as octave and pitch pedals and looping pedals already on players' boards¹.