BOP-1

• Music plays the moment you switch on, and the white keys stay in a pentatonic scale so nothing sounds wrong.
• Eight friends cover sine, flute, saw lead, square robot, bass, bell, resonant pluck and noise, each drawn as a character.
• The Lab gives two oscillators, a low, band and high pass filter, envelope, LFO, arpeggiator, glide, echo, reverb and bit-crush.
• REC is Loop me: what you play on keys and pads goes round over the song in time.
• Make records four layers of Beats, Bass, Tune and Sparkle into parts A B C D, chained into a song.
• SAVE keeps the song in eight places, stores Lab sounds as My Friends, and the playing song returns after switching off.
• USB and TRS MIDI input play the friend and the drum pads, with clock in or out and keys sent to a computer.

Its modes

Play

Press white keys to sing in the scale and black keys for drums while a song plays along.

Make

Build a song from four layers, sixteen steps, and parts A B C D chained over chords.

Lab

Shape a real subtractive synth with two oscillators, filter, envelope, LFO, arpeggiator and effects.

Lessons

Work through ten short picture lessons, each with a try-it the firmware checks.

Games

Play six listening and playing games that earn stars.

The sticker book

See the friends, styles and lesson stars you have collected.

The grown-ups' page

Set which doors show, the volume cap, lights, sleep timer, MIDI and resets.