“A fully playable electro-mechanical synth voice that tracks the pitch of your playing in real time”: Gamechanger Audio unveils the Motor Pedal – a real synth pedal with a “multi-modal gas pedal”

Gamechanger Audio Motor Pedal: this pedal has a racing car aesthetic and houses "a fully playable electro-mechanical synth voice that tracks the pitch of your playing in real time".

We are accustomed to seeing something weird, unusual, something brilliant coming out of Gamechanger Audio. This is the company that housed a Bigbsy-inspired polyphonic pitch-shifter in a stompbox. But it has just launched a synth pedal that is up there among its most out-there designs.

It is called the Motor Pedal, and it’s not so much a synth pedal as it is a synth-in-a-pedal. Just listen to the demo video below. This is a performance friendly synth pedal (just wait till you here what’s going with that treadle pedal) in which, under the hood, there’s an actual electromechanical synthesizer that takes the signal from, say, an electric guitar, tracks it and renders it as a synth sound.