The brilliant Didzis Dubovskis, Ilja Krumins, Kristaps Kalva, Martins Melkis and the rest of the folks at Latvia’s Gamechanger Audio has unleashed the Motor Pedal. A guitar pedal that plays along with your guitar using a DC motor.
Gamechanger Audio Motor Pedal
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The Gamechangers describe the Motor Pedal as a electro-mechanical synth, a motor harmonizer, a motor vocoder and a ring/xmod engine. The Motor pedal tracks the pitch of your guitar (or synth) playing in real time, so it can be used as a backing synth track, melodic doubler or a harmonizer. The Motor Pedal does not use DSP, it employs a brushed DC motor that can act like a drone generator to distort and process your instrument with x-mod and vocoder engines.
The Motor Pedal’s rotational speed is then precisely matched to the fundamental frequency that you are playing…
The Motor Pedal uses a real-time pitch tracker to analyze your instrument’s output whether you are using a guitar, a bass, or a microphone. The Motor Pedal’s rotational speed is then precisely matched to the fundamental frequency that you are playing. For example, to match a 440hz input tone, the motor will rotate at a corresponding speed of 146 revolutions per second. A carefully calibrated inductor captures the real-world motion of the motor’s spinning coils, transforming mechanical energy into a raw, electric audio signal.
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The Motor Pedal features five unique and powerful sound engines based on the motor core:
» Motor – raw electromagnetic pickup of the spinning coils. glitchy, growling, magnetic.
» MXD – cross-modulation of the motor with a digital waveform. creates harsh, distorted and metallic textures.
» M-Wave – a digital oscillator that’s pitch-locked & hard-synced to the motor’s output. a multitimbral synth with an imperfect mechanical soul.
» Coil Mode – instead of spinning the motor with dc voltage – we inject alternating current into the motor’s coils to create resonant analog vibrations & metallic hums. this is an innovative synthesis method that sounds like nostalgia on steroids.
» Vocoder Mode – a 24 band digital vocoder that uses the motor’s output as the carrier and your instrument’s output as the modulator. speak, sing, or shred directly through the machine.
Motor Pedal Features:
- Analog tone Boost – a powerful tilt eq for shaping the motor output
- Independent Volumes – sculpt raw motor output
- Motor Drive – sculpt raw motor output
- Envelope – shape your attacks, bends, and glides
- Portamento – shape your attacks, bends, and glides
- Vibrato – shape your attacks, bends, and glides
- Motor Interval Selector – allows you to offset the motor pitch: +/- 1 octave or perfect fifths or perfect fourths
- X-Mod mode – use amplitude modulation to cross-mod the input signal with all motor engines. offset engines
- The motor pedal comes equipped with a multi-mode gas pedal:
- Accelerator – create a wide range of controlled pitch-shift or floor it to redline the motor
- Brake – downward pitch-shift, or mash the pedal to bring the motor to a stall
- Clutch – temporarily disconnect the motor from the pitch-tracker – perfect for creating drones
- Volume – use the spring-loaded pedal to create satisfying volume swells
- Drift – play the pedal like a gentle vibrato arm, or just floor it to get a complete wipe-out
