Gamechanger Audio announces Motor Pedal, a single-motor synth pedal

September 17, 2025 · 4 sources

Gamechanger Audio announced the Motor Pedal, a synth pedal built around a single brushed DC motor, on September 17, 2025, according to Guitar Pedal X¹. The pedal reduces the company's Motor Synth, which uses eight motors as its oscillator core, to one replaceable motor¹.

The motor turns at up to 450 revolutions per second, which the report gives as 1.35kHz at maximum speed, and a pitch tracker matches its rotational speed to the fundamental of the input signal in real time²¹. RockBoard's listing says the pedal tracks guitar, bass, synth or voice². Guitar Pedal X puts the motor's typical lifespan at between 3,000 and 8,000 hours of continuous use and says it is slotted in for quick replacement¹. Guitar.com, reporting on October 3, 2025, gives a figure of 3,000 to 5,000 hours attributed to Gamechanger Audio, and says a replacement motor block is set to cost under $30³. The two ranges differ.

The five engines are Motor (raw electromagnetic pickup of the spinning coils), MXD (cross-modulation of the motor with a digital waveform), M-Wave (a pitch-locked digital oscillator), Coil (alternating current injected into the motor's coils) and a 24-band Vocoder²¹. The spring-loaded foot controller has five modes: Accelerator, Brake, Clutch, Drift and Volume²¹. Controls include Shift for pitch intervals, Modulation for cross-modulation amount, Release for envelope speed, Clean for dry level, Motor for effect volume, Tone as a tilt EQ and Drive for analog distortion¹⁴.

Connections are Track In and Out, In and Out on TS, MIDI In on DIN, USB-C and 9 to 12V DC at 500mA¹. RockBoard lists the circuit as analog and the voltage as 12V DC, center negative². Guitar Pedal X gives dimensions of 180mm by 100mm by 80mm¹.

Guitar Pedal X reported pre-orders open, with three editions and the other two at $399¹. Gearnews, writing in April 2025, reported a presale price of $299 from April 15 to April 30, 2025, after which the pedal would cost $379, with shipping in June 2025⁴.