Description

The Pitch Magpie is a delay-based polyphonic pitch shifter. Its three modes each integrate a different effect into the pitch shifter, allowing a huge range of sounds from only a handful of controls. It can be anything from a subtle random vibrato to a resonant lowpass on the verge of oscillation, and that’s before you add sparkling pitch shifting into the mix. Compared to “warble” of monophonic pitch shifters, the Magpie has more of a “shimmer”.

The user manual can be found at this link. It’s written in a similar style to our blog, and we really recommend giving it a look to get the most out of the pedal.

The dry path is all analog and totally transparent. The pedal also features a soft-touch footswitch and our “flexible” true bypass switching. And as with our other pedals, the Pitch Magpie uses a small 1590B enclosure with top-mount jacks. That takes up less space on a board than some “mini” pedals!

As of June 2025, the Pitch Magpie now comes stock with an external toggle switch to select the destination of the expression input (Pitch or Param). This replaces the internal jumper found on earlier pedals. The toggle is on the side of the pedal, next to the expression jack.