Hotone Freqlux Now Available to Preorder from Global Music Imports

Hotone has been on a serious run lately, and the new Hotone Freqlux might be one of its most interesting pedals yet.

Now available to preorder from Global Music Imports, the Freqlux is not just another pitch shifter. It is a deep, three-voice digital pitch shifting and harmonising pedal built for players who want to create huge harmonies, animated detuning, strange textures, gliding pitch movement, stereo width, and full MIDI-controlled madness from one compact unit.

A Pitch Pedal for Players Who Like to Go Further

The Freqlux is part of Hotone’s NeonGlow series, following the Verbera Convolution Reverb. It shares the same style of modern hardware platform, control layout, and connectivity, but this time the engine is focused entirely on pitch-based sound design.

At its core, Freqlux gives you three independent pitch voices, allowing you to build complex harmonies, detuned movement, octave effects, rhythmic pitch patterns, and wide stereo sounds. Each voice can be shaped with its own level, pan, tone, and attack controls, so you are not just stacking pitch sounds on top of each other. You can actually sculpt how each part sits in the overall effect.

More Than a Harmoniser

Freqlux includes multiple pitch modes, including:

✓ PolyShift
✓ KeyTrack
✓ Detune
✓ ARP
✓ Mod Only

That means it can cover traditional harmonies and pitch shifting, but also move into chorus-like detuning, rhythmic arpeggiated pitch effects, ambient movement, and experimental sound design. Add in modulation, delay, drive, feedback, and trail options, and you end up with a pedal that can go from practical to completely unhinged pretty quickly.

AudioTechnology described the Freqlux as “far from your typical harmoniser or pitch-shifter” and called it a “pitch shifter on steroids”, noting its ability to create effects that feel unusual, inspiring, and different from the usual pedalboard options.

Built for Modern Rigs

This is where Freqlux becomes especially interesting for players running more advanced setups.

The pedal features stereo input and output, MIDI in and MIDI thru, expression pedal control, USB connectivity, preset management, firmware updates, and software-based editing via Hotone companion software. It also includes 100 factory presets with 200 preset slots in total for storing and recalling your own sounds.

For live players, the dual footswitch layout allows preset navigation, effect activation, and real-time performance control. The dedicated Flux footswitch can trigger automatic gliding pitch shifts, with adjustable glide curves for smooth rises, drops, and expressive pitch movement.

In other words, this is not just a pedal you turn on and forget. It is built to be played.

Why We’re Excited About It

Freqlux feels like one of those pedals that can be used in very different ways depending on the player.

For guitarists, it can create massive harmonies, octave layers, faux synth lines, strange bends, chorus-like textures, and ambient pitch trails.

For bassists, it can add width, movement, octave effects, and controlled harmonic layers without turning the low end into a mess.

For synth players, producers, and experimental musicians, it opens up a serious bag of pitch-based tricks that can be controlled, automated, and pushed into more unusual territory.

And for players already using MIDI-controlled rigs, switchers, modelers, loopers, or backing-track systems, the MIDI implementation makes Freqlux a very serious performance tool.

Available to Preorder Now

The Hotone Freqlux Pitch Modulation Pedal is now available to preorder from Global Music Imports for $549 AUD.

If you are after a normal “set and forget” pitch pedal, Freqlux may be more than you need.

But if you want a modern pitch machine that can handle harmonies, detune, stereo movement, MIDI control, glides, delay-style textures, and experimental sounds that do not feel like everything else on your board, this one is absolutely worth a look.

Preorder the Hotone Freqlux now from Global Music Imports or contact your local dealer, music store or rep