Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

[kramersteen]

I have been watching some demos and reviews and i can really see myself having fun with this pedal. It seems to have everything i love about the roland guitar synths without the ****ty alternate pickup. Just the fact it uses the guitars pickups makes it miles better.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

I am curious, too. I don't mind the Roland pickup, but I also have a built in one in my Brian Moore guitar. I like some of the demos of weirdo sounds. I think I might miss some of the string synth pads of my current guitar synth, though.

 

[Sirion]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

I bought one last year, but owing to a slightly chaotic living situation I haven't had much chance to fiddle with it yet.

When I can say is that it works flawlessly, in that there is no delay. I ran into some problems with polyphonic passages, but I think it worked well with three or fewer notes. I think it started "swallowing" notes if I tried more, but others might have better luck.

This should be familiar to most people interested by now, but in case not, I should add that this comes with a trade-off: the unit can't fire samples, be connected to other synths etc., because it never changes your signal into midi. What comes out is rather a manipulation of your guitar signal. In other words, you can forget about trying to get a realistic piano tone out of it, unless you are way better at programming synths than I am! For more, well, abstract sounds, it sounds quite good.

I rather like the sounds it can make, though, and look forward to trying to integrate it into my playing.

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

Yeah i pretty much figured all that. I might have to make the effort ot get to a store to try it first. I just mostly want fat saw tooth sounds and the blues harp.

THe blues harp would be perfect for video game inspired music.

 

[Sirion]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

It should do saw tooth very well. Some have criticized the synth sounds for being somewhat primitive and 80s sounding, but I wonder (1) how deep into the unit commenters have dug, and (2) why that is supposed to be a bad thing.

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

It should do saw tooth very well. Some have criticized the synth sounds for being somewhat primitive and 80s sounding, but I wonder (1) how deep into the unit commenters have dug, and (2) why that is supposed to be a bad thing.

Yeah HA! that's what i was hoping for. I don't want a 100 ambient sounds i just want a few convincing power metal keyboard style leads.

This sort of sound would be good. I think it would get close to it.

 

[Sirion]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

I would say that you, with some work, should be able to get 90-95% of that sound. It doesn't sound like something hugely complex.

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

I would say that you, with some work, should be able to get 90-95% of that sound. It doesn't sound like something hugely complex.

Sweetbix what i need now is $600 i might have to save for this one as my drone hobby is expensive.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

Yeah HA! that's what i was hoping for. I don't want a 100 ambient sounds i just want a few convincing power metal keyboard style leads.

See, I am the opposite. I want the 100 ambient sounds. When I don't use my guitar synth for this, I do it with pitch transposers and multi-delays.

 

[Sirion]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

Unsurprisingly, it should be able to do ambient sounds as well. Basically anything that doesn't fire samples, and can be programmed using relatively simple wave forms. If one needed it, I am sure that one could get a decent processed clean tone out of it as well.

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

See, I am the opposite. I want the 100 ambient sounds. When I don't use my guitar synth for this, I do it with pitch transposers and multi-delays.

Yeah when i had my synth setup i loved getting off chops and just playing around with all the sounds.

I'm going to get one of these i think it would be perfect for me.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

I'd love a weekend without responsibilities and that pedal. I'd have a great time. That would probably be enough for me.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

It looks like I have some videos to watch. Between these pedals and the EH synthy ones, I am digging the note-extraction from a polyphonic signal. It will be exciting to see where this leads.

 

[Sirion]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

I am curious, too. I don't mind the Roland pickup, but I also have a built in one in my Brian Moore guitar. I like some of the demos of weirdo sounds. I think I might miss some of the string synth pads of my current guitar synth, though.

I just reread this. I think that as long as these are pads, rather than supposedly 'authentic' sounding string patches, I think you should be able to get close with this unit.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Has anyone here tried the Boss SY-300

I just reread this. I think that as long as these are pads, rather than supposedly 'authentic' sounding string patches, I think you should be able to get close with this unit.

That's good for me. I don't need authentic string sounds (I actually prefer 70s-style Solina sounds), so there is a chance it might work for me.