Boss SY-300 Guitar Synthesizer Effects Pedal Demo w/Tom Quayle
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- Watch Tom Quayle and Mark Harley of Boss UK demo the awesome SY-300 Guitar Synthesizer.
Can it track Tom's speed? Watch the video and let us know what you think in the comments!
Recorded at Sound Affects Music Studios
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Wow, some of those patches are great! Good review, and awesome playing as always Tom!
Outstanding playing!
It really makes the difference and therefore compliments when a demonstrator can play more than just chords.
Great demo, the best on this subject, with incredible playing by Tom, Thx.
Brilliant, Roland adopted radio "seek" to save us from patch select button tedium. :). Nice to see Tom Quayle demo. Thanks guys. -Daniel
great demo thnx.
Well done! Beautiful hands you got there mate! Looks like the beginning of the end for the hex pickup system starting now aye?
@7:22 This might be the greatest feature on any pedal ever…
Best review
Is that tone he's getting with the full throttle lead coming from just that pedal and patch or is he using any other effects?
Hold on, 4:20, the chorus and reverb fade in before the pedal is switched on. How does that one work?
That lead patch is horrid at 1:55 hahaha I know you're showing the tracking but good lord. Great upload and thanks for expanding on some of the features.
It's pretty good
thank god finally a demo with a player that can really play well and takes the time to demo the functions of the product. Most demos have poor players and they don't take the time to show proper use of the device. The polyphonic tracking is just amazing I was about to buy a hex pick up and now i don't need one any more to access synth tones.. They have computer software for patch editing so you have have a big screen display for your patch editing.
Michael Abgelo Leone Thanks for the feedback. Glad you enjoyed the video. Please subscribe for more :-)
Is there any Pat Metheny type sounds, or sounds that are more sine waveform on them? I'm a synth guy, so it's kind of difficult to get an idea of how it would work from the perspective of someone who has owned synths like the Roland SH-101. This thing is driving me nuts, I'm trying to find it's flaws, but it sounds great, and seems to track perfectly. I have tons of questions like - what impact does the source tone have on the output? For example, if I use really thin strings will it still sound the same as if I used thicker strings? I think I would have to tinker with it. I want one bad though, but it's the money.
Casey Van Thanks for watching. We have definitely only scratched the surface with the SY-300. Creating your own sounds from the ground up will definitely appeal to those who have used traditional synthesizers.
The BOSS Tone Central website has a growing collection of artist created patches that you can listen to for more tones.
SoundAffectsOnline I viewed the original promo video on the Boss website, and it starts of with a nice Moog like sound based on a sine wave. I downloaded the manual, and it looks fairly good as far as having all the features that I would expect with a synth. It's obviously a user interface that is designed more for a guitarist, it just happens to be that I'm more used to working with analog synths, so it could be a learning curve for me.
Hello, can l use a Bass guitar
with the pedal to access app presets from
MODO Bass /Sampletank3/ iSem apps
thx
Mulling one so 🙏
Ιt has some impressive sounds but in all the videos I have watched, it does not seem to have some of the "standard" presets, other Roland guitar synths have, like piano, vibraphone, flute, sax, violin, etc. Maybe such sounds are not possible without a hexa pickup and a 13-pin plug-in ?
This unit isn’t a pitch to MIDI controller. The sounds you’re hearing on the Roland units with the hex pickup are samples just be triggered by the guitar.
I can't figure out what everyone thinks this is. I use mine for bass and it is totally awesome. Not something I use on every song, but I could. After all, who ever turns their sans amp DI off. This is touch sensitive and is very good at light fingers or slap hard fingers. I knew nothing of programming a synth but nothing better than sitting down and turning knobs. I have programmed some beautiful patches. Soft soothing to all out distortion and the limits are not to be found on what sounds you can get out of it. A lot of the pre-programed patches are garbage but on the user side you can totally experiment all day long. It's another pedal that costs $700 and does what a huge floor pedalboard cannot come near. I got friends that spend big bucks on fancy hand wired pedals that do just one thing. I run mine stereo through two amps and a dry signal to a third. 4X15's and 6X10's. I have yet to find an octave pedal that can track as low as this does and with zero latency and polyphonic and all with a 1/4" cable. It's not a GR-55 but it wasn't designed to be. Used together, they make an awesome combination and no need for any stomp boxes. It takes imagination to make this SY 300 shine.
+Jerry Porter Thanks for the input Jerry. Glad you like the product
Just my two cents. Too many expect something to be able to do everything great and there is nothing that does that. What the SY does, it does extremely well. Just as you have to learn how to play a guitar so do you have to learn how to play the SY. You have to think of it as an instrument itself. Not just a stompbox. I plan on adding the GR-55 later and hopefully I will be able to use something such as the Roland FC-300 or similar to make presets from both pedals.
Hi, can the pitch shifter handle -5 pitch shifting for Djent? Also, can you use just the pitch shift without any effects?
+stormyandcold .....It has 3 ossilators with 2 lfo's on each one. reading all the posts, majority of them haven't a clue what this pedal is. it's simply a 3 ossilator analog synthesizer and it will only put out what you program it to do. it definitely isn't a pnp instant awesome. it's take me a long time sitting in my music room turning knobs just to find out what affects what. you can run any configuration of ossilators you want. 0-1-2-or 3 ... you can add, delete effects pedals in it any way and combination you want. you can run straight signal and just use effects. each ossilator can pitch from straight to 2 octaves up or down. Run just the unit alone or add any desired level of straight guitar or bass blended in. So far I have ran 3 separate pitch shifts and straight normal at the same time. I've managed to program around 30 patches that are totally useable. I play bass and mostly stay away from synthesizer type settings. plugged my Tele into Mark Bass Mo Mark Black ran into my Eden DXST210 on top of matching 4X10. Sounded awesome on just the bass patches. Then plugged electric Fender acoustic and was amazed at the tone and sound. A couple of things it's not is a digital synth, it is not a modeling pedal. buy the GR-55 for that. it has midi but doesn't send digital to trigger another synth. it's used to run to a midi controller for selecting quick access patches. Inputs and outputs..
.. 1/4" input. polyphonic. tracking is dead on with no searching. Latency in nill. I can take a 2 octave down with straight and not a waver with open E. and I've only scratched the surface of what it is capable of
only for players that don't mind taking however long it takes to find what you want. If you don't want to learn how to program it, leave it alone and buy a distortion, delay, reverb, and whatever one effect pedal you normally use. Me? it opened up a level of creativity and inspiration in me I never knew I had.
Cheers, I have all that gear like GR55 and GP10 already. I use PC to program them so it's very easy. GP10 tuning/pitch-shifting I find is very good, but, there's still a little latency. This pedal sounds like it can do the pitch-shifting no problems. I try to stay away from whammy-type pitch-shifting as the tone is normally not very natural. I also use the Kemper "Transpose" effect which is very clean, but, the latency is noticeable which is a shame as I find it cleaner than GP10. Thanks for your help.
I have yet to see a single SY-300 demo where someone shows how to use this as an analog synth - i.e. to design sounds from the ground up using the oscillators. Closest I've seen is guys like you using the "blender". So ... if this is supposed to be an analog-like synth, why isn't there a single demo anywhere in which the analog features are demonstrated?
David Ziffer Hi David. A more in depth demo showcasing the actual synthesis is a great idea. The SY-300 is capable of so much but we decided to focus on presets and patches available on the Boss Tone Central for this video.
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I did a demo with this but it was hard to figure out. You have to design the more delicate adjustments like oscillators in the pc application after you plug it in if i'm not mistaken.
Will it produce piano/ organ sounds?
@@michaelwatson7071 No
Haven't even watched the video yet but "I do really fast legato", you don't have to say legato to be humble. LOL. Cool to see Tom trying this out.
This looks like a fun box if you have $700 to burn. It does track better than any GR33/GR55 with out the odd notes ,pop,boings, honks etc that the GRs do. And it does seem very programable. But in the end it still sounds like a Super Mario Bros pedal. Maybe if you want to impress your friends with noises from an old Pac Man or Space Invaders video game. Thanks for the demo, guys.
"One note" and "crazy" one are absolutely useless. "Dream Clean" was just amazing one.
Where did you steal that unit from?
Where in the chain do you place this? Front or fx loop?
Hi Luis, most people would put it at the front of chain
Fantastic.
I love seeing guitar players flip out over really basic synth patches lol. I see this every time I'm at a jam and it never gets any less hilarious
Great point. They might as well chuck that $2000 tube amp because they just went 100% digital. What a waste.
+Led ZeppelinFan it's analog. I know friends that have $2,500+ digital pedalboards in front of $2,000 tubes, too. I've never understood that.
FYI: It's got a parallel buffered output. Theoretically, you run your amp as you normally would and run this on separate inputs in the mix.
One mans tasteless is another mans tasty.
aside from being 1/4 inch for those too lazy to go 13pin there is way better stuff out ther. the fisman triple play is great and the GP10 tracks great giving you access to the LATEST synth sounds not some old cheesy 80s recreations that dont ever seem to have glide functionality which makes a huge difference
There is no tracking. The audio you hear is the same audio from your guitar albeit heavily transformed and morphed. It's a synth in the traditional sense of a synth e.g. oscillators and filters etc.
Is it possible to play sounds of an external sound module like the integra-7 with the SY-300 by using midi output? Thanks for help
julienthomas14 No, it doesn't convert guitar to MIDI
Gk pickup sucks to install much prefer this tech no midi pickup needed nice
I dont really care for the sounds but i would like to try it as a midi controller to use with my vst instruments my older roland took a dump and it wasnt good enouch either
I don't think it converts to midi
Well, this might be semantics, but it's not "tracking" anything, really is it? There is no analog-to-digital conversion, so as long as there's enough voltage to trigger the unit to make noise - it should "track" as fast as anyone can play. Just like an analog synth, the PUPs are producing a voltage at each fret that triggers the oscillators to make noise. You blend 1-2-3 of them together like a '70s Mini-Moog or similar, then add some modulation and other pure "signal processing" -delay/ filters/etc. If you want to sound like a '70s mini-moog, then this will do ti for you. I can see myself using it to do some background pads - etc. - it's a nice MULTI-EFFECTS box. And it'll save 100 pre-sets, perfect live gigging. . And for $700? That's a no-brainer. One boutique fuzz + one boutique analog delay stomp box and maybe a simple envelope filter and you've blown that much or more. I don't think an SY-300 is going to be a "do everything for everybody" kind of system, but it's another tool for the gig bag if you're into extreme signal processing.
One more quick edit - this makes a lot of the same noises as something like an EHX "Micro-Synth" or the "POGs" (which are roughly half the price) - but those units have no way to save any patches and no way to download patches/sounds. They're cool for recording but if you want to go from song to song to song you're constantly fiddling with settings - totally unprofessional onstage IMO - or you need several of the units. This is a much more useful tool for live playing IMO.
Tioga Fretworks Tioga ... the unit has to figure out what pitch you're playing and the intensity of that pitch and then it has to convert that into digital instructions to the digital oscillators. The engineers at Roland have been working on this problem for probably 30 years now. It has taken them decades to finally construct a circuit that can digitally transform analog signals into digital equivalents that you are imagining don't even exist.
Awesome pedal, but it's just too damned expensive for me. Unfortunate as I'd love to have one. If it were $400, I'd jump right away. Even at $500 I'd probably get one at some point but it's not something I'd use much. I'm gonna add a Fishman TriplePlay and a laptop to my rig instead.
Bowser's Castle... 9:37 :)
Tasteless😂🤣 How British. That torrent of notes is goddamn beautiful.
It isn't a sample player, it's an analogue synth. No Pianos, Sax's etc .....Just fat synth tones and fx. Neat.
Yes it's great but i wish it had those sounds too.
@@theo9952 I agree it's an expensive synth with no piano!?
Arps are for people that can't play the instrument. It would have been a little better to hear more of the synthesis and less arp. If I get one I'll remedy this with a better video. Amazing piece of gear.
At 5:50
"...It will work with, if I play sort of basic chords. It's not just monophonic, it's tracking chords beautifully."
Not exactly, it kind of tracks ARPEGGIOS, not strummed chords.
Let's hear you rake a big country G chord, all 6 strings.
Well, at least the sounds are great... if you want 1973-1986.
I know what you mean - the older versions sounded very washed up. However, I got to play one last week, both the synth and the effects track country style chord strumming very well - just as close as it can get.
styleomatic 1973-2015 : modern electro music is using analog synths (+jazz, pop, etc)
it only does midi patch changes...doesn't output midi notes..so it's not 'tracking' anything..it's like a overgrown effects pedal...a synth effect pedal for sure...dial up a piano patch to prove me wrong :)
cresshead You can talk about tracking even with a synth effect pedal (they can't track so fast generaly), SY300 is an analog synth (3 osc) + effects for guitar, bass, etc and like some old analog synth you can't use midi out for samplers, etc... (but it would be possible soon or later)
Why would anybody use this in front of a $2000 tube amp? A: You wouldn't. This synth just changed your tone to completely digital.. I guess different strokes for different folks.
Even synth players use amps. The tone coloration is as desirable for electronic music as it is for organic music.
700? Seriously!
Too much yappy yappy not enough twangy twangy
kryonso We tried to keep the twangy twangy to yappy yappy ratio balanced. Thanks for watching :-)
All the demos for this SY300 suck. I want to hear the horn and saxophone sounds...Lets hear the piano and organ sounds...Enough with these fucking screwy noises...
Does this thing have horn, piano, electric piano, and brass effects?
+joeyguitarlo It is a traditional three oscillator synth, so it can only get as close to these sounds as any such synth: not very! But if you want the old-fashioned synth sounds it's perfect. If you want realistic sounds, try a guitar to MIDI system and a modern sound bank or laptop running a ROMpler.
So it's not a real synth, like the GR55 Roland makes?
+joeyguitarlo It's a real synth in the the way that a moog is a real synth - you start with oscillators and shape the sounds from those with filtering and modulation, etc. You can adjust these parameters make it sound a bit like horns or sax or whatever, but it'll always sound more like a synth than the instruments you might be trying to emulate.
It sounds like you want a sampler - something that isn't actually synthesising the sounds, but playing back prerecorded (then perhaps modified) samples.
On the whole, I've not been impressed with demos of the SY300, but I was VERY impressed when I tried it in person - impressed enough that I left the shop with it. Most of the presets have too much going on to be usable for me, but it's very flexible for the creation of your own patches.
+joeyguitarlo of course not it is a real synth not a midi controler
It's a true synthesizer, not a ROMpler. You want a GR-55.
The thing sucks ass.
Roland 55 if you want real synth sounds.
Useless device...sy-1 much user friendly.