Great for bloodhound gang cover, The Bad Touch, I mean it should do drum sounds right? I'm guessing it a copy of Fenders VG or was it VS guitar, later the project was taken over by Roland
A very cool idea in my opinion. I have a Roland GR/GK setup, and watching you I can tell the tracking beats that hands down. The Roland is more flexible etc but honestly what I hear from the Boss is all I need, and it's a great guitar to boot.
Great Video Leon! yours is about the 10th video I watched and the only one to go into some depth with clean/dirty tones from each of the 5 pickup settings. I was getting quite fustrated before I happened upon you quality video. Fustrated because any guitarist thats going to drop $2k on a synth guitar, better REALLY like it as a stand alone guitar. Im still waiting to hear it thru a quality valve amp, but for now your Ultra Axe worked fine. Thank you SO much Brother! You video imo is better then the official Boss Demos....kudos to you Mate! Joe, Reno, NV
This is exactly what Amir Derakh was doing in ORGY back in 98. His Jackson Roswell customs were INSANE cool and the custom Roland GE guitar that had the bar across the top? He was running guitar signal to a Marshall and Synth to front of house and it sounded insane good. Way ahead of its time.
@@LeonTodd His Rough Cut guitars were SO nice! That double neck was really cool! I've been trying (and epicly failing) to find his signature Yamaha that came out for years it's essentially my holy grail quest 😅
The biggest problem with something like this is the synth will become very limited when the vendor decides to stop supporting the app and the app becomes unusable on your mobile device. The reality is this is a very niche product, and without widescale adoption the risk of it becoming limited or unusable is pretty high.
@@TheRockinDonkey I use a Boss GP-10 guitar synth, which got me into it. I joined the V Guitar Forum and learned about all of the apps you can use. If you know SampleTank, you can use it and other iOS apps with a Roland GK-3 pickup. The Fishman midi pickup is far better. Many midi guitar controllers are terrible guitars. So if the Boss guitar is decent, it’s a good investment if you want to get into V Guitar. I use a Gibson Les Paul Standard with a GK-3, but I think a Godin guitar would be better.
This is essentially an SY-1 built into a MIJ guitar? You are spot on with blending tones on this. Imo, the SY1 benefits the most from that approach. It doesn't have the complexity of the 300 or the richness of the 1000.
It definitely feels like a "concept guitar". I wonder if it's an SY1 or 200 in there, or in true Roland fashion it's something based on but not identical to them.
@@LeonTodd I haven't had the 200. I (perhaps wrongly?) have always assumed it was an SY1 with preset storage and recall capability. We'll probably never know what it is exactly :)
Doubtful it was made by Yamaha, although wouldn’t be surprised if Yamaha and Roland did buy parts from the same Japanese manufactureres back in the day. They were big competitors back then (they were arguably the biggest 2 keyboard companies back in the 80s).
@@rebelcat420 the reasons I gave any credence to it is Roland was/is an electronic instrument builder. Logistically it seemed to me that setting up shop to build one model guitar and bass was a bit of investment and it isn't uncommon at all to find guitars built by outside manufacturers. The guitar's construction is also reminiscent to Yamaha's guitars of the time, particularly in the neck, reminding me a lot of Yamaha's SGV. But of course I can't be absolutely sure.
I know it's not the same, but I'm stoked to get my Boss SY-1 next week... one day I'd love to get a GK-2 pickup for one of my Ibanez RGs, but I just want something to turn it into a standard MIDI signal to control my JP-8080, MicroKorg, etc.
This has potential, but IMO, the synth tweak options and some layering, arp/seq, etc would make this killer. needs a special control pedal to do a bunch of cool stuff too. Until then, i dont see this as a threat to the EHX "9" line
Really cool. I have to hand it to Roland/Boss - they keep putting out new guitar synth variations despite the fact they have never really taken off. This is not a cheap guitar new - around $2200 or so new, although I already see a few used ones for much less on Reverb. Tempting... very tempting.
All in one, handy, and I hope it makes someone happy. If the guitar really is up to prime time use, agreed on utility of blended tones. Good that they are continuing to explore. Would like to hear fresher sounds. Strikes me as my GR-09 sandboxed in a guitar. Cheers, D
I honestly wouldn't be having half as much fun without my SY-1 or SY-300! You have to do A LOT to get them sounding good, for instance, you have to use a Tube Screamer before any of the SY's to get them to articulate all the notes within a full chord properly. I even use an EHX Attack-Decay before the SY. I fear that this GS-1 makes those sorts of setups impossible. But regardless, this thing will lead the way to something incredible. Amazing guitars are coming and the price tag won't be so terrifying when it does what we never even knew we wanted. Thanks for a great demo! I'm really excited for the GS-1000 😉
The 15 seconds from 3:42 perfectly sums up my year of owning an SY200 🤣. $500 for a couple of minutes of pentatonic cheese a month, and it was TOTALLY worth it!
The sy1000 does so much more then the 200 series. The SY1000 can actually be used as a standalone guitar rig nevermind the synth stuff wheras the 200 series has some of the stuff it does. It deserves more credit than some cheese rig you play on sunday mornings before your decide to nail your wife again and take a nap.
Great note choices in the outro solo, synthwave tracks always inspires you man. having the sound of a synth and the nuances of a guitar string to control it its really amazing, that ending proves it. If roland keeps improving this we´ll probably have real synths/virtual instruments available soon.
That guitar costs more than it cost me to get a Roland GR-300, a GR-505 guitar, and a 24-pin cable. Sure, the GR-300 has very limited sounds, but it's so darn expressive and seamless in how it tracks your playing...
We're at the point now where you can have a decent gutar based synth from a Roland GR hexaphonic system (love my GR55 and Terratec Axon) to a pc based software synth (MidiGuitar2 ) triggering any synth instrument (real or virtual plugin) and have it sound great. Its all cool !
I really wish BOSS would have gone a different direction with this guitar...many guitarists play in cover bands...both Roland/ BOSS and Line 6 has done the guitar modeling thing, but no one has both guitar modeling AND amp modeling contained all in the guitar...I'd love to see them come up with the capability that the SY 1000 has in regard to just the guitar and amp modeling, with all the guitar modeling features it has like 2 octive range alternate tuning capability, 12 string capability, all the different types of very popular guitars, all the amp and floorboard effects (controlled by some type of well thought out bluetooth floorboard communicating to the guitar)...you would just load your saved presets into the guitar like you would when using the SY 1000...Like the Roland Strat that had guitar modeling in it, except this would have guitar/ amp/ speaker/ fx modeling all in the guitar...it'd be great for me if all I had to bring is my guitar and accompaning floorboard controller to gigs, preprogrammed for 100 songs or so...I will say the good thing about the SY 1000 is that you can equipt just about any guitar you really like the feel of with a GK3 or Graph Tech's hexpander board and piezo saddles, and your in there playing the guitar you really like...
I never really cared much about guitar synth sounds on guitar devices. More interested in fast MIDI translation to use outboard gear or software libraries. Can you do that with this guitar?
In the late 80s to the 90s I owned an Ibanez/Casio MIDI Guitar the first and last PG-780, I paid at Boat show, Whales Tail and benefits and it started to not work. A cert. Tech could only fix these this MIDI guitar. My dad told me and their tech said leaky electronic capacitors and there's 10 of them. So this is when it got weird again. This repair shop is an hours drive to this store. So when they thought it would behave I brought it back home. 5 years later, I'm showing off my MIDI guitar that I showed kids what you can play today back then and showing anthd that Floyd Ross trem was in the air since I didn't think later again the leaky electrolytic capacitors!! I hate saying, that guitar looks like the guitar I played once. Is there a qualified tech to look at them. Sun light trashes them. I worked outside venues in my city's in Southern California up and down. Sorry
If you're a producer who's main instrument is guitar, you probably will. I know they're a rarity but I know a couple of producers who lay down midi tracks with midi guitars instead of midi keyboards just because they're a bit more comfortable creating music with a fretboard rather than a keyboard.
This is cool. I don't think I could justify the $2,200 price tag for myself, but someone is going to use this to make some innovative music. I could see Tom Morello doing amazing things with one of these.
Ну и ну, хотите все уместить в один инструмент включая процессор? Это уже Синтезатор со струнами, да ещё за такую цену, мне обычной Классики хватает за Глаза! Так что Электрогитара (у меня их 5шт) и Комбоусилитель Boss Next Tone Special - получаю наслаждение каждый день.
For all that hate the sounds look into the boss GR-55 pedal, insane sounds, tracking is a little bad but not horrible,,,, what song is that at the end or backing track please?
A few months ago after watching a Boss SY1 video, I began researching for synth pedals.. Boss, EHX, etc. And then I realized all of them sound cheesy except SY1000.
The problem with guitar synths is that they always sound farty and cheesy. The tones don't stand up, especially in todays synth dominated world. There are rare exceptions, but it's usually when the guitarist is playing something that resembles super simple keyboard lines. An example is Glenn Tipton using the Hamer Phantom A7 to drive a Roland GR-700 on Turbo Lover. Basically just a simple synth pad with some LFO hard sync to tempo. I tried for years to find a solution, but eventually just bought a real synthesizer and learned how to play it. Guitar is and always will be my main instrument, but the string to synth interface just isn't ever going to be up to par. However... the synth I've been waiting for since the early 90s has arrived! Check out the Osmose! Finally the level of expression in a keyboard that I have always loved from a guitar.
I have found that guitar synthesis is most effective when you find a certain context to use it in. You noted Glenn Tipton. Pat Metheny continues to use an old (1979) GR-300 guitar synth for an amazing solo voice, reminiscent of a horn, and it works. He doesn't use it for anything else, and that's OK. I don't ever see guitar synths replacing a keyboard rig, but working with it, a player can find their own niche.
@boss / @Roland Missed opportunities: 1. The physical power connection should be near the jack NOT at the top. 2. Not adding in something like a POE injector or special guitar cable that carries power to the unit. This wouldn't be terribly difficult to "Invent" (as most of the tech already exists). 3. Price. I get that you're getting a lot for the price... but no offense, this isn't a $2100 guitar. Maybe a $1500 guitar... but $2100... you're going to have a HARD time convincing someone they shouldn't just get their "Dream" PRS, Gibson, Fender that they would want to own for the rest of their lives, versus a trick guitar. 4. Haven't seen this covered... but a native MIDI out would've been much better to have... this way you don't have to only rely on your built in sounds which are (in comparison to something like Native Instruments)... not great.
Considering that MIJ guitars have gone so much up in price over the last decade ( hell, Made in Indonesia guitars have gone up also), the price is not bad. That beeing said, most guitarplayers have not much use for the Midi-Synth stuff.
Another boss preset demo… got their signature sound since the nineties. Make the best sounding iphone stands in the industrie though. Think your other vids are better.
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I always wanted a $2,000 guitar to sound like a $50 Casio keyboard.
Haha! That one got me! Brilliant.
Lol yep
Great for bloodhound gang cover, The Bad Touch, I mean it should do drum sounds right? I'm guessing it a copy of Fenders VG or was it VS guitar, later the project was taken over by Roland
It's been a while Chandler Bing.
Hahahaha
I can imagine how varied the sound of guitars in the 70's 80's and 90's would be if this guitar existed in that eras.
Similar things did - several by Casio and a couple by Roland. Check out the Casio PG-380 or MG-500. People like Stanley Jordan went nuts on them.
Casio had a few thru the 70 80 and 90
Man this is phenomenal, not for that price, but phenomenal
A very cool idea in my opinion. I have a Roland GR/GK setup, and watching you I can tell the tracking beats that hands down. The Roland is more flexible etc but honestly what I hear from the Boss is all I need, and it's a great guitar to boot.
Which, fwiw Boss = Roland. Same company
Great Video Leon! yours is about the 10th video I watched and the only one to go into some depth with clean/dirty tones from each of the 5 pickup settings. I was getting quite fustrated before I happened upon you quality video. Fustrated because any guitarist thats going to drop $2k on a synth guitar, better REALLY like it as a stand alone guitar. Im still waiting to hear it thru a quality valve amp, but for now your Ultra Axe worked fine. Thank you SO much Brother! You video imo is better then the official Boss Demos....kudos to you Mate! Joe, Reno, NV
Much appreciated!
perfect for synthwave
This is exactly what Amir Derakh was doing in ORGY back in 98. His Jackson Roswell customs were INSANE cool and the custom Roland GE guitar that had the bar across the top? He was running guitar signal to a Marshall and Synth to front of house and it sounded insane good. Way ahead of its time.
I always loved that Jackson double neck Amir had with the joined headstocks!
@@LeonTodd His Rough Cut guitars were SO nice! That double neck was really cool! I've been trying (and epicly failing) to find his signature Yamaha that came out for years it's essentially my holy grail quest 😅
The biggest problem with something like this is the synth will become very limited when the vendor decides to stop supporting the app and the app becomes unusable on your mobile device. The reality is this is a very niche product, and without widescale adoption the risk of it becoming limited or unusable is pretty high.
There are loads of apps and synth modules.
@@MaxPower-js1sk That's awesome if you don't have to rely on the manufacturer to support the device.
@@TheRockinDonkey I use a Boss GP-10 guitar synth, which got me into it. I joined the V Guitar Forum and learned about all of the apps you can use. If you know SampleTank, you can use it and other iOS apps with a Roland GK-3 pickup. The Fishman midi pickup is far better. Many midi guitar controllers are terrible guitars. So if the Boss guitar is decent, it’s a good investment if you want to get into V Guitar. I use a Gibson Les Paul Standard with a GK-3, but I think a Godin guitar would be better.
@@MaxPower-js1sk Hey, thanks for the education.
Great video. I agree - this is a different proposition to say buying a Boss SY-200 pedal (which I have and love)
WOW, I LIKE THAT. I WANT THIS GUITAR. SUPER STAR AGAINT RETURN.
This is essentially an SY-1 built into a MIJ guitar? You are spot on with blending tones on this. Imo, the SY1 benefits the most from that approach. It doesn't have the complexity of the 300 or the richness of the 1000.
It definitely feels like a "concept guitar". I wonder if it's an SY1 or 200 in there, or in true Roland fashion it's something based on but not identical to them.
@@LeonTodd I haven't had the 200. I (perhaps wrongly?) have always assumed it was an SY1 with preset storage and recall capability. We'll probably never know what it is exactly :)
Add a BIG , FAT Loop Pedal and a Good Reverb , you could build up something quite symphonic as a Solo player . Cool GUITAR .
Roland used to sell a fender Squier that had a GK2 synth module installed onto it. I think it was a Mexican Squire.
I have one it's a Roland ready Strat made in Mexico but it is not a squire it's a fender
Yaasss!!! I knew it! and a great 80s clean at that!
I currently have a Roland G-707 which I believe was built for them by Yamaha. It was also a synth guitar with a *huge* synth board.
I had the same guitar back in the nintes was a lot of fun
Doubtful it was made by Yamaha, although wouldn’t be surprised if Yamaha and Roland did buy parts from the same Japanese manufactureres back in the day. They were big competitors back then (they were arguably the biggest 2 keyboard companies back in the 80s).
@@rebelcat420 the reasons I gave any credence to it is Roland was/is an electronic instrument builder. Logistically it seemed to me that setting up shop to build one model guitar and bass was a bit of investment and it isn't uncommon at all to find guitars built by outside manufacturers. The guitar's construction is also reminiscent to Yamaha's guitars of the time, particularly in the neck, reminding me a lot of Yamaha's SGV. But of course I can't be absolutely sure.
I know it's not the same, but I'm stoked to get my Boss SY-1 next week... one day I'd love to get a GK-2 pickup for one of my Ibanez RGs, but I just want something to turn it into a standard MIDI signal to control my JP-8080, MicroKorg, etc.
I use a GK-pickup and a Roland GI-20 midi converter that I picked up second hand for next to nothing. Works brilliantly.
@@larsolufsen Nice, I'll have to keep an eye out for a GI-20!
Leon, your jams sound great as usual
Thanks for listening!
I have an old Roland guitar that comes with the gr300 and it’s made very well think Ibanez factory but not sure plays like it should be expensive
Zeppelin's "all of my love" was definitely on the mind during this one. Weddings tone covered 😉
They dropped the ball on the headstock...
Certainly can say, if they make a budget one, i will buy it.
Wait for one to appear on Thomann.
Outro song sounds cool, really has that big sound.
This has potential, but IMO, the synth tweak options and some layering, arp/seq, etc would make this killer. needs a special control pedal to do a bunch of cool stuff too.
Until then, i dont see this as a threat to the EHX "9" line
Very professional Sounds and Tone. Greatly appreciate your channel
I appreciate your appreciation
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If i want a synth sound, i would like to play a synth.
If i want guitar sound, i would like to play guitar.
Nothing for me...
I'm more of a guitar player than a synth player, so the ability to control a synth with a guitar is pretty cool to me.
Really cool. I have to hand it to Roland/Boss - they keep putting out new guitar synth variations despite the fact they have never really taken off. This is not a cheap guitar new - around $2200 or so new, although I already see a few used ones for much less on Reverb.
Tempting... very tempting.
All in one, handy, and I hope it makes someone happy. If the guitar really is up to prime time use, agreed on utility of blended tones. Good that they are continuing to explore. Would like to hear fresher sounds. Strikes me as my GR-09 sandboxed in a guitar. Cheers, D
Крутая гитара 21 века))!Для домашнего гитариста самое то!
I honestly wouldn't be having half as much fun without my SY-1 or SY-300! You have to do A LOT to get them sounding good, for instance, you have to use a Tube Screamer before any of the SY's to get them to articulate all the notes within a full chord properly. I even use an EHX Attack-Decay before the SY. I fear that this GS-1 makes those sorts of setups impossible. But regardless, this thing will lead the way to something incredible. Amazing guitars are coming and the price tag won't be so terrifying when it does what we never even knew we wanted. Thanks for a great demo! I'm really excited for the GS-1000 😉
Allan Holdsworth called and would like 1985 back, please.
2022 called and would like Allan back, please. RIP Al
An inspiring instrument, well demonstrated✌️🪴🤘
The app is missing ADSR or any ability to make your own synth tones, and assignable pedal modulation
The Whitesnake style thing with the blended synth…wow. That was pretty much shut up and take my money.
2:10 Man, that was a little shivering - perfect to the touch!
The 15 seconds from 3:42 perfectly sums up my year of owning an SY200 🤣. $500 for a couple of minutes of pentatonic cheese a month, and it was TOTALLY worth it!
24 month aged cheddar!
The sy1000 does so much more then the 200 series. The SY1000 can actually be used as a standalone guitar rig nevermind the synth stuff wheras the 200 series has some of the stuff it does. It deserves more credit than some cheese rig you play on sunday mornings before your decide to nail your wife again and take a nap.
@@kingfisher7960 it need outboard reverb tho. Reverb on it were kinda meh. Nevertheless I still used it with GT1000
@@kingfisher7960 Whoa dude, settle down. I already have a GT1000 so...
It’s basically an AOR machine perfect for the debut Danger Danger Album remaster!
Great note choices in the outro solo, synthwave tracks always inspires you man. having the sound of a synth and the nuances of a guitar string to control it its really amazing, that ending proves it. If roland keeps improving this we´ll probably have real synths/virtual instruments available soon.
Thanks a ton!
Thank you for this vid! I want one now!
Cool product and great solo at the end! Me likey!
That guitar costs more than it cost me to get a Roland GR-300, a GR-505 guitar, and a 24-pin cable. Sure, the GR-300 has very limited sounds, but it's so darn expressive and seamless in how it tracks your playing...
Petrucci can now write Jordans parts.
What is the "premium" price here Leon? Love the idea as still have a VG 8 system in the loft.
$2300 in the USA. Kind of excessive
yeah over $2k USD so it's "serious" guitar money IMO
We're at the point now where you can have a decent gutar based synth from a Roland GR hexaphonic system (love my GR55 and Terratec Axon) to a pc based software synth (MidiGuitar2 ) triggering any synth instrument (real or virtual plugin) and have it sound great. Its all cool !
I do have to say that is pretty cool!!!
I really wish BOSS would have gone a different direction with this guitar...many guitarists play in cover bands...both Roland/ BOSS and Line 6 has done the guitar modeling thing, but no one has both guitar modeling AND amp modeling contained all in the guitar...I'd love to see them come up with the capability that the SY 1000 has in regard to just the guitar and amp modeling, with all the guitar modeling features it has like 2 octive range alternate tuning capability, 12 string capability, all the different types of very popular guitars, all the amp and floorboard effects (controlled by some type of well thought out bluetooth floorboard communicating to the guitar)...you would just load your saved presets into the guitar like you would when using the SY 1000...Like the Roland Strat that had guitar modeling in it, except this would have guitar/ amp/ speaker/ fx modeling all in the guitar...it'd be great for me if all I had to bring is my guitar and accompaning floorboard controller to gigs, preprogrammed for 100 songs or so...I will say the good thing about the SY 1000 is that you can equipt just about any guitar you really like the feel of with a GK3 or Graph Tech's hexpander board and piezo saddles, and your in there playing the guitar you really like...
I wonder who Boss had build this for them. If its FujiGen, its worth the asking price.
Not sure but I've played a few Fujigens and this feels familiar
These are made by Dyna Gakki :)
As far as I know FujiGen doesn’t do any compound radius necks, just adding that useless bit of info.
@@sixstringsamurai77 there you have it!
It’s funny that every time you make reference to the 80s it’s the best if you were playing. At least it’s not a bunch of distorted Pentatonics.
boss : we made a guitar
everyone : no
I would buy if left handed option. Have the same issue with keytars..:)
Dig that soul organ
4:00 was expecting Flash Gordon theme music
I never really cared much about guitar synth sounds on guitar devices. More interested in fast MIDI translation to use outboard gear or software libraries. Can you do that with this guitar?
40-plus years of goodwill associated with the iconic BOSS logo and they put some unrecognizable Jay Turser-looking logo on the headstock?
Tracking is nice.
If the logo/decal would be the BOSS from their pedals, would get this right away… ;)
Cant understand why they did not put original one, the one on guitar makes it looks like a cheap copy
Awesome keyboard for guitarists \m/
If I wanted to play a synth I would get a keyboard.
can you review MIDIGuitar2 vst with your guitar , i am curious 😁
i still have my 35 years old Roland G-707 Guitar 😉
Woods looks like made by Ernie Ball / Music Man. Nice guitar for 80`s Disco.
Want one!!! 😊
In the late 80s to the 90s I owned an Ibanez/Casio MIDI Guitar the first and last PG-780, I paid at Boat show, Whales Tail and benefits and it started to not work. A cert. Tech could only fix these this MIDI guitar. My dad told me and their tech said leaky electronic capacitors and there's 10 of them. So this is when it got weird again. This repair shop is an hours drive to this store. So when they thought it would behave I brought it back home. 5 years later, I'm showing off my MIDI guitar that I showed kids what you can play today back then and showing anthd that Floyd Ross trem was in the air since I didn't think later again the leaky electrolytic capacitors!!
I hate saying, that guitar looks like the guitar I played once. Is there a qualified tech to look at them. Sun light trashes them. I worked outside venues in my city's in Southern California up and down. Sorry
Remember your first multi effect pedal. You will NEVER use these synth sounds, just think about that ;)
If you're a producer who's main instrument is guitar, you probably will. I know they're a rarity but I know a couple of producers who lay down midi tracks with midi guitars instead of midi keyboards just because they're a bit more comfortable creating music with a fretboard rather than a keyboard.
Can you use that guitar and play Jump - Van Halen? It would be interesting. Please play the whole song.
Can you share the backtrack?
Thank you ❤
How does it handle sounds from an external library? Can it function as a MIDI controller? Otherwise, no interest. Sorry.
This is cool. I don't think I could justify the $2,200 price tag for myself, but someone is going to use this to make some innovative music. I could see Tom Morello doing amazing things with one of these.
That is against the original Morello ethic. "No synthesizers, samplers, sequencers used in this recording"
Woooooow!
Looks like my cort g300 pro 😮
Imagine Jordan Rudess playing this 🤘🤘
That tone @11:00 reminds me of Miami Vice / Jan Hammer
Ну и ну, хотите все уместить в один инструмент включая процессор? Это уже Синтезатор со струнами, да ещё за такую цену, мне обычной Классики хватает за Глаза! Так что Электрогитара (у меня их 5шт) и Комбоусилитель Boss Next Tone Special - получаю наслаждение каждый день.
For all that hate the sounds look into the boss GR-55 pedal, insane sounds, tracking is a little bad but not horrible,,,, what song is that at the end or backing track please?
River of Darkness by The Midnight
But does it djent?
A few months ago after watching a Boss SY1 video, I began researching for synth pedals.. Boss, EHX, etc. And then I realized all of them sound cheesy except SY1000.
The Sy1000 is amazing
Well, the headstock and logo design certainly won't win any prices...
The problem with guitar synths is that they always sound farty and cheesy. The tones don't stand up, especially in todays synth dominated world. There are rare exceptions, but it's usually when the guitarist is playing something that resembles super simple keyboard lines. An example is Glenn Tipton using the Hamer Phantom A7 to drive a Roland GR-700 on Turbo Lover. Basically just a simple synth pad with some LFO hard sync to tempo.
I tried for years to find a solution, but eventually just bought a real synthesizer and learned how to play it. Guitar is and always will be my main instrument, but the string to synth interface just isn't ever going to be up to par. However... the synth I've been waiting for since the early 90s has arrived! Check out the Osmose! Finally the level of expression in a keyboard that I have always loved from a guitar.
I have found that guitar synthesis is most effective when you find a certain context to use it in. You noted Glenn Tipton. Pat Metheny continues to use an old (1979) GR-300 guitar synth for an amazing solo voice, reminiscent of a horn, and it works. He doesn't use it for anything else, and that's OK. I don't ever see guitar synths replacing a keyboard rig, but working with it, a player can find their own niche.
cool how I place an order please?
...I wonder-if Boss will sell JUST the GUTS/ELECTRONIC package?...Just a thought...Peace,my Brother...
Leon, what setting are you using @15:20? thanks!
Using my live Axe-Fx III preset there!
@@LeonTodd Hi again, can you tell me how to dial in that effect? Thank you!
Gitar udah kaya keyboard keren
yeah, get this n redo the entire Megman X soundtrack.
If you want info, visit the V Guitar Forum. Those people know everything.
Can we use it as a USB MIDI Controller?
I don't think so
When are they going to put useful sounds in these these GTR SNTH systems ?
Mall like .
looks like they gutted a sy-200 pedal and put it inside the guitar
looks like they gutted a guitar and put an sy-200 pedal in, more likely ;)
In 80s , Roland made a couple of them . Steve Hackett
Yes! Absolute classics. love what Andy Summers did with them too.
@@LeonTodd also Robert fripp of king crimson
How much $
@boss / @Roland
Missed opportunities:
1. The physical power connection should be near the jack NOT at the top.
2. Not adding in something like a POE injector or special guitar cable that carries power to the unit. This wouldn't be terribly difficult to "Invent" (as most of the tech already exists).
3. Price. I get that you're getting a lot for the price... but no offense, this isn't a $2100 guitar. Maybe a $1500 guitar... but $2100... you're going to have a HARD time convincing someone they shouldn't just get their "Dream" PRS, Gibson, Fender that they would want to own for the rest of their lives, versus a trick guitar.
4. Haven't seen this covered... but a native MIDI out would've been much better to have... this way you don't have to only rely on your built in sounds which are (in comparison to something like Native Instruments)... not great.
Synthetic humans get a 20% discount on their first BOSS guitar.
Godin.
Synth power supply via 4x AA batteries or PSA adapter, that's means you must to plug a power outlet or change batteries.....WTF Why?????????
great work by Boss just like a Boss
Considering that MIJ guitars have gone so much up in price over the last decade ( hell, Made in Indonesia guitars have gone up also), the price is not bad.
That beeing said, most guitarplayers have not much use for the Midi-Synth stuff.
Another boss preset demo… got their signature sound since the nineties. Make the best sounding iphone stands in the industrie though. Think your other vids are better.
I want one. I use the POD GO synths a lot and they're pretty good, but this is better. Hope they add synth effects in the katana MK II somehow.
I want to break free
hugo boss?
I'd rather get the roland synth guitar set up and throw it on my 100$ cort.
It seems like a decent controller, but the sounds are typical Boss/Roland. Their presets are always poxy.
"copying the variax" 🥴excellent product