Boss SY-300 Guitar Synth Videos

Started by Elantric, April 17, 2015, 09:43:11 PM

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dsmmrm

I listened to this whole thing and didn't hear a single usable preset. I'm sure there are good sounds in the box waiting to be liberated but the presets suck canal water. I bought the GR55 primarily for decent piano, organ, and string sounds. The presets in that box need tweaking for sure but at least offer a glimpse of what you may ultimately get. Anyone hear a decent piano from the SY300 yet? I'd be interested to see what can be done for those of us who aren't doing a 50's scifi film remake. The tracking is beyond impressive but that means nothing if you can't get the sounds you want out of it.



Quote from: Elantric on June 29, 2015, 02:08:39 PM
Boss SY-300 Factory Preset Run through




BOSS SY-300 GUITAR SYNTHESIZER SOUND TEST

CARVIN HH2X - BB Preamp - SY-300 - Peavey ENVOY110


Elantric

QuoteAnyone hear a decent piano from the SY300 yet?

Not going to happen - its rather like asking

Anyone hear a decent piano from a fuzz face yet?

Dharmashawn

The first video with the lovely scenery was promising
"Blessed are the weird people, the poets, and misfits, the artists, the writers, and music makers, the dreamers, the outsiders; for they force us to see the world differently."

JiveTurkey

Quote from: dsmmrm on August 18, 2015, 10:14:12 AM
I listened to this whole thing and didn't hear a single usable preset. I'm sure there are good sounds in the box waiting to be liberated but the presets suck canal water. I bought the GR55 primarily for decent piano, organ, and string sounds. The presets in that box need tweaking for sure but at least offer a glimpse of what you may ultimately get. Anyone hear a decent piano from the SY300 yet? I'd be interested to see what can be done for those of us who aren't doing a 50's scifi film remake. The tracking is beyond impressive but that means nothing if you can't get the sounds you want out of it.
This is coming from someone who plays live with the synth; so if you are someone who plans on using it for recording, take my 2 cents with a grain of salt.

You can get great organ sounds and some solid string sounds out of it. Piano; well no  :P I am loving the hell out of my SY. If you need hyper-realism in your tones; it won't fly. If you have a little leeway in what you find acceptable; it is really great. If anything; I started out 100% biased AGAINST the SY. It just took some time and listening to different clips to see what it could do without the anchor that is the GK pickup system. Ugh.


cellomangler

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Quote from: dsmmrm on August 18, 2015, 10:14:12 AM
I listened to this whole thing and didn't hear a single usable preset. I'm sure there are good sounds in the box waiting to be liberated but the presets suck canal water. I bought the GR55 primarily for decent piano, organ, and string sounds. The presets in that box need tweaking for sure but at least offer a glimpse of what you may ultimately get. Anyone hear a decent piano from the SY300 yet? I'd be interested to see what can be done for those of us who aren't doing a 50's scifi film remake. The tracking is beyond impressive but that means nothing if you can't get the sounds you want out of it.
IF you are not into synthy voices, you probably don't need this box, though... listen to the Artist patches and their videos at Boss Tone Central and you'll hear much more usable patches.  I'm an old school Arp 2500 / Moog modular guy who then moved up to the first MIDI synth, a Chroma Polaris and then on from there into FM, wavetables and then sampling.  The SY-300 is a subtractive synth with a few waveform options, arpeggiator, envelopes, killer effects, filtering and routing.  If you don't like the presets, I doubt you'd be happy with this box.  I wasn't wild about the presets as heard initially on YouTube, but what I did immediately pick up from first listen, knowing that it is programmable, is that I could make my own killer sounds.  But one person's killer sounds is another's yucky sounds.  One day... and I'm sure it will happen...  they will make a guitar synth that outputs modelled acoustic representations using the guitar's output as a direct trigger for the pitch and envelope and timbre without having to extract pitch and envelope data and utilize the MIDI middleman.  I'd like that too, because I don't care for MIDI live and I hate cleaning up MIDI sequences.  That said, a MIDI sequence is wonderful because you can edit and replace voices and all sorts of stuff.  So I don't want it to go away... ;D
Now... I would like to run Pianoteq (my piano of choice) through the SY-300....  That could be cool... along with the billion other experimental things that are possible for the adventurous.  Having said all this... I know shortly I'll be hearing a multi-tracked symphonic piece of sorts will all instrumentation created with the SY-300.  I'd love the time to tackle that myself.

dsmmrm

I guess I am just mistaken about what this box is. I was under the impression that the SY is the next step in evolution from the GR series. Apparently it is more of a parallel product with a different target market. OK, I can get my head around that. I am very new to this world and soaking up the collected wisdom on this forum as fast as my poor brain can absorb it. I am woefully short on time to learn my new GR55 but I like what I hear so far. I am not ready to take it to a gig yet but another month or so and I should be there.

I did see the potential for some decent organ sounds in the SY and of course, the pads and very cool. I wish they could take the ability to track like it does with magnetic pups and apply it to the PCM sounds but that appears to be another hoop to jump though with regards to pitch to midi vs cosm.

Oh well, some day the holy grail of sound will come along and do it all. I doubt I will be able to afford it, though.

Elantric

QuoteI guess I am just mistaken about what this box is. I was under the impression that the SY is the next step in evolution from the GR series.

Read the Boss SY-300 FAQ
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=14600.0

Boss SY-300 Q & A  (Japan )

(courtesy of Google Translate)
https://translate.google.com/


http://jp.boss.info/support/by_product/sy-300/knowledge_base/
Q: What is the difference between the GR-55 and SY-300?

A: For Roland GR-55 Synth, there are sounds of the PCM sound source, you can emulate the sounds of various real  instruments.
For SY-300 is not a PCM sound system, you will not be able to issue these sounds.
In addition, We also do not conduct any such conversion to pitch detection and MIDI signal.
The oscillator is caused to oscillate, it makes a sound in a manner that will create a sound from scratch.
Also there is no COSM Guitar Modeling or Alt Tuning possible in the SY-300


dsmmrm

yep. Apparently I am guilty of not doing my homework. Sorry for the waste of bandwidth. It is indeed a different animal with different stripes. I am relieved, to be honest. If I bought a GR55 and it was immediately superseded by a bigger-better-faster device I would be quite miffed. Given what I know now (thanks to you) the SY-300 is not the device I want, the GR55 is. Any rumors on a successor to the GR55? It has to be due by now. 

Elantric

QuoteAny rumors on a successor to the GR55? It has to be due by now.

No word - but you will have to wait in line behind folks who have been waiting since 2012  for a true successor to the now discontinued flagship - the Roland VG-99




Now_And_Then

Quote from: Elantric on August 18, 2015, 10:17:14 AM
Anyone hear a decent piano from a fuzz face yet?

Thanks to HRM, anything is possible! 

:)

Justin Clauser

Hello all! I am new to the forums and made a demo video in the form of an 80's medley.


Below is my demo video of the Boss SY-300 and Roland TD-11 KV-S. Most of the tones are presets with a handful of tones I created and one tone I downloaded from Boss. No eqing was done to the tracks. I recorded the demo after a few days of experimenting with the unit so I know that I can get much more in depth in the future. I hope you enjoy my contribution.


mchad

Quote from: Justin Clauser on December 15, 2015, 09:13:31 AM
Hello all! I am new to the forums and made a demo video in the form of an 80's medley.

Good stuff Justin. Nice to hear some more of what the SY300 can do. I do want one myself but I think I need to hear more user feedback. And with NAMM not too far away maybe Boss/Roland have some awesome new gear in the barrel. I may wait to see what that brings.

JiveTurkey

Quote from: Justin Clauser on December 15, 2015, 09:13:31 AM
Hello all! I am new to the forums and made a demo video in the form of an 80's medley.


Below is my demo video of the Boss SY-300 and Roland TD-11 KV-S. Most of the tones are presets with a handful of tones I created and one tone I downloaded from Boss. No eqing was done to the tracks. I recorded the demo after a few days of experimenting with the unit so I know that I can get much more in depth in the future. I hope you enjoy my contribution.

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Nice work! Post up your patches in the Exchange! I dig the Axel F riffing  ;D

whippinpost91850

Sound good, thanks for the well played demo

krysh

my 2 ct's, yours,

krysh

sy-300 newbie and bass- and guitarplayer from hamburg, germany

Justin Clauser

Thanks mchad, JiveTurkey, whippinpost91850, and krysh!

mchad, Hopefully this forum can help you get the user feedback you desire. I have a very positive opinion of the pedal and have found it works great as a standalone unit direct into a pa. For Jazz and ambient gigs, all I use is a SY-300 and a Digitech Jamman Stereo. No amp or other pedals are used save for an external tap tempo button for the SY-300. I posted a review in the stickied user reviews thread under General Discussion.

As for the patch exchange, my patches are not yet at the level of quality that I would want to share them. The goal with the demo wasn't to show polished tones so much as demonstrate just how good the tones are with a few days of messing with the pedal. I am quite happy that people seemed to like the tones and hadn't considered for 1 second that people might want them. Thanks for making me feel good about my tones! When they meet my expectations of quality, I will share them.

gumtown

I just found this on the interweb,
this guy knows his way around the SY-300.
This is how an equipment demo video should be done.!!!
Free "GR-55 FloorBoard" editor software from https://sourceforge.net/projects/grfloorboard/

Elantric

#118
https://youtu.be/pKuixTNLe5A?list=PLbqAyEOW1NT2G2ZYr8tlTWC0o9GDX4JX7

https://youtu.be/JlzDt2PJm0s?list=PLbqAyEOW1NT2G2ZYr8tlTWC0o9GDX4JX7





First tutorial on how to obtain split sounds or layered sounds with the Boss SY300.

https://soundcloud.com/kinda-inappropriate
http://kindainappropriate.blogspot.it/



Boss SY-300 "letter from home" P Metheny guitar frode haaland

Elantric

#119

BOSS Product Specialist, Austin Sandick, shows you how to navigate the SY300 Guitar Synth. Comment below with any questions or instructional video topics you would like. Be sure to follow my channel for more updated instructional videos on the SY300 Guitar Synth and other BOSS Products. Thanks for watching!



BOSS Product Specialist, Austin Sandick, shows you the different wave forms and their controls in the SY300 Guitar Synth.



BOSS SY300 Guitar Synth Filters & Amp


BOSS SY300 LFO's


BOSS SY300 Guitar Synth Sequencer

Vaultnaemsae

Austin Sandick,
He's the guy (Roland Rep) I met in Boston who offered any help if the demo model VG-99 I purchased from Guitar Centre had any problems (he was in the store when i purchased it and gave me a business card and an offer to help out if there were any post purchase issues). Suffice to say it died as soon as I got back home and he was not interested in assisting with the offered support. Not even a reply. I think his name is missing an 'S' between the 'n' and the 'd'.
Vaultnaemsae's SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/vaultnaemsae

Elantric




Elantric

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Herwig Scheck
Published on Dec 29, 2015
BOSS SY-300 trying to emulate a TB-303

This is not a song, just a quickie, semi-prepared demo of how a SY-300 could resemble a TB-303.
Rough sound, watch that volume knob for spikes.


bass into SY-300, setup with CTL1 as OSC1/2/3-hold and lots of knob twiddling.



QuoteDavid Thompson wrote>
How do you hold a note


Herwig Scheck
David Thompson I'm not at my Sy300 at the moment but you can assign different functions to the different switches. In this case "osc1 hold" (and 2 and 3). Great function to "freeze" notes or chords as well!

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