Boss SY-300 Advanced Guitar Synth Pedal

EXPLORE NEW DIMENSIONS OF SOUND WITH ANY GUITAR

Grab your favorite axe and dive into an extraordinary world of sound creation with the Boss SY-300 Advanced Guitar Synth Pedal. The SY-300 can be used with all your guitars immediately, with no special pickup required—just plug into the standard 1/4-inch jack and play! Thanks to revolutionary new BOSS technology, you can explore fat, analog-style polyphonic synth sounds with zero latency, seamlessly extending your instrument's natural expressiveness and familiar feel. In addition, you can shape your normal guitar with the synth’s filters, amps, and LFOs to create all sorts of cool sounds never heard before. From unique lead textures to rich, evocative soundscapes, the SY-300 brings untapped dimensions of inspiration and creativity to your music.

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Features:

• Plug into the standard 1/4-inch jack and play rich and expressive polyphonic synth tones with any guitar
• Completely latency-free playing feel directly connects your hands with the sound
• Three simultaneous synth sections and four effects processors enable rich, dynamic, and diverse sound creation
• Shape your normal guitar tone with synth filters, amplifiers, and LFOs to create all-new sounds
• Graphic LCD, three assignable footswitches, and dedicated on/off footswitch
• 70 ready-to-play preset patches and 99 user patches for storing custom sounds
• Create and archive sounds on your computer with the BOSS Tone Studio editor/librarian and download new sounds at BOSS Tone Central
• Works with bass and other electronic instruments as well

Access Expressive New Sounds via a Standard 1/4-Inch Input

The SY-300 makes tapping into BOSS’ legendary guitar synth technology easier than ever. While our other synth products require a special GK pickup and 13-pin cable to access synth voices, the SY-300 enables use with any guitar via a standard 1/4-inch cable. Powered by ultra-fast DSP and newly developed innovations from the BOSS engineering team, the SY-300 performs its amazing synth magic in real-time, with no lag whatsoever. This delivers a latency-free playing experience that’s a natural extension of your normal guitar, allowing you to play freely and organically without altering your technique in any way.

A True Analog-Style Synth for Guitar

The SY-300 is a versatile polyphonic synthesis engine with three distinct sections, offering a vast array of fresh tones. Enjoy creative freedom akin to a keyboardist, crafting sounds with synthesis parameters like wave shapes, filters, modulation, and layered oscillators. There’s even a step sequencer (with tap tempo control) for creating dynamic melodies and arpeggios simply by playing a single note on your guitar! Blend function allows instant mixing of synth settings from different patches, effortlessly uncovering inspiring new sounds without complex adjustments.

Shape Your Normal Guitar Sound with Synth Parameters

SY-300's synth engine transforms guitar sound creatively beyond synth voices, offering diverse processing options for compelling effects. Apply filtering to alter the basic tonality, and use the amplifier parameters to alter the attack and decay characteristics. After that, add some sweeping movement to the sound with the LFO section. Harness powerful controls to enrich your guitar with endless creative textures, ranging from subtle enhancements to otherworldly sonic explorations.

Maximize Tones with High-Impact Effects

Effects play a huge role in synthesizer sound design, and the SY-300 is filled with options to take your tones into the stratosphere. Four simultaneous effects engines are available, each with various effects types like overdrives, distortions, Slow Gear, Isolator, and Slicer. Some types can even perform two effects at once, such as chorus and delay or delay and reverb. Use the effects to process synth sounds, your straight guitar sound, or both at once—it’s up to you.

Powerful Control Options and Versatile Connectivity

The SY-300 synth pedal offers intuitive control during performances with four built-in footswitches. These allow bypassing synth sounds, scrolling through patches, and adjusting three parameters per patch. Additional control options include connecting two external footswitches or an expression pedal. Thru output sends dry guitar sound; doubles as effects loop with Return jack for pedals or amps integration. Dual outputs (Main and Sub) allow versatile signal routing; MIDI jacks enable seamless integration with switchers and drum machines.

USB Interface for Computers

The SY-300 features a USB audio interface for directly capturing audio tracks into music production software on your computer. You can record the SY-300’s synth and effects sounds, or simply monitor them while recording a dry signal. Then, you can feed that signal back into the SY-300 to “re-synth” the sound and create the perfect tone for your mix. Additionally, Route DAW tracks to SY-300, a process with synth engine and effects for creating new sounds in your productions. SY-300's USB connection: build and organize patches with BOSS Tone Studio, and download new patches from BOSS Tone Central.