sy-300 owners wanted

[Teej212]

anyone have experience with this pedal? really eying it hard...would love to hear some thoughts on it from the ILF crowd

this video has me really intrigued :

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[$harkToootth]

I know you brought this up before so when I saw this I kind of thought "It's only $300 why doesn't he just get it?" (still a lot of money, I know)....thennnnn I saw....it's not $300 ha-ha! Not even close.

[popvulture]

Yeah it's pretty expensive... but tbh I've never spent much time checking these out. Grabbed my attention, Teej...

[Antlerface]

I used one for an hour or two while waiting for late ass bandmates. Super cool, but I only used the presets the other dude had setup so I didn't mess his shit up. I LOVE synth pedals so I was really dying to dig into it.

When I do my massive downsize soon I will be looking into it again. Even the five or six sounds I tried all had me pretty floored. I went for a Great Divide shortly afterwards. Monophonic synth pedals aren't my thing as it turns out. I'd love to sit with one again. It stomped all over any other "synth" pedals I've tried.

[Teej212]

99.99% chance this is my next purchase. i think theres a lot that can be done with it

[$harkToootth]

99.99% chance this is my next purchase. i think theres a lot that can be done with it

[resincum]

99.99% chance this is my next purchase. i think theres a lot that can be done with it

sky's the limit with the assign functions I really want to mess with one of these

[odontophobia]

Yeah, I would love to do a comprehensive demo of this. Wish I knew somebody who owned one. I know dude from Melt Banana uses one.

[hotknife]

99.99% chance this is my next purchase. i think theres a lot that can be done with it

When are you planning on purchasing it?

*readies calendar for Outward & Generation Loss release estimate

[tremolo3]

Yeah, I would love to do a comprehensive demo of this. Wish I knew somebody who owned one. I know dude from Melt Banana uses one.

Guy from nuito too. dem crazy japs


I've always wanted to get one, but I have the feeling I will sell my H9 and Space, and I don't want to have a 100% Boss board, again.

[chrisdermo]

It takes a LOT of programming to get the good shit out of this pedal. I had one for a few months, it's super deep and versatile, but there are several issues:

Editing and creating patches was a nightmare either on the unit itself or via the computer app.
It has an always on kind of nastyness in the hi mids, if you eq it out you lose your crunch/squelch with the filters.
The oscillators are pretty weedy in comparison to pretty much any synth ever
The possibilities are so deep you can very easily end up writing a kind of self playing patch that really requires very little playing with the guitar/bass.
Getting two extra footswitches (or fs-7)is 100% necessary if you want to change patches with your feet AND program in switchable/momentary stomps to the patches.

That said, it's still really awesome but I'm yet to hear anyone master the thing for anything beyond cheesy 80s garbage, wafty ambient swells or straight monophonic style synth tones which can all be done better with other pedals or actual synths. I think it would take a lot of dedication to pull something really consistently amazing things out of it.

[lordgalvar]

Sounds like a challenge.........





For someone else. Haha. (I say that now, then find a cheap one and go for it)

I'm interested though...Gotta remember to glitch out boss footswitches and CV...They make it too easy.

[$harkToootth]

ambient swells or straight monophonic style synth tones which can all be done better with other pedals or actual synths. I think it would take a lot of dedication to pull something really consistently amazing things out of it.

I've said this in other threads, I kind of hate monophonic synth pedals (not the sounds, but the marketing and 'novelty' [because there isn't any anymore]). I think a lot of the reason they existed was because the market wasn't flooded with affordable monophonic synths (like it is now). If you do not have a synth, I get it but for the times I want to get synth sounds...I use a synth ha-ha. Sometimes people just want swells, and that is why I have a SNEAK ATTACK from MALEKKO. I think the true unique identifier of a synth pedal is envelope shaping and modulation possibilities (beyond filter sweeps). I'm pretty big on wave forms too (as opposed to one square wave).

Of course I am not talking about this pedal. Like Teej said, it seems a lot can be done with this, and like chrisdermo said, it just takes dedication. Then again, for like 65% of the price, you can get an awesome second hand Ensonique ESQ-1 or Roland D-50.

[$harkToootth]

I just watched every demo ever for this. It is deep. Teej, please let us know if you get it.

My only criticism (and this could just youtube audio compression) is the RAW oscillators sound weak. This is coming from someone with a Roland GAIA so I know a thing or two about weak raw sampled waveforms!

[$harkToootth]

While that was very, very cool. I don't think it sounded like a TB 303.

Speaking of that...I've been listening to a lot of JUNE lately (contemporary Acid artist from Berlin)