Cool. I've had the SY-300 for awhile and have been using it for subtle effects on guitar but have not tried it yet on my Yamaha silent cello... but I sure will now. I really liked that last patch. The challenge for me will be in composing with it. I find that using a looping pedal helps as you can quickly experiment with combinations of patches - but I need to take notes !
Super demo! Been a synth and guitar player for years. Very impressed with how you explain on the way the synth engine operates! :) I have to try one of these with my electric violin! This sounds better than some of my analog synths. It is actually a hybrid synth using the strings as analog resonators as how a transistor oscillator produces a frequency. Keep the videos coming!!
Hi! Just purchased the SY-300 and pedal. Thanks for all the info! You should get some royalties on sales! LOL Just the type of different sound I was looking for in my music! Have a great day!
Good demo, thanks, allows a better insight into the pedal from a technical perspective. I would be interested to know how easy or not it is to replicate the sounds available on the EHX SYNTH9 Pedal which has just been announced today.
Thanks. It's hard to tell how well it would emulate another pedal. The SY-300 is very versatile but it's not really there to emulate 'vintage' sounds, it's unapologetically a modern digital synth/pedal I think.
Wow! Mine is on the way. It appears I will be doing a fair amount of tweaking. I like the idea of the drone effect. I will be able to sell the SY1 and the Harmonist, and possibly the Super Ego +, too. Thanks!
Thank you for this video chrissie, it was very insightfull ! i do have a qustion...Have you explored the microtonal possibiliets of the sy 300? i play the electric oud and im thinking of purcesing the boss sy300 but im not sure weather the usage of quarter tones or even smaller intervals would come out the same as equal temperment notes. does it track note which played "out of tune"? thank you!
Hi Maxim, Yes the Boss will track microtonal notes. If you pay 'out of tune' on the violin, then the synth plays the same pitch. It even tracks glissandi on the violin! I don't know what the resolution is, but when I do a gliss it sounds very smooth so I'm pretty sure it'll work for non-western pitch systems.
maxim shed It works great with all microtones since the string is the actual sound source Check out brakophonic.bandcamp.com/track/the-wailing-wall Solo SY-300 fretless guitar
thank you for this!,i am a guitar player that plays violin and keyboards a TON more these days than guitar,i was wondering how this would sound with my violin :D!!
colleagues, what would sound better electric violin Yamaha sv-130 + boss sy-300 or midi violin + roland gr-55? I want to play the sound of a synthesizer.
I've tried a few audio-to-MIDI products and they rarely work well with violin. The soft attack and high number of harmonics seem make it very difficult to 'track'. That's why I was so impressed with the SY-300. In general though, the newer the product the better it's likely to be.
Wasn't me! And I notice you actually say that in the video too. I guess I should listen better. :) Unlike other synths that depend entirely on pitch recognition (with its inherent latency), it seems to be working off the inputted waveform, which in the case of the violin is obviously much more harmonically rich. Fun! Kind regards, Daniel
Thanks! It's hard to say for sure how well it will work with an acoustic instrument, but my guess is that it will be fine - it works with my octave electric and that has enough harmonics in it to knock out a rhinocerous so if it can cope with that, a viola - provided you're using a pickup and not a mic, should be easy, I suspect :)
Thanks, I like you other videos very much! Yes I have a Schertler pickup with a Boss ME-70 and a Digitech RP-350 multieffects units. Do you think the best solution using multieffects units or the SY-300 will be an electric instrument with less harmonics than an acoustic? Thanks again.
It's hard for me to be sure without trying it. Tell you what, I'll plug my acoustic violin into the SY-300 over the weekend and see how it responds - I have a Headway Band pickup rather than a Schertler but I expect the results will be similar
Here's my acoustic violin video! ua-cam.com/video/DveLMyg6A2Q/v-deo.html BTW Don't expect much of a response from me on Facebook, I haven't logged in there for about a year...
Christie music doesn't sound any better now than it did 50 years ago. Synths have occasionally been good by accident e.g. Tb303 but overall a blind alley.the manufacturers just churn them out but rarely innovate. Guitarists have banks of pedals that make their lovely guitars scound awful..all these types of things promise control and that's not good, less control would be better cMusicians are looking for safety But it's a better not to have it. Digital apps can be great but are best when used to make something you ne'er before could do.sorry for writing such dull shit, I'm bored tired and suicidal. Not suicidal but totally tired of the undead hounding me ever more dangerous as they capitulate to e vil. My brother Anthony Roberts mentioning no names has become something terrible , not just obeying evil but colluding keenly. This time next year either he or I will be dead and I hope it's him. So I'm not suicidal just murderous haha but my god why why why. I'm sorry it says Christie at the strart btw
It's not about sounding better IMO. It's about getting the sounds one wants to hear. If I just wanted piano, I would get a piano, or a reasonable piano emulator. And rock and roll was driven by experimentation and electronic music even more so. One could argue music evolves quite a lot over time - hip hop, not something I like much myself, but is massively popular, seems to be no older than the 1970s. But we don't lose styles necessarily. I enjoy a night at the symphony as much as a night at a rock concert, or a night listening to electronic music. Music evolves, but doesn't obsolete really. People still play old time music, for example, just not as many as play country
Yeah I get it, you don't care about music and won't give anything to anyone unless for a profit. WE don't need shit gadgets that sound as dismal as anything ever possibly could, we need people who give a shit and can pour love and soul into their music. Get out cynics you stain the world with your loatrhing of beauty, your desire to kill it. Maybe its too late music may be dead it don't sound too healthty.
Me? I love music. Been listening to it a long time. Rock, alternative, electronic, classical, jazz, blues, pop, disco, whatever. Just don't make me listen to country, unless it's old time music. And hip hop is typically annoying to me because so much of it has no soul and is shallow and otherwise has no appeal. But there's good hip hop, to be sure
you know there were folk musicians who rallied against the use of electric guitars right? they think the electric guitar stole all the soul out of the acoustic guitar. That's you, just in a different era, and yet the world keeps turning and technology keeps on progressing. Also why are you on the internet, shouldn't you be writing hand written letters? all this typing words using shit gadgets really stops you pouring your heart and soul into a piece of parchment with an ink quill.
No it isn't. I 've got tech gear coming out of everywhere. I have used Ableton Live since it started in 2003 and that has been the basis of music production ever since, a sometimes frustrating but overall fab DAW. I have owned Roland Tb303, Tr909, Juno 106, Jupiter 8 ,a massive list of tech gear last week I waved goodbye to my Korg Monopoly albeit in return for a good wad od cash. But I spent some of that on a Novation Circuit.Some instruments I have found to have amazing sound production and not always the well known ones. But the point I was making was that none of this will produce anything for you that is any good unless you put yourself into it too. And some of them hold out that false dram of music production that requires nothing from you. It is now 2017 - how do the great albums and tracks of 2010-2017 compare to those of 1960-7 or 1970-77 ? Nowhere, there is still great music being made including by Chrissie herself. But there is a lack of courage and belief generally that is stifling innovation and I think tech can be a distraction that is part of it. If you have a point to make try and just make it without personal remarks. I know this is youtube but a discussion about music is possible without it.
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Cool. I've had the SY-300 for awhile and have been using it for subtle effects on guitar but have not tried it yet on my Yamaha silent cello... but I sure will now. I really liked that last patch. The challenge for me will be in composing with it. I find that using a looping pedal helps as you can quickly experiment with combinations of patches - but I need to take notes !
Super demo! Been a synth and guitar player for years. Very impressed with how you explain on the way the synth engine operates! :) I have to try one of these with my electric violin! This sounds better than some of my analog synths. It is actually a hybrid synth using the strings as analog resonators as how a transistor oscillator produces a frequency. Keep the videos coming!!
Thanks! I have another video coming up about some of my odder pedals, and the SY-300 also features again :)
Hi! Just purchased the SY-300 and pedal. Thanks for all the info! You should get some royalties on sales! LOL Just the type of different sound I was looking for in my music!
Have a great day!
wow great video. I have one of these and you've given me some new ideas how to use it.
Great! and thanks :)
I found this video looking for nylon guitar + Boss SY-300. Thumbs up.
Good demo, thanks, allows a better insight into the pedal from a technical perspective. I would be interested to know how easy or not it is to replicate the sounds available on the EHX SYNTH9 Pedal which has just been announced today.
Thanks. It's hard to tell how well it would emulate another pedal. The SY-300 is very versatile but it's not really there to emulate 'vintage' sounds, it's unapologetically a modern digital synth/pedal I think.
Wow! Mine is on the way. It appears I will be doing a fair amount of tweaking. I like the idea of the drone effect. I will be able to sell the SY1 and the Harmonist, and possibly the Super Ego +, too. Thanks!
Enjoy, it's an amazing device :)
@@ChrissieCaulfield I really love your playing, btw. I will check out your page, for more.
@@sandyturner1911 Thanks. chrissie.bandcamp.com !
Thank you for this video chrissie, it was very insightfull ! i do have a qustion...Have you explored the microtonal possibiliets of the sy 300? i play the electric oud and im thinking of purcesing the boss sy300 but im not sure weather the usage of quarter tones or even smaller intervals would come out the same as equal temperment notes. does it track note which played "out of tune"? thank you!
Hi Maxim, Yes the Boss will track microtonal notes. If you pay 'out of tune' on the violin, then the synth plays the same pitch. It even tracks glissandi on the violin! I don't know what the resolution is, but when I do a gliss it sounds very smooth so I'm pretty sure it'll work for non-western pitch systems.
thanks!
maxim shed
It works great with all microtones since the string is the actual sound source
Check out
brakophonic.bandcamp.com/track/the-wailing-wall
Solo SY-300 fretless guitar
thank you for this!,i am a guitar player that plays violin and keyboards a TON more these days than guitar,i was wondering how this would sound with my violin :D!!
Incredible!!
colleagues, what would sound better electric violin Yamaha sv-130 + boss sy-300 or midi violin + roland gr-55? I want to play the sound of a synthesizer.
I've tried a few audio-to-MIDI products and they rarely work well with violin. The soft attack and high number of harmonics seem make it very difficult to 'track'. That's why I was so impressed with the SY-300. In general though, the newer the product the better it's likely to be.
Thanks for the feedback,I'm now confident in buying this device.Soon will buy it and will expand the possibilities of their sound!
Better suited to violin than guitar, me thinks. Yay expanded palette!
That's actually what the guy in the shop (a guitarist) said :)
Wasn't me! And I notice you actually say that in the video too. I guess I should listen better. :) Unlike other synths that depend entirely on pitch recognition (with its inherent latency), it seems to be working off the inputted waveform, which in the case of the violin is obviously much more harmonically rich. Fun! Kind regards, Daniel
Very inspiring, thanks a lot! I play acoustic viola with a pickup. Do you think the acoustic instrument will work as well as the electric one? Thanks!
Thanks!
It's hard to say for sure how well it will work with an acoustic instrument, but my guess is that it will be fine - it works with my octave electric and that has enough harmonics in it to knock out a rhinocerous so if it can cope with that, a viola - provided you're using a pickup and not a mic, should be easy, I suspect :)
Thanks, I like you other videos very much! Yes I have a Schertler pickup with a Boss ME-70 and a Digitech RP-350 multieffects units. Do you think the best solution using multieffects units or the SY-300 will be an electric instrument with less harmonics than an acoustic? Thanks again.
It's hard for me to be sure without trying it. Tell you what, I'll plug my acoustic violin into the SY-300 over the weekend and see how it responds - I have a Headway Band pickup rather than a Schertler but I expect the results will be similar
Thank you very much! I will wait for your reply. I also added you as a friend on Facebook (Chris Mengos is my name).
Here's my acoustic violin video! ua-cam.com/video/DveLMyg6A2Q/v-deo.html
BTW Don't expect much of a response from me on Facebook, I haven't logged in there for about a year...
needs less high-end, more bass and mids.
Have 2 agree reluctantly & I’m a guitarist. Jazz, Jazz-fusion, Progressive-jazz, Jazzy-Electronica ... hmmmm🤔
Christie music doesn't sound any better now than it did 50 years ago. Synths have occasionally been good by accident e.g. Tb303 but overall a blind alley.the manufacturers just churn them out but rarely innovate. Guitarists have banks of pedals that make their lovely guitars scound awful..all these types of things promise control and that's not good, less control would be better cMusicians are looking for safety
But it's a better not to have it. Digital apps can be great but are best when used to make something you ne'er before could do.sorry for writing such dull shit, I'm bored tired and suicidal. Not suicidal but totally tired of the undead hounding me ever more dangerous as they capitulate to e vil. My brother Anthony Roberts mentioning no names has become something terrible , not just obeying evil but colluding keenly. This time next year either he or I will be dead and I hope it's him. So I'm not suicidal just murderous haha but my god why why why. I'm sorry it says Christie at the strart btw
It's not about sounding better IMO. It's about getting the sounds one wants to hear. If I just wanted piano, I would get a piano, or a reasonable piano emulator. And rock and roll was driven by experimentation and electronic music even more so. One could argue music evolves quite a lot over time - hip hop, not something I like much myself, but is massively popular, seems to be no older than the 1970s. But we don't lose styles necessarily. I enjoy a night at the symphony as much as a night at a rock concert, or a night listening to electronic music. Music evolves, but doesn't obsolete really. People still play old time music, for example, just not as many as play country
Yeah I get it, you don't care about music and won't give anything to anyone unless for a profit. WE don't need shit gadgets that sound as dismal as anything ever possibly could, we need people who give a shit and can pour love and soul into their music. Get out cynics you stain the world with your loatrhing of beauty, your desire to kill it. Maybe its too late music may be dead it don't sound too healthty.
Me? I love music. Been listening to it a long time. Rock, alternative, electronic, classical, jazz, blues, pop, disco, whatever. Just don't make me listen to country, unless it's old time music. And hip hop is typically annoying to me because so much of it has no soul and is shallow and otherwise has no appeal. But there's good hip hop, to be sure
you know there were folk musicians who rallied against the use of electric guitars right? they think the electric guitar stole all the soul out of the acoustic guitar.
That's you, just in a different era, and yet the world keeps turning and technology keeps on progressing.
Also why are you on the internet, shouldn't you be writing hand written letters? all this typing words using shit gadgets really stops you pouring your heart and soul into a piece of parchment with an ink quill.
No it isn't. I 've got tech gear coming out of everywhere. I have used Ableton Live since it started in 2003 and that has been the basis of music production ever since, a sometimes frustrating but overall fab DAW. I have owned Roland Tb303, Tr909, Juno 106, Jupiter 8 ,a massive list of tech gear last week I waved goodbye to my Korg Monopoly albeit in return for a good wad od cash. But I spent some of that on a Novation Circuit.Some instruments I have found to have amazing sound production and not always the well known ones. But the point I was making was that none of this will produce anything for you that is any good unless you put yourself into it too. And some of them hold out that false dram of music production that requires nothing from you. It is now 2017 - how do the great albums and tracks of 2010-2017 compare to those of 1960-7 or 1970-77 ? Nowhere, there is still great music being made including by Chrissie herself. But there is a lack of courage and belief generally that is stifling innovation and I think tech can be a distraction that is part of it.
If you have a point to make try and just make it without personal remarks. I know this is youtube but a discussion about music is possible without it.