General SY-300 stuff

To get this page of the ground I’ll start sharing some of my SY-300 patches. For those who aren’t familiar: The SY-300 is a guitar synth made by Boss, which has the unique property of being polyphonic without needing to use a special pickup on the guitar. Internally it is basically a virtual analogue synth with three oscillators, which can also output the raw guitar signal and each contain a hard-wired filter and two LFOs. Further, there are multiple routing options for four additional effects, which include (almost) everything you need for guitar signal processing, including distortion and amp simulations. Because it’s that flexible (and I take and engineer’s approach to guitar sounds) I use the SY-300 for all my guitar and synth sounds (no amp or other modeling devices). The only additional pedals I use at the moment are a wah-pedal (Ibanez WD7; tweakable filter parameters FTW) and a reverb pedal (Walrus Audio Fathom). The latter is there to free up virtual space in the SY-300’s signal tree and because I like a convenient way to disable reverb for e.g. studio sessions.

To use the patches I share you’ll have to know how my SY-300 is routed externally, or else you may miss some of the features: I use an MIDI controller (Source Audio Soleman) to switch patches so I can configure CTL2 and CTL3 to do other stuff for each patch. I also use an expression pedal, which is connected using the EXP input. The Soleman is configured to output tap-tempo controlled MINI clock, so most timing based effects (LFOs, etc.) are synchronized to that. In case you didn’t know how to do that: Just twist the respective knob all the way to the right for some note value based timing options.