I ’ m going to start with the big blue Boss beast that learns and interprets a guitar signal on so many levels it ’ s almost frightening . This one-of-a-kind pedal is as immediately pleasing or as deeply perplexing as one wishes to explore . While Boss is always secretive about the inner workings of its pedals ( who can blame it after all the copies of their designs over the years ) I am guessing the technology under the hood has something to do with its proprietary Multi-Dimensional Processing , because the SY-300 takes a regular guitar signal and applies polyphonic pitch tracking to it before allocating the different frequencies to different simultaneous sound parameters . How it does this with no latency is way beyond my speculative theorizing abilities , but who cares when you can sculpt this many otherworldly sounds , right ?
Let ’ s take patch P64 (“ Low Wobble ”) for example . As the string is struck , an undulating atmosphere presents itself in many different dimensions . A lower octave tracks with the strings , garnished by a swept-filter of sorts that intensifies based on picking attack . The resonance snakes , peaks and harmonizes ever-so-slightly as the note decays , like tweaking both the cutoff filter and one of the oscillators simultaneously on a Moog synthesizer . There is even a slight delay effect thrown in for good measure . This would make a fantastically wicked pad for darker song intros or breakdown backdrops . The SY-300 is a smart pedal that can not only be programmed to do almost anything , but also learns and adapts constantly .
BOSS SY-300
I ’ m going to start with the big blue Boss beast that learns and interprets a guitar signal on so many levels it ’ s almost frightening . This one-of-a-kind pedal is as immediately pleasing or as deeply perplexing as one wishes to explore . While Boss is always secretive about the inner workings of its pedals ( who can blame it after all the copies of their designs over the years ) I am guessing the technology under the hood has something to do with its proprietary Multi-Dimensional Processing , because the SY-300 takes a regular guitar signal and applies polyphonic pitch tracking to it before allocating the different frequencies to different simultaneous sound parameters . How it does this with no latency is way beyond my speculative theorizing abilities , but who cares when you can sculpt this many otherworldly sounds , right ?
Let ’ s take patch P64 (“ Low Wobble ”) for example . As the string is struck , an undulating atmosphere presents itself in many different dimensions . A lower octave tracks with the strings , garnished by a swept-filter of sorts that intensifies based on picking attack . The resonance snakes , peaks and harmonizes ever-so-slightly as the note decays , like tweaking both the cutoff filter and one of the oscillators simultaneously on a Moog synthesizer . There is even a slight delay effect thrown in for good measure . This would make a fantastically wicked pad for darker song intros or breakdown backdrops . The SY-300 is a smart pedal that can not only be programmed to do almost anything , but also learns and adapts constantly .