Boss SY-300: How To Program Patches (Distortion)

In this video we go through the steps to program a Distortion Patch on the Boss SY-300 Guitar Synthesizer. Follow me through the process so you can program patches for yourself and even create your own unique sounds and save them to a patch number!
All question and comments welcome.

[GuitarAge]

The best and the most demanded topic about SY-300. Nobody shows guitar related details just flaying spaces in every reviews and demos, thanks a lot.

[demastrieful]

I never used my SY-300 much until I started looking at it like a custom effects pedal design platform. Great video. I do most of what you're doing, but I've never turned off filters, etc. on the OSC! Can't wait to go see if that makes an improvements on my current patches.

[stevejohn]

By far the best explanation of sy300 👍

[tomace]

Hi Paul thank you so much. The way you explained program patches should be on the Boss homepage. Great!!!

[jancornelisse]

Great job mate! Very informative.😀Thanks a lot !

[barryberko]

hi paul and thanks for the great video. i'm a bit of a technophobe and your calm and slow explanation truly helped me get over my anxiety and started with my new synth. i hope you make some more videos going more in depth with this amazing machine. i'd love to see you demonstrate programming the oscillators. cheers from tel aviv

[rrigs]

Really useful video - thanks for making it

[mohammad-rnsu]

Although I am late to view this video, I really appreciate how great you shared for a very clear explanation on the basic operation of creating distort/metal sound, and with that I am very thankful. I will be combining this with the synth in OSC. The other way around, if I feel lazy to manipulate, I will add distortion pedal or onother multi effect pedal in the thru-send option.

[antduke]

Thank you...you have saved my sanity...

[NeinFeline]

Thanks for putting this vid together... I've been wondering if we could make distortion with these for awhile.

[grahamcharlton]

Very clear and useful. A daft question - does the unit retain the new patch you've made after it's switched off at the mains?

[VideoGuitarLessons]

I've also set up distortion by turning off all oscillators and moving the effects in the signal chain

[simonrabeder]

would you say I could also use th sy-300 for DI and reaping purposes. That would justify the thing a little better for me.

[josephbond]

Paul, is there an instructional video or web page somewhere where I can see how to create a patch that just has effects only, such as a clean guitar patch with just chorus, flange or phaser on it? Cheers! :)

[jakoblindekilde]

Hi Paul. Seen a lot of you good videos. Please keep them comming!
Sometimes you are low (in volume). Mayby you can turn up the mike?

[JORR]

Hello Paul, nice work! Maybe you can help me... I have a Sy 300 and a Boss FV 500 L pedal. I followed the instructions to set up my BOSS FV500L as an expression pedal, but it does not work. Could you help me please? Thank you very much!!!

[kirkniles]

Hey Paul. I followed your tutorial here but when I press the On/Off footswitch, there's no sound until I press for On. How can it be set so that when the user preset is in bypass/Off, there is still sound? Thanks....or can anyone else reading this respond?

[VideoGuitarLessons]

Software available to edit I find pretty good but slowish on my older computer.

[Duke_Silver]

Where are the results for the Scale lenght test that you did A YEAR AGO???

[kirkniles]

Paul, I just got my SY-300 today. I've been going thru the presets. I like some, have to edit some and want to customize some. BUT....this is my main FX unit, so how do i set it up like a regular MFX with say, U01 giving me 3 different "stomp FX" e.g.. Chorus, Chorus + Synth, Synth + Overdrive. Thanks for your response.