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It took 3 months to get it, but it was worth the wait. I absolutely love this pedal. It finally arrived today and I've been playing it for 5 hours straight. It has a variety of good usable keyboard sounds that are easier to play than any other device I've tried to use. (tracking, polyphony and latency aren't an issue) That being said, the real shocker to me was what happened when I started mixing the guitar tone back in through an amp on the crunch channel. This turned into the most amazing fuzz / delay / univibe setup ever!! Many of the settings and sounds on the pedal have effects on them to create a more authentic keyboard sound but when you blend in guitar and run it through a mild / moderate crunch tone it is magical!! Seriously, even if you don't care about playing synth sounds this thing is a must own! I normally try to balance the good and bad in a review but I just have nothing bad to say at all.

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I would consider myself your garden variety guitar player. I play rhythm and lead in a rock cover band and do some ambient and prog stuff on my own and this fits right in with the rest of the gear on my pedalboard. I’ve tried a few other guitar synth pedals from Boss, Meris, and Source Audio and ended up going back to this one because it fits my style and needs the best. The tracking is very, very good. In my humble opinion it tracks better than the C4. I’m not Alex Hutchings but I can play moderately fast and it keeps up with no issues. Compared to other synth pedals this is much more straightforward but also much more limited in sounds. It’s very 80’s vs some of the more experimental sounds you can get out of the others, but that’s what I was looking for. If you are looking for bleeps and boops sounds or want deep editing, this pedal probably isn’t for you. If you are looking for a more traditional GR style sounding synth then this is definitely worth checking out.

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First - I had a GK-10 rig into an SC-88 in the 90s. As complex and finicky as that rig was I was able to put it to good use. That's my reference point.The SY-1 tracks better and responds to playing/picking nuances WAY better than the old 90s synth, without the extra cables and special pickup. I bought the SY-1 mostly for the organ sounds, also for whatever pads it had. I am completely happy with the realism of the Hammond-esque sounds I am hearing out of this peddle. The string and pad sounds are useful as well.I have been mixing organ/guitar at the 50/50 setting, strumming at the beginning of a chord change, holding the organ with the foot pedal, and then continuing to strum and solo over the now-background organ. Effective. I haven't yet tried 100% organ comping or soloing. Eventually I'll advance to that.The strings and pad voicings I've been mixing around 33%/66% synth/guitar to add depth and texture to my rhythm playing. So far audience response has been positive, with more than one person saying they were wondering where the synth sounds were coming from

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I had expectations for this pedal hoping just half of what I imagined it could do for me as an ambient side chain. I just really hated it, it was a next day send back, And I waited over 2mos to get one! Maybe some will like it or manage to get something out of it. I used to have a GR-55 rig and I loved that thing. Now, to be honest I am not a Boss fan and have not really touched a Boss pedal in ages, I did opt for the Waza Dimension C which is in my view much better and optioned than the original could ever hope to be. So SY1, seemed wicked cool, sucked in by the apparent doctored vids one sees. To me it was comparable to a Ring Mod of noises and tones w a sequencer, a collage of what for me was a lot of non-musical unusable stuff. But to each his own I guess. Boss seems to have some nice stuff w their new smaller DD pedals but I have no need for much stuff these days. I am loaded up Fractal FX8 effects and array of preamp/amp in a box pedals. Thought the SY1 would be a nice goof, it was a send back for me. I wish all of you better luck.

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