Roland GR-300


The Roland GR-300 is a guitar synthesizer manufactured by Roland Corporation.
The GR-300 was considered the first "playable" guitar synthesizer. The GR-300 had no MIDI and could only be played through a GR-300 series guitar controller.
The actual synthesizer module sat on the floor and had the rugged appearance of a large guitar-type foot pedal. It featured 6-voice polyphony, one voice per string and 2 oscillators per voice. Each pair of VCOs were harmonically locked to each string but could be tuned separately to play different pitches. The GR-300 also featured a VCF with variable lengthsweep up and down, and an LFO. Each string had an enable-disable switch as well as a string sensitivity switch. Built-in footswitches controlled the VCO mode, the VCO harmonize pitch, and the VCF mode. There was also a pedal control input for the VCF. The GR-300 could output either the guitar, the synth, or a mix of the two.

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