Chicago Music Exchange | 1 year ago

Turn the volume up to hear how these bad boys sound! While we’ve had a handful of these Roland GR-300 guitars and GR-303 basses come through CME’s vintage and used inventory, this is the first time we’ve ever had them side-by-side! Built by one of the pioneering brands of the synth takeover of the 70's and 80's and featuring craftsmanship that rivals even the best boutique guitar brands of the era, this synth guitar and synth bass incorporated the latest synthesizer technologies of the day into the most popular instrument styles of the ‘50s and ‘60s to offer players in the ‘80s a totally expansive tonal palette!

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More About the GR-300!
The GR-300 was considered the first "playable" guitar synthesizer. (Its predecessor, the GR-500, was plagued with tracking problems that rendered it virtually unplayable.) 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 (complete with carrying handles). 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 (basically audio compression). Built-in footswitches controlled the VCO mode (single/dual), the VCO harmonize pitch (detuning of the VCO's), and the VCF mode (on, bypass, or inverted). 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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Notable players of this guitar!
Pat Metheny
Chuck Hammer
Robert Fripp
Andy Summers
Adrian Belew
Charly García
Shawn Lane
Kazumi Watanabe
David Byrne
Jimmy Page
Pete Townshend
Trevor Rabin
Jeff Beck

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Songs Played:
"Thus Spake Zarathustra" From 2001: Space Odyssey
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Eurythmics
"Axel F" - Harold Faltermeyer
"Last Train Home" Pat Metheny
"Separate Worlds" Journey
"Africa" Toto
"Jump" Van Halen

Additional Gear Used:
Roland KC-600
Fender '65 Reissue Princeton Reverb

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