Roland GR-300 Guitar Synth
"Moreover, Pat Metheny was the first guitarist who overcame a new instrument which took a high level in the Fusion music : the guitar synthesizer.
Click on the opposite photo to discover this master piece of technology. Pat is using the system Roland. This guitar is interfaced with the most exciting and complex sampler ever built : the synclavier.
The Pat Metheny Group is a massive user of samples in its music (instrumental parts recorded in a studio and played live by the synclavier)."
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"This is one of the older guitar synthesizers (circa 1979) which Metheny debuted on his 1982 release OffRamp. The guitarist has used the GR-300 extensively ever since then. Roland has unfortunately long discontinued production of the model.
Says Pat Metheny: "...the GR-300 was the first and, for a long time, only guitar synth that had a musical quality to it. Every little nuance and detail of what you did came out through the instrument, in terms of touch, attack, dynamics, etc. And this was because it had nothing to do with MIDI."
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