Roland G-202 Guitar Synth Controller & GR-300 Synth

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"Rare & fine Vintage Roland Guitar Synth set features the GR-300 Polyphonic Guitar Synthesizer floor unit, 24 pin connecting cable and G-202 Guitar Controller (with it’s original hardshell case) in excellent original condition. This outfit looks, plays, and functions fine. These older analog units are prized for their quick synth latencies, great analog and hex tones, and are famously used by artists like Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin, Adrian Belew, and Robert Fripp to get some amazing, unique sounds. The G-202 Guitar Synth Controller is a solid-body, offset double cutaway body with bolt-on solid maple neck, Gotoh tuners, dual Roland PU-120H humbucking pickups, built-in hex pickup, onboard synth controller electronics, Controls: guitar volume, tone, synthesizer VCF cutoff, guitar/synth mix, VCF resonance (feedback) and LFO depth (synth vibrato). Fully adjustable Hardtail Bridge. Guitar shows light player wear & one small paint chip; that’s about it. The GR-300 Guitar Synthesizer has six VCOs (one per string) that are controlled by the string pitches as well as hexa-fuzz plus an LFO, tuning presets and some control over the attack of each note. You can apply vibrato to open strings, secondly each string can now produce two notes (one from the divided pickup and one from a VCO). The pitch of the VCO's can be offset by two preset controls that can be selected by footswitches. Envelope attack can be slowed down and the strings that will have a synthesized tone on them can be individually selected. There is a compression on/off switch as well. Many of these functions can be selected by footswitches; the LEDs flash if the function is off or steady if the function is on. The GR-300 combined with the GK1 pickup offers clean and fast tracking and this system are still considered one of the greatest guitar synths ever manufactured. The floor unit looks good and shows light wear. It seems like the ENV INV led doesn’t light though the footswitch works fine."