The Librarian software also makes it really easy to do this. You can save all your patches to your computer, then reorder them and re-insert them back onto the 10B.
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Boss GT-10B
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After fiddling around a bit more with this unit I have come to the conclusion that this thing is friggin great... The sound is so clean... Next Sunday I should have enough of it down so that I can take it to church to try it out through the board... but it will be the last link in my rig.. I noticed that it adds so much umph to my sound.. and just plain old loudness.. but not in a bad way.. that I don't have to drive the amp as hard... I cant wait to try this with my rig outdoors...
My band asked me to make a synth sound for a song and I've been experimenting a bit but would like the synth tne to sustain longer, it cuts off to fast. I added a comp and it helped a bit but still could use some more sustain. Any help is welcome, bot to familiar with compression and synth effects....
To sustain the synth sounds I use the "Hold" option, to make the cut-off sound more natural I use delay 
It sounds like you might need to boost the signal going into the synth module. Try putting the compressor in front of the synth. Something like the Boss Limiter with an 8:1 ratio, and play with the output level. I usually do this, plus an eq with the highs rolled off, before the synth, and it helps clean up the tone quite a bit.
The synth on my GT10 lasts for days. Odd.
Anyone want sound samples of a GT-10 for guitar with a fretless bass with a Octave (with low pass on), Delay, Chorus and Reverb effects on?
Anyone want sound samples of a GT-10 for guitar with a fretless bass with a Octave (with low pass on), Delay, Chorus and Reverb effects on?
How's the Octaver on the GT-10B? ...tracking, etc.
I currently have a Roland Bass Cube100, with 'octave bass' setting. It loses tracking of the lower notes rather quickly... not very useful in this regard, but generally not bad otherwise.
KJ
I currently have a Roland Bass Cube100, with 'octave bass' setting. It loses tracking of the lower notes rather quickly... not very useful in this regard, but generally not bad otherwise.
KJ
Currently, there are about 15 patches on the BossGT Central Exchange.
http://bossgtcentral.com/dm/
If any of you guys have developed additional patches, it would be great to have them loaded up to that site. Myself, I'm still learning how to run this thing- I've had it for about 3 weeks and am very impressed so far.
http://bossgtcentral.com/dm/
If any of you guys have developed additional patches, it would be great to have them loaded up to that site. Myself, I'm still learning how to run this thing- I've had it for about 3 weeks and am very impressed so far.
It works fine, but i do like the Pedal Bend effect fixed at an octave better, has a more natural sound to me.How's the Octaver on the GT-10B? ...tracking, etc.
I currently have a Roland Bass Cube100, with 'octave bass' setting. It loses tracking of the lower notes rather quickly... not very useful in this regard, but generally not bad otherwise.
KJ
Yeah - for such an otherwise stellar piece of equipment, the GT-10B is a bit dissapointing in the synth department. If you like the one sound it does (and I do), it does it pretty well - the thunky, quasi-80s left hand keyboard voice. But that's about all you get.
i use the Roland GR-20 synthesizer and the Boss GT-10B together, with the GR-20 synth fed back into the GT-10B effects via the Send/Return return hole.
The GR-20 has all the synth sounds i could ever want, plus it has a hold pedal to sustain a synth note while i play a bass line over it.
If you fiddle with the GT-10B EZ Edit to create a new patch, you will see that some of the Synth sounds don't actuall use the GT-10B synth effect.
Think outside the square box.
The GR-20 has all the synth sounds i could ever want, plus it has a hold pedal to sustain a synth note while i play a bass line over it.
If you fiddle with the GT-10B EZ Edit to create a new patch, you will see that some of the Synth sounds don't actuall use the GT-10B synth effect.
Think outside the square box.
...until you start messing with the other effects and putting them together with your synth.
I agreed at first that it was a bit lackluster in the synth dept (like, they could have at least included the PWM waveform from the SYB-3 and SYB-5).
Once you start putting on chorus, overdrive, preamp models, etc etc, you get a lot more mileage out of the synth.
I dialed up a neat sound the other day: with the channel select in dual mix mode, put a sawtooth synth on ch A, and a phaser on ch B set with a medium depth, fast modulation. Mix to taste. Then I put a delay at the end of the chain, with the high pass filter set so you really only hear it when you dig in hard and jack the filter on the synth into the higher frequencies....
Just gotta think outside the box, as stated above.
I'm not really surprised. My instincts say the problem greencow is experiencing is party due to the fact that there is no input sensitivity control on the synth.
Okay, I just realized this is really sort of doing it the hard way, but worked out better for me at the time I came up with the solution. The easier way might be to tweak the input level of the bass, in the system section. I didn't try this out with the synth, as I would have had to change about 30 other patches to compensate for the increase level... I'm going to give it a whirl though to see how it affects the synth module.
Well I had the signal going into the synth pedal boosted up way high but to no avail. Perhaps the sound hold would work but it would mean constantly stepping on a pedal(?)
I then decided to make my own synth. Started with heavy compression going into an octaver, added an envelope and some chorus. Then decided to try some OD before the octaver, Gain set to about 40, just a lil bit of dirt. Cut of some of the highs with an EQ. The final touch was a slight delay. The end result was certainly something I cold use for long sustained creepysounding notes. (I was looking for something that sounds bizzarre). i also realized that using only some of the effects listed above one can make a viable synth sound, and I didn't even touch the Phaser, Flanger and all those other FX...
Still if someone figures out a way to make the synth sustain for long notes I'd apreciate a post in this thread.
I then decided to make my own synth. Started with heavy compression going into an octaver, added an envelope and some chorus. Then decided to try some OD before the octaver, Gain set to about 40, just a lil bit of dirt. Cut of some of the highs with an EQ. The final touch was a slight delay. The end result was certainly something I cold use for long sustained creepysounding notes. (I was looking for something that sounds bizzarre). i also realized that using only some of the effects listed above one can make a viable synth sound, and I didn't even touch the Phaser, Flanger and all those other FX...
Still if someone figures out a way to make the synth sustain for long notes I'd apreciate a post in this thread.
You can program a CTL pedal to switch the Pedal Hold to on/off instead of Toggle, so you would only have to press the CTL once and than the synth continuous forever, if you want it to stop you would have to press the CTL again...
I use the sound as a replacement for my old Taurus, but I rarely have to use the Pedal Hold function, the sustain from the synth is long enough, perhaps the output signal from your bass is not enough?
I'm a bit stumped by now... Could someone post an example of a synth sound settings that would sustain for about 10 sec or so? I just don't get it, every synth tone I make only sustains for a certain amount of time even if the signal going into synth runs through heavy compression and a booster pedal.....
How about posting a clip of your bass sustaining for 10 sec?
Seriously, not matter how much you tweak the sound, it's still going to be limited by what your bass can do - I'm not saying 10 is totally unreasonable, but even at their best, neither of my current basses sustain for much more than 6 or 7 sec. Compressing will bring the lowest signal high enough to be functional, but once the string stops moving, it's game over.
Try the hold function, before the synth.
Seriously, not matter how much you tweak the sound, it's still going to be limited by what your bass can do - I'm not saying 10 is totally unreasonable, but even at their best, neither of my current basses sustain for much more than 6 or 7 sec. Compressing will bring the lowest signal high enough to be functional, but once the string stops moving, it's game over.
Try the hold function, before the synth.
