From heavy metal to pop, the guitar synthesizer is one of the most commonly used additions for any guitar player. It’s what gives rock songs that piercing distortion and the woeful tones to the blues.

Steve Stevens recalls the day he made an arrangement to debut Roland’s revolutionary GR-707 guitar synthesizer to America’s guitarists. It happened while he and Billy Idol were in Japan promoting Idol ...

Roland has outed its latest synth, though you won't find a keyboard attached. The Roland GR-55 is a guitar synthesizer, coupling PCM synthesis with digital instrument modeling to allow guitarists to ...

There's more than one way to turn a guitar into a synthesizer. But Boss and Roland have always gone for the most elaborate and complicated approach. While the new SY-1000 can be played simply by ...

Watch this video on YouTube. “Offering a universe of rich, analog-inspired polyphonic tones in a small footprint, the SY-200 makes it simple to weave BOSS’s expressive guitar and bass synth technology ...