Well, it finally happened. I've got a new toy and it's magnificent.

I've had my eye on one of these for a long time so when this popped up on Reverb at a bargain price I just had to throw caution to the wind. I've used the BOSS GP-10 for many years but the synth sounds on that unit are slightly disappointing, tending towards the farty monosynth and grainy wavetable ends of the spectrum. The SY-1000 is a big improvement, still not as great as a dedicated keyboard synth but really impressive nonetheless. Tracking is superb and while it is still capable of the odd bum note if you get sloppy it still responds to subtle and not-so-subtle playing. It's already connected to my pedalboard over USB MIDI so things like delay times, slicers and even synth LFO's run in sync with MIDI clock. Video demo to follow. And no, I haven't tried plugging it through the Eventide pedals just yet but it's only a matter of time.