GR 300

TheRoland GR-300is an analogguitar synthesizermanufactured byRoland Corporation. It was introduced to market in 1980. The GR-300 was considered the first "playable" guitar synthesizer. (Its predecessor, the GR-500, was plagued with tracking problems that rendered it virtually unplayable). The GR-300 had noMIDI(it had not been developed yet) and could initially only be played/controlled with a Roland G series guitar controller (Originally offered with the G-303, G-505 and G-808, later the G-202 and it was backward-compatible with the G-707 and the GK-1 pickup system, released a few years later. Some guitar manufacturers like Gibson and Fender would later release "Roland Ready" guitars with the necessary electronics installed to use with the early Roland guitar synthesizers).