The patch 2000 is the first syntheziser guitar on the market. It can be just together with most syntherzisers. The patch 2000 is built up around the very popular Hagström Swede guitar.

All the frets and strings are connected to a digital electronic circuit on a small PC-board installed in the guitar body. The frets are ordinary frets and the fingerboard can easily be refretted.

The digital circuit in the guitar is continuously scanning the frets and the strings at a very high speed. When a string is fretted the scanning stops and the digital code informs which string has been fretted and which fret the string contacts. Thus each fret-string combination has its own digital code.

When the Patch 2000 is hooked up to a regular syntheziser you can play the syntheziser just by fretting the strings. The syntheziser will play exactly the same as if it was played from the keyboard.

You can of course play the guitar in the usual way at the same time, but the pick ups and the electronics of the guitar are completely separated from the electronics of the syntheziser.
This makes a very important difference between the Patch 2000 and other syntheziser guitars which have been brought on the market after the Patch2000 was introduced.

You can play the syntheziser with one hand. The response is immediate because it is independent of any stringvibrations. The synthezisernote will sustain until you release the string from the fret.

On the Patch 2000 pedalboard you have two pedals and one footswitch. The left pedal is a PITCH-pedal covering exactly one octave between the "toe-heel" positions. With this pedal you can tune the syntheziser to any tune with respect to the normal guitar tune and "bend" the notes of the syntheziser.

The right pedal is a GLIDE-pedal controlling the time it takes for the syntheziser to glide from one note to another. By pressing the footswitch, positioned between the pedals, you can immediately tune the syntheziser exactly a "fifth" above the normal tune.

On the pick guard of the Swede you find a rocker switch for switching on/off the syntheziser-effects. The Swede guitar is of course provided with the normal standard jacks so you can use the guitar as an ordordinary guitar without the pedal. On the backpanel of the pedal you find all the necessary outputjacks and the power on/off switch.

The Patch 2000 is supplied with all the necessary interconnection cables for most synthezisers on the market. Synthezisers not having the required inputs for the Patch 2000 can in most cases easily be modified by a qualified syntheziser service center.

With the Patch 2000 in mind, the wellknown american syntheziser company Steiner-Parker has developed and recently brought out on the market a small micro syntheziser without the keyboard, but with all the facilities of a "big" syntheziser and with a pricè tag of $300. It is called Microcon.

Some of "the ready to go" synthezisers on the market are:Oberheim, Steiner-Parker, Micro Moog, EMS and some ARP models.