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So this seems like an intended successor to the VG99. Sounds like more bang for the buck, more features, maybe better configuration... The VG-99 put me off due mostly to the severe treatment of my dry signal... even taking a line from the so-called "dry" out on the thing produced something so shrill, so far from my real tone, that it was useless in any part of my serial chain... and i did not want to wag the dog by making a bypass loop just for the thing. I guess in the end I love the sound of my fingers on my strings on my guitar, and the Roland treatment of the signal made me feel too far from those elements. Is there a true dry path in the GR-55? And... I guess I better look to see what the GR-55 is doing to the resale value of the VG-99, hope it's not too late to recoup some cost there :) Phil :) On Sep 18, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Per Boysen wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 8:31 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> >> wrote: >>> get playing with the f***ing >>> guitar synth... some of us wanna know what you think... OK? >> > > > Ok, the short answer is I think it is very good. Great value for its > price. > > Here's the long story. It offers four simultaneous sounds: (1) Your > guitar's magnetic PU, "Normal Sound", that can be cabled through the > GK PU, (2) the modeling sound (Cosm) and two synth tones. There is one > set of optional effects to slap over the two synth tones and another > set of more "global" effects (reverb, delay etc) that affects > everything, if used. You can control parameters by a control > button/pad and an expression pedal. A third control option is pressing > the expression pedal hard toe down (like enabling a wha pedal). It > seems like most parameters can be controlled; so far I tried to set up > the delay at maximum delay time (3400 ms or one whole note) and > binding its on/off state to the control pad and delay feedback to the > expression pedal (set to range zero to full feedback), worked well for > simple delay live looping. > > Another interesting thing, I haven't tried out yet, is that you can > connect it to a laptop by USB and pipe the audio through the lappy for > further processing etc. On a Mac there is a way to set up an > "aggregate device" so you can use two audio interfaced and this means > the GR-55 can be set as the audio input for an application while the > usual interface is used as the output. > > I'm not sure about how it sounds yet, since the best listening I have > access to where I am now is my in-ear headphones. But as I said, > tweaking options are massive! All amp/cab sims have parameters for > gain, bass, mid, treble and presence. The cosm sounds all sound a bit > lamish but I think they can be useful if layered behind the real PU > sound. Synth sounds are good. My feeling though is that I get a better > clean PU sound with plugins on my laptop than with the GR-55, but that > is personal taste and also biased by the fact that I use the GR-55 > with a Stick and not with a guitar. > > There are a lot of tempo synced effects that I have fully not tried > out yet, so you can MIDI slave sync the GR-55 from a looper and > overdub "rhythmic pads" and such as audio into the looper. > > Oh, almost forgot... a bank has three sounds that are instantly > accessible by just one kick against a pedal. Then you may also scroll > the program list upwards or downwards by the two hand buttons on the > GK PU. > > Stuff I have not checked out yet is the Phrase Looper and the USB > audio file player. You may read up on them in the PDF manual that can > be downloaded from Roland. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se > www.perboysen.com > www.looproom.com internet music hub >