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Hmmmm, The "dry" signal that I get out the back of myVG99 (from my magnetic PUs) seems pretty OK to me. That part of my tone is pretty important to me and I't notice if it were significantly off. I wonder if it's just a problem with your VG99 - it's been know to happen. Mine seems to work fine. I use my guitar to drive a VG99, a GR1 and a whole separate 3rd processed signal path for my Duncan pickups too - which I then mix to taste before it goes into MaxMSP. I've a whole set of my own patches on the GR1 that I've customized since the early '90s, a bunch of patches I use on the VG99 . . . but still, my main sound is in my magnetic PUs. Taking the raw "guitar out" from the back of either the GR or the VG seems pretty identical to one where I just plug it directly into the amp with nothing between m'em but a cable. Something must be wrong somewhere. It shouldn't be a significant problem. Best, Ted On Sep 18, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Phil Clevenger wrote: > 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 >> >