Roland VG-99

[wilkinsi]

Has anyone tried this unit yet? Nowhere does it say you just plug a standard jack from any electric guitar into this thing in order to use the synth functions. Can anyone confirm? Thanks.

[roodyrocker]

Haven't played it but I did see it at NAMM. The VG-99 is not plug and play with a regular guitar cord, you need a midi pickup on your guitar. I currently have a GK-3A mounted on my Les Paul Studio to use with a Roland GR-33. It will work with the VG-99 as well. The one that plugs directly into the guitar with regular cord is the VG Strat. That is a Strat with midi pickup but it does not use a 13 pin midi cable. Instead it has onboard sounds consisting of alternate tunings, acoustic, 12 string, humbucker, Strat, and Tele sounds in addition to the regular 3 single coile Strat pickups. somewhere on the web there are demos of both systems filmed at NAMM. In the demo the guy explains in the begining that you need a midi pickup to use the VG-99 system.
Hope that clears it up for you.

Rudy

https://www.wickedrocks.com

[hippietim]

In loose terms, the VG-99 is basically a combination of a GT-Pro, VG-8/88, GR-300, and GI-20. Then they started adding features

In more detail, it has two separate amp/effects signal paths like the GT-Pro. To that it adds two separate guitar models each with separate pitch shifting capabilities. They added an additional pitch shifter so you could do detuned 12-string type things concurrent with a detuned 6 string. That's 3 polyphonic (aka, per-string) pitch shifters for each patch. They added some of the old non-MIDI hexaphonic pickup based synth stuff from the GR-300. And just to round it out it does the pitch to voltage conversion (aka, MIDI output) so you can trigger any external MIDI synth.

Not bad for around $1k or so.

[jgcable]

Doesn't it also have the D-Beam??

[Trypp Powell]

Yes it does, which makes it a very tempting item for me. Although I can think of no practical use or need for the d-beam, I like the idea of being able to do a Jimmy Page/Song Remains the Same movie impersonation.

[hippietim]

The manual is available online:

http://www.roland.com/products/en/_support/om.cfm?iCncd=2179&ln=EN&SearchBy=RcId&dst=P&iRcId= 0000019743&dsp=1

[horns666]

In loose terms, the VG-99 is basically a combination of a GT-Pro, VG-8/88, GR-300, and GI-20. Then they started adding features

In more detail, it has two separate amp/effects signal paths like the GT-Pro. To that it adds two separate guitar models each with separate pitch shifting capabilities. They added an additional pitch shifter so you could do detuned 12-string type things concurrent with a detuned 6 string. That's 3 polyphonic (aka, per-string) pitch shifters for each patch. They added some of the old non-MIDI hexaphonic pickup based synth stuff from the GR-300. And just to round it out it does the pitch to voltage conversion (aka, MIDI output) so you can trigger any external MIDI synth.

Not bad for around $1k or so.

Timmy..I didn't understand a one word you said!

[hippietim]

Timmy..I didn't understand a one word you said!

Summary: it does a whole lot of really fucking cool and crazy shit.

[horns666]

In loose terms, the VG-99 is basically a combination of a GT-Pro, VG-8/88, GR-300, and GI-20. Then they started adding features

In more detail, it has two separate amp/effects signal paths like the GT-Pro. To that it adds two separate guitar models each with separate pitch shifting capabilities. They added an additional pitch shifter so you could do detuned 12-string type things concurrent with a detuned 6 string. That's 3 polyphonic (aka, per-string) pitch shifters for each patch. They added some of the old non-MIDI hexaphonic pickup based synth stuff from the GR-300. And just to round it out it does the pitch to voltage conversion (aka, MIDI output) so you can trigger any external MIDI synth.

Not bad for around $1k or so.

Timmy, This post is so awesome..I'm going to cut and paste it in my thread..just so it's there..