New VG-88 V-Guitar System From Roland
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Roland's VG-88
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February 4, 2000
Roland is proud to introduce the long-awaited successor
to it’s revolutionary VG-8 V-Guitar System: the new VG-88. Like the
legendary VG-8, this futuristic floor-based guitar system uses advanced
COSM technology to "model" the most popular guitar types, guitar
pickups, amplifiers, speaker configurations, mic placements and effects
in music history, as well as produce some very interesting and musical
guitar-meets-synth sounds.
Boasting new guitar and amp models, new onboard effects, an onboard expression
pedal, and refined, incredibly intuitive operation, the VG-88 can turn any electric
guitar equipped with a GK-2A or compatible pickup into a virtual studio of guitars,
amps and effects. And this new V-Guitar System even has a direct 1/4" input,
so guitarists can take advantage of its COSM amps and effects without the use
of a special divided pickup.
The VG-88’s 160 Preset and 100 User Patches offer a variety of classic
guitar and amp sounds, as well as newly-developed guitar models plus new brass
and synth sounds using Harmonic Restructure Modeling (HRM). HRM can produce some
very unique synth-type sounds which cannot be achieved using any other instrument—synth
or guitar—and like the VG-88’s COSM guitar and amp models, these sounds
can be played without the tracking delay often associated with guitar synthesis.
In addition to the new guitar models, the VG-88 also offers extremely natural
new tube amp models and overdriven sounds, giving guitarists even more variation
and color between warm, overdriven amp tones. But the VG-88 doesn’t stop
with modeling other guitars and amps. Its ability to model guitar sounds is paired
with a host of incredible effects and polyphonic pitch shifting that can instantly
call-up a variety of different tunings or string-assignable effects like a new
polyphonic octaver and polyphonic Slow Gear through the stomp of a footpedal.
There’s even a host of new insert effects derived from BOSS’ cutting-edge
GT-Series of guitar effects processors.
All of the VG-88’s powerful technology is made accessible through a refined
interface that’s incredibly user-friendly. Helpful icons and graphics make
selecting guitar and amp models easy, while editing is simplified through the
use of a new EZ Edit mode and Value dial. With its onboard assignable expression
and control pedals, direct 1/4" guitar input, and new Output Select switch
(allowing for connection to conventional guitar amps or power amps), the VG-88
has made it that much easier to take the guitar into the 21st century.
For more information, visit
Roland on the web at www.rolandus.com. |
