RE: Roland VG8 Guitar system?

["Douglas Bonneville" <doug@boncommunications.com>]

You can make sounds on the v you can't imagine. It process the sound
vibrations from the string and models them into new creations, unlike
playing a synth which is simply triggered. The sounds you make for instance
with a muted palm are different from open finger picking or strumming, with
the same patch. You can create all kinds of strange cutoff filters on some
of the "instruments" as they are called.

Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legion [mailto:Legion@voicenet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:02 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Roland VG8 Guitar system?
>
>
> Thanks to everyone for all the great information and links on the
> VG8. It has all
> been very helpful.
>
> I have one outstanding question that is confusing me though. People are
> describing this as a Modeling system and not a guitar synth. Does the VG8
> "overwrite" the sound of your existing guitar or does is sort of
> process it? In
> other words I understand you can make it have alternate tunings
> but are these
> tunings of your actual guitar or of what the VG8 is modeling?
>
> I honestly don't have much need for more "guitar" sounds but the
> idea of making
> my guitar play "weird" sounds and "track" properly is very
> intriguing. Can you
> program the VG8 to play strange sounds that are unguitarlike? I
> listened to some
> of the WAV files on vg8.com and it certainly seems like it but
> I'm not sure
> what's the VG and what's the effects and or original guitar sound.
>
> Thanks again for all the great help!
>
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