RE: slow gear

["William Walker" <billwalker@baymoon.com>]

Well, the new VG99 has the ability to serve in the same way as a GI-20, but
it also has some retro stuff like gr300 simulations, and all that other
pitch transposition effects, and modeling, stuff,  and I think that a GI-20
married to a module like XV stuff would sound infinitely better than what
I'm able to coax from my old GR30 :) but I've been reluctant to go that
route, as I like being un-tethered to the GR interface cable right now.  
I'm
going to jettison an RMC system because I no longer use guitar synth with
nylon string guitar like I once thought I would, I haven't for a few years
now. The problem with synthesizers for me is the ones I like are out of my
price range, and eventually they become dated sounding anyway. I think guys
like Fripp and Metheny have found sounds they like to use and have become
signature to them and they are creatures of habit, and perhaps they also
have reached that point long ago that to always want the latest and 
greatest
in technology, can be a trap that gets in the way of the creative process.
Fripp seems to me like the kind of guy who would resist the temptation to
always have the coolest new this or that. Of course this is all conjecture
on my part, never met the man. The next time I see him he may be sporting a
new VG-99!!!!!!!
Bill

Hey Bill,
I am with you,i havent been playing with my synth at all lately and been
doing the same as you,exploring synth like sounds from my DL4,i find the
string sounds from delays a lot more interesting than the synth ones,but 
the
combination of both can be also very nice.I am still curious to hear if
Roland plans to keep up with their guitar synths or drop them for their VG
units..
by the way how you ever compared the combination of a GI-20 and module like
the roland xv series to that of the floor synth units as far a sound? I see
Fripp still using the old GR-1!
Luis