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It doesn't have a 1/4” input jack to plug a regular guitar in.
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First, and most important, you can't use this product with a guitar that has not been configured for a guitar synth. Even more importantly, Roland has taken great pains to make the unit as simple and accessible to guitar players as possible.
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Throw in MIDI outputs to drive computer software and external synthesizers, a simple looper, USB-audio & MIDI interface and audio file playback and you have an awful lot of firepower in a compact floor pedal unit. In addition to its own internal synthesizer voices, the GR-55 also offers the COSM guitar modeling technology featured in its groundbreaking VG-99 product along with COSM amplifiers and multi-effects. Roland unequivocally states that this is the fastest and most responsive guitar synthesizer they have ever made. And the company’s brand new flagship guitar synthesizer, the GR-55, may change a lot of minds dead set against the notion. Roland, who has built guitar synths since the ‘70s, has never given up the fight though. Those performance issues combined with the steep learning curve of synthesizers resulted in most guitarists saying “no thank you” to guitar synthesis. Try taking any older guitar synth and strumming a percussive rhythm part along the lines of “Pinball Wizard” using a synth piano or guitar voice, and you are certain to experience a bewildering splatter of false and mis-triggered notes and ugly latency. Guitar synthesizers, while a great idea in principle, never gained wide popularity-in no small part because did not always work very well. GR-55 directly plugged into an Echo Indigo audio card on a Fujitsu laptop Download Example 1 Electric piano synthesizer voice combined with regular pickups and a COSM L4 guitar model playing single notes at a moderately fast tempo.ĭownload Example 2 Twelve string synthesizer voice only finger picked and strummed.ĭownload Example 3 Twelve string synthesizer voice in combination with a 12 string COSM acoustic guitar and the regular guitar pickups.