VG-88 V-Guitar system The Roland VG-88 presents guitarists with the next generation of revolutionary V-Guitar technology. This futuristic guitar system uses advanced COSM technology to "model" the most popular guitars and amplifiers in history, as well as produce some very unique "guitar-meets-synth" sounds of its own. New sounds and features include more natural tube and overdriven amp sounds, new polyphonic and guitar-oriented effects, pickup and amplifier variations, new brass sounds, an onboard expression pedal and a 1/4" direct guitar input.

Features

• Self-contained guitar processing/modeling system which recreates a wide variety of guitar, pickup, amp, speaker cabinet and microphone sounds using a standard electric guitar equipped with GK-2A or compatible pickup (sold separately)
• GK-Ready 13-pin input plus 1/4” guitar input for direct access to amp/speaker modeling sections Hollow-body and acoustic guitar models including new nylon string guitar
• Extremely natural tube amp models and overdriven sounds
• HRM (Harmonic Restructure Modeling) creates synth-type sounds—including new brass sounds—with natural playing nuances and without delay
• Combination guitar output/GK pickup output for completely new types of sounds
• Polyphonic Intelligent Pitch Shifter for instant open tunings, 12-string guitars, bass guitar, string-assignable octave, slow gear, and more
• Effects include reverb, chorus, hexa-pan, delay, flanger and parametric EQ
• Extremely intuitive operation w/ helpful operational graphics and icons
• Onboard expression pedal for realtime parameter control
• Output Select switch for connection to conventional guitar amps or power amps
• Offers 200 P reset and 100 User Patches, including newly-developed factory Patches