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Roland VG-8 With Road Case and ExtrasThe VG-8 was Roland's first COSM guitar product, and it will always have a special place in my heart. It is now 30+ year old technology, and some may think it maybe should be in a museum somewhere. But it's hard to deny that the thing still sounds great and works just like new every time I get a notion to get it out of the closet and play with it.Unlike a whole lot of other Roland guitar "synth" type units this one has a stereo return. It is a thing that has always bugged me about other VG and GR units. I have owned a variety of them, and the mono analog guitar SEND (for outboard processing your guitar's regular pickups is usually paired with a mono only RETURN on most of them. On the VG-8 you can use your stereo external FX pedals for your guitar's magnetic pickup signal and return it (in stereo) to be mixed with the stereo COSM signals of the VG-8. Don't get me wrong, the VG-8s sound patches offer a lot of great variety, but I always liked to blend in just a little bit of "real" guitar of some sort for a "composite" stereo sound. But that is just me.The Roland VG-8 is not really a "synth" (a mistake many people make) but a dedicated hexaphonic guitar signal processor, where every string can be processed to sound like whatever other guitar-variation string instrument you could possibly want (and each string with separate FX and panning). The power of the thing was mind boggling for the time, and many people still don't utilize it to it's full potential. In fact, other than increasing the number of patches on subsequent models, they sort of dumbed down the capabilities of units that came after it so they weren't quite so mind-blowing.Imagine being able to treat each string as an instrument that can have its own custom pickup, sound character, attack, solid or hollow wood body resonance, it own amp model, and it's own separate mic placement, sound FX, EQ, stereo panning. Imagine also being able to place a virtually modeled pickup (single coil or humbucker) anywhere between the bridge and the nut. That's right, ANYWHERE, and at any ANGLE you want. What would that sound like? Later models took away this capability. But you get the idea. From the first, the VG-8 was imaginative and ground-braking guitar processing playground . . . perhaps a little too much so for the general masses. Since it looked a bit like a Rolnd GR-1 (synth) people generally thought of it as a synth. It does have some synth-y sounding patches too, but those are not its strong suit. In fact they are few and kind of wimpy. It's real strength is making weird crazy guitar noises and/or making you guitar sound like any other guitar traditional you can imagine. Step on a button and your Gk-equipped electric and sound like Leo Kottke's 12-string, a dobro, a banjo, a classical nylon string, or a fretless bass. Press another and you can wail screaming metal tones til your ears bleed, or pedal steel tones in any tuning. Press another and get something you yourself have programmed and invented from your own imagination. The VG-8 was like Axe-FX before Axe-FX existed.This package is full of extras (see photos): First there is the VG-8 itself (and no it is not the "Expanded" version). But included are extra sound patch cartridges for 3x the fun. You get the "Traditional" cartridge (country, blues, rock, jazz). And then there is the "Modern" cartridge which id full of more processed metal, heavy, spacey, and fusion-y rock guitar sounds. A lot of these were simply folded in to the standard patches of subsequent products. But here you have them all for the VG-8. There is a printed manual, a DVD video manual. Of course you get the AC power cable and a GK guitar cable. But I'm also including a variety of shop documents, and patch charts that list all of the internal sound patches, and the ones on the cartridges. But wait, there is more, there is a solid road case with fairly new(ish) form-fitting foam padding inside. This case will hold everything and keep it safe and dust free when in storage. Or, if you want to take the VG out for a gig, it will keep it safe for travel too.Don't get me wrong, the VG-8 is built like a tank, quite literally made from sheet steel. But things do happen. Other than the tiny chips and nice here and there on this unit it is very, vey clean and proper EXCEPT there is a small dent (my guitar stool fell over) on the right hand side of the tome just above the furthest right bank pedal. That is the worst is has suffered at my hands. It is hard to notice unless you are looking for it and I have provided one photo close-up so you can see it.I am asking what I think it might be worth as a package deal to the right buyer. If you have a different idea, feel free to make any reasonable offer.From The Manufacturer:The Roland VG-8 was a breakthrough guitar processor that used advanced (for the time) modeling technology to emulate the most popular guitars and amplifiers in music history. Using Roland’s Composite Object Sound Modeling (COSM) technology, the VG-8 combines multiple "sound objects"—like various guitar bodies, vintage amplifiers, and pickup models—to create a perfect reproduction of these components that can be played from any steel-stringed guitar with a Roland GK pickup. The VG-8 also has a built-in polyphonic pitch shifter for creating 12-string guitars and open tunings as well as a complete digital effects processor and parametric EQ.128 Preset Patches, 64 User Patches.VGM (Variable Guitar Modeling) provides multiple sound object models including guitars, pickups, amps, cabinets, microphones and even mic placement.HRM (Harmonic Restructure Modeling) for creating new synth-type sounds No tracking delay – through the GK-2A pickup, the VG-8 converts the actual waveform produced by each string into a totally new sound in realtime.Polyphonic intelligent pitch shifter for 12-string guitars, open tunings, bass guitar emulation, etc.High-speed digital effects processing including reverb, chorus, hexa-pan, delay and parametric EQ – all simultaneously.
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