Russell.Whaley


In terms of technology, is this in the same neighborhood as the Variax system by Line 6?

  I think it is Rolands answer to the Variax system,although line 6 focuses on guitar tones over synth tones.. The new G-5 VG guitar  http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/StratVGBLK?utm_source=none&utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=none&gclid=CN22wJnc3K8CFSWFQAodnnii_A  
 
is their answer to the JTV guitars. No installation of any kind necessary on that guitar and it talks well with the GR-55.
 
  I use a JTV 69 and after the latest 1.8 firmware upgrade the acoustics are killer. Click my link" my music" below to hear a Martin on " By The Sea'..I'm still working this mix so don't listen too closely to the way the parts  clash.
 
 Also at about 3:50 on the following link you can hear all the acoustic models  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpWUkD46qQg 
 
 I don't think Roland has tones this good yet IMO, and this is just the acoustic tones . The other tones are killer too.
 
 The nice thing is now we have choices. If I were guitar player looking to also integrate synths without a synth player I might look over the GR55. I think Line 6 has an edge in the area of guitar tones compared to Roland,but these things can change in the time it takes to write a firmware upgrade.
 
 The one thing that line 6 doesn't offer yet are mods for a typical guitar the way Roland does. I hope they do offer this in the future,but maybe they never will because their system is more heavily integrated into the guitar. A lot more than just a hex pickup. But I can plug into anything independently of any outboard gear including the POD and get the same les Paul and Fender tones.

Mesh, I was unimpressed with the You Rock. YMMV.

wetdentist


i just picked up a GR-30 w/ GK-2A the other day on Craigslist. and while i found that 90% of the internal sounds BLOW, they were not what i was really interested in. i was intent on finding out how well i could play my soft synths, such as Z3TA+ 2 and Massive, etc. totally blown away by how well the GK-2A responds, and haven't been this excited about new possibilities in some time. mainly, i want to be able to use this live, but haven't been able to figure out yet how to get the sounds that are being made by my computer/guitar to be sent back to the GR-30 (and over-ride the internal sounds) so that they can pump out of my keyboard amp. is MIDI OX the answer?

I don't know enough about the GR/GK or MIDI OX to give advice on how to send the signal back to the guitar, but why not just plug the output of the audio interface into the keyboard amp?