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Roland VG-99 Workshop Manual

Roland VG-99 Workshop Manual

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VG-99
V-Guitar System
Introduction to the VG-99
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The trademarks listed in this document are trademarks of their respective owners, which are separate companies from Roland. Those companies
are not affiliated with Roland and have not licensed or authorized Roland's VG-99. Their marks are used solely to identify the equipment whose
sound is simulated by Roland's VG-99.
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Summary of Contents for Roland VG-99

  • Page 1 The trademarks listed in this document are trademarks of their respective owners, which are separate companies from Roland. Those companies are not affiliated with Roland and have not licensed or authorized Roland’s VG-99. Their marks are used solely to identify the equipment whose sound is simulated by Roland’s VG-99.
  • Page 2 VG-99 provides a staggering selection of effects to process your This booklet introduces you to the VG-99. We’ll give you an overview of what sound just the way you like it, including COSM models of classic stomp box it is and what it does, and discuss its concept and application.
  • Page 3 COSM Instrument Modeling Unlocking Instrument Modeling with a Divided Pickup The VG-99 creates its virtual instruments by processing each of the guitar’s With the VG-99’s COSM instrument modeling, you can turn your guitar into six strings individually. This is accomplished by using a special pickup on a completely different instrument.
  • Page 4 Alternate Tunings and Polyphonic Effects The Roland GK-3 provides an easy way to add Once the VG-99 has each strings’ signals, it converts them to digital divided pickup capabilities to your favorite guitar. information so they can be processed individually with its digital brain.
  • Page 5 COSM instrument modeling (including its alternate tunings and polyphonic effects) or the Guitar to MIDI function; those require a divided pickup. But you can use all the rest of the VG-99’s processing options, including COSM amps and effects.
  • Page 6 The list of included effects The order of the VG-99’s effects can be changed at will. The COSM guitar path reads like a history of Roland and BOSS signal processing, all under one hood.
  • Page 7 The mixer also lets you route the A and B signal paths to any (or all) of the VG-99’s multiple Revolutionary Realtime Control outputs.
  • Page 8: Control Buttons

    VG-99. There’s even an onboard display that shows VG-99 patch info. And The D Beam is an invisible infrared light beam that emanates when the VG-99’s tuner is activated, the FC-300 display switches to a tuner from the VG-99’s D Beam controller. When you pass your hand screen.
  • Page 9: Audio Outputs

    GUITAR OUTPUT jack. With the VG-99 USB Driver installed on a compatible Windows or Mac computer, you can use the VG-99 as a USB audio and MIDI interface. This allows you to record and playback audio through the VG-99 with digital audio workstation (DAW) software, and transfer MIDI information with MIDI- capable software, such as a MIDI sequencer.
  • Page 10 COSM amps and effects during recording. When it’s time to mix, The VG-99 provides the highway to take your guitar playing headlong into you can play the dry audio back through the VG-99’s COSM amps and effects, the 21st century.