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The VG-99’s flexible USB routing allows you to record the VG-99’s total sound,
or record a dry, unprocessed signal to DAW software while monitoring the
sound with COSM amps and effects during recording. When it’s time to mix,
you can play the dry audio back through the VG-99’s COSM amps and effects,
and then re-record the result on another track. This is a process known as
“reamping,” and it gives you the ability to adjust guitar sounds to match your
needs at mixdown, rather than having to commit to them ahead of time.
Wo w.
No doubt about it, the VG-99 is a guitar processing
powerhouse. With its amazing COSM sound-
shaping ability, powerful multi-effects processing,
realtime control options, and USB connectivity, this
is a digital guitar tone machine like no other.
They say that less is more, and that’s often true. But the processing power
in the VG-99 is so massive that we can’t resist offering a hypothetical
combination of things that can be done in a single patch:
Two different COSM instruments, each with altered tuning, 12-string,
•
detune, and harmony (blended with the normal guitar sound if desired)
Three different overdrive/distortion effects
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Two different COSM amp/speaker rigs•
Nine (!) different four-band parametric EQs•
Three different reverbs•
Three different delays (or five if you don’t mind giving up two EQs)•
Two different compressor effects•
Two different wah effects•
Two different chorus effects•
Guitar to MIDI conversion•
USB audio/midi interfacing with a computer•
Whew. If you can settle for only seven four-band EQs and three delays in this
hypothetical patch—we suspect that’s probably enough—you can add in a
bunch more effects options, too.
Of course, you don’t have to use all this power at once, but it’s good to know
it’s there when you need to kick in the afterburners. Ready to take a ride?
The VG-99 provides the highway to take your guitar playing headlong into
the 21st century.
The End
We hope you’ve found this workshop helpful. Keep an eye out for other
VG-99 Workshop booklets available for downloading at www.RolandUS.
com.