You had me at Careless Whisper!

I love how EVERY demonstration has to use the oboe and flute for the Simpsons interludes

Great demo. I want one!

great demo!

Awesome Technology from Roland****Excellent

Clear and very interesting. Thanks

was gonna consider the boss gp 10 but you've sold me on this one already.

excellent. thank you!!!

Good demo buddy

best demo. keep it up.

So good

I need this.

are these some of your sounds and titles? - i haven't seen or heard them on mine. - just wondering if they are hidden ones

Thank you so much for the demo. Could you please tell me is there a specialised effects pedal that gives you the Stereo Scat effect here heard at 9:30 on your demo. Rather than the entire Synthesizer board. That would be brilliant as I play jazz as well and need that cool bebop scat vocalisation effect on my guitar playing. Thank you.

Great! curious about the nice Stereo Scat patch at 9:30, is panned pcm1/pcm2 two scat tones? or ping pong delay fx?

Excellent demonstration. My question is if you think the synthesizer sounds better with a guitar with metal strings, or nylon. As I am undecided if to buy a godin acs sa in nylon, or an electric godin xtsa. Thank you for your answer

Two months ago a got this unit, so far has been wonderful, but still i need more information, or videos to show me the handiling of the features, and take more advantages with my unit, please submit, or suggets a page over the internet to investigate more about the handilling of this equipment, please, sincerelly Fausto Ramos.

Good show ole boy...

How can I set up my GR 55 like yours??

I have the GR-55 but where can I get your patches that you demoed?

would love to know how you built the EDGY patch and others

I have a GR synth from 2005. I believe it worked fine in its heyday, plugged it in the other day and it's not working properly, or at least the way I remember. There is a delay between plucking a note and actually hearing it, which makes the unit useless if you're playing to a backing or in a band. Has anyone noticed this phenomenon?

I would love some clarification. It seems you mention using the magnetic pickups, and having the modeling features available. Does this mean the GR-55 does have functionality as a bit of a modeling/processor without the use of a midi pickup/signal ? I understand the synth functions wouldn't be functional with the midi. In other words....on a normal 1/4" electric guitar...can you still run thru this and get some 'effects' ? Thanks.

I would never use all the poly tones and wild synthesized sounds. But I do need it for individual tones like sax, fiddle, piano, banjo, etc. The problem is I can't find a good responsive "growling type sax" tone. The GR1 has it but does the gr55? I need a fiddle tone too. All I found in the grr55 was a mellow violin. that won't work for me. does this unit have these tones? Or can you create them in the unit? If so, how?

I have the GR09 with a GK2 pickup, could i use the gk2 pickup with this pedal?

Can you use the non-synth effects without the gk-pickup? So that you can use it as a normal multi-effect for your other instruments that don't have the pick-up?

6:24 That is Anouk! that guitar riff that you are playing

I'm thinking about purchasing the Roland GC-1 Guitar along with the GR-55. I have a great little 1 watt Yamaha HTR10x practice amp, but apparently you need to use neutral / monitor speakers with the GR-55 in order to achieve consistency with sound. I've heard some users having issues with patch creation...they create a patch with headphones on or through one speaker, and then go to their buddies house and all of the patches sound completely off. Can anyone recommend a solution for this? I don't need anything loud...My Yamaha guitar amp has really great sound when I play my ipod through it...yet I'm not sure it's sound is neutral enough to not effect the intended tone of the patch I'd be trying to create. Some say the iLoud blutooth speaker could work with the GR-55...has anyone tried? I'm completely confused on which route to take. I'd like consistency when practicing and when recording. Thanks for any input.

i wish they will release a smaller version of this without the exp pedal so i can fit it in my pedal board like the gr20 without the exp pedal with only two pedals

unbelievable o.o

He plays music appropriate to each patch via a top 40 knowledge-base lol!

WOW!

This thing is UNBELIEVABLE!! I really really want 1 but I’m scared I won’t be able to set it up properly. It seems 50/50 as to wether it will work properly or not???

Can you put the GR 55 directly to the P. A., withoutt using a Guitar Amplifier?

Truly excellent demo.I like the way you play the virtual instruments in the right way,i.e. not as a guitar player. Congrats from a fellow Brummie(well Black Country really,but we won't quibble about that!)

can you please make a video on How to update GR55 Firmware with USB Cable

Man... That's great. But how do you mute the original guitar sound? How do you do to choose between normal pickup and GK-3? GR-55 is a great device but at stage I need to use my normal amp sound too. How do I deal with it?

@caseyohearn7514

8 жыл бұрын

@ Del Rei -There is a switch on the GK3 pickup that lets you choose between GR55, both GR55 and guitar, and just guitar. There is a "Through" or guitar jack on the GR55, that needs to be sent to an amp or PA, the L and R (or synth sounds) need to be connected as well. I hope this helps!

If I had one of those I would set it to Stereo Scat and just leave it LOL. Great machine.

Way better than the Boss Sys- 300. How does it tracks on external synths? i purchase The Gr 33 and The Roland Ready Guitar back in 03 - Can one purchase a Gk -3 pick-up to replace the built in Gk-2 pick-up on a Roland Ready Guitar? Why do your demo sounds better than others with the same unit?

haha, The Simpsons!

Vc poderia entrar no nosso grupo da GR-55 para passar umas dicas o que acha

First off...... I haven't played mine nearly enough, but I own this...I guess. What is the difference in the Black/Blue models? Where is the Scat Voices? Did you make that yourself? Can I download a patch that has those? Where? That is so cool! Can I use this with an acoustic amp? Or...Bad Idea? At church I have a Fender Mustang IV and a Marshall Acoustic Amp. Could I use both...or are the freq bad for acoustic amps? When I change (Channels?) on mine, the volumes are DRASTICALLY different from one to the next. I hate having a nice, pretty, lush sound....click to change and blow my ears off. How is that fixed?

By how much the sound of the Roland GK Ready Stratocaster GC1 electric guitar will differ from the Gk 3 installed on a regular Stratocaster. Is there a problem with audio delay and uncontrolled planing on some patches?

@drtone

Жыл бұрын

GK3 can sound better, since it is hexatonic magnetic pick up, the guitar effects sound. GC-1 does not sound or feel as good as GK1 pu on my own guitars in my experience.

Dear Guitarist. I had a question. Can the sounds also be triggered by a Midi Keyboard like Roland AX? Without having a special GK3 pickup? Or is it absolutely necessary to use a guitar? I would be enjoyed to get an answer.

@jeffblack5024

3 жыл бұрын

Horst Kurz You can’t play it with a keyboard, unfortunately.

I use loop pedals hooked up to my guitar in live situations, what interests me about this on top of the custom tuning, is the possibility of programming a drum kit to each string and creating a synth drum line, does anyone know if that is at all possible with this unit? currently i am just looping a kinda rhythmic line that definitly sounds like a guitar but as far as I can see there are no rhythmic samples on the unit. Secondly the tuning function does look amazing, ive been downtuning my guitar alot recently so that some of my songs are in an easier key from when i wrote them, but my tele is starting to sound a bit lame in the lower key, two whole tones beneath standard tuning, and a little like a sitar sometimes! Ideally i would like to tune the guitar to standard tuning and use this to downtune the guitar tones to that lower pitch without issues with the guitar strings ringing horribly, has anyone experimented doing this? Cheers guys, would appreciate any help :)

@RSSpeacemaker

4 жыл бұрын

I do believe there is actually a rhythmic patch that comes with the GR-55 synthesizer. I understand that this comment is two years old so you may have found it by now. I used the patch to create a sort of Mike Oldfield Shabda rhythmic sound. Maybe it doesn't feel quite like the drums your looking for, but I know it has one.

Why is there a loud hizzing und humming with some of it's sounds? I didn't even find a builtin noise gate to control the the noise!! Is there a noise gate in there or is an external noise gating unit necessary? That would be a negative character for that unit!!!

Can the GR55 play midi files?

Can it be connected to the MPK mini, a laptop production keyboard? If so, how could the midi keyboard be played in connection to the guitar synth? Thank you very much in advance for your reply!

@Nicksperiments

3 жыл бұрын

It can not

9:29 killed me. hahahhaa

Papá Noel me trajo mi gr 55

i felt like my ears were deceiving me. :D

There is a wireless option now. I developed a GK Wireless System.

@StratBoss

4 ай бұрын

Amazing, how do you get hold of it? Any thoughts on the latency and usability of the GR55? I'm thinking of getting one for live use as it covers guitar and synth. Shame they stopped doing the Roland strat with the integrated hex pickup

What intro song ?

I'm actually selling my Ibanez RG Prestige 1550M To afford this thing. And I love that Ibanez. Thankfully I have another Ibanez wich is MUCH bettert. This is a MUST have for any musician!!

Brother Jain can you give me your paramiter please ??

What song is that at 8:10 ?

@MartinCraneRockbeast

3 жыл бұрын

Peer Gynt by Grieg.

can this do steel pedal or harmonica???

@jfjusa1

7 жыл бұрын

yes, it does harmonica...

2:23 little wing

Can it be used directly on a guitar amplifier?

@GakCoUk

10 жыл бұрын

It can indeed!

Da umas dicas se possível

Is there a way to just install GK pickup on my current guitar and then buy synth

@drtone

Жыл бұрын

yes

Another great demo along with kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqGny9Ftgauwpaw.html. If I get one I wonder how it would be possible to get James's patches?

l'd like to have direction to get the kit, could you do a please to send me a dress please, l'm from Brazil, thanks.

If you have noticed, he did NOT use any one of the internal default stock patches, (which a lot of them are not very usefull). All of them are USER patches that he used. So to the other person who commented about cant finding the sounds that he used in this video.. you WON'T!! WHY??? Mainly because they do NOT provide a link to those patches he used.

The best guitar synth pedals l have heard are the EHX Hog pedals.

song at 6:24?

fuck!!!!! cool!

I am gonna use this for symphonics as well. Keyboard is annoying for people that like to stick to the strings.

So this pedal allows me to custom the guitar tuning?

@PatrickHayashida

9 жыл бұрын

Floydandsome YEAH! And its better.. You can tune each string at a diferent tuning.

@Floydandsome

9 жыл бұрын

***** Dayum this is crazy,are you saying that it can custom each string's tuning without actually tuning it on the guitar?

@PatrickHayashida

9 жыл бұрын

Floydandsome exactly!

@Floydandsome

9 жыл бұрын

***** Great, I must get this

@insertanynameyouwant5311

9 жыл бұрын

Floydandsome But you also need to buy midi pick up and install it on every guitar you want to play with this device, and probably also external midi converter to send signal from pick up to GR-55, which to me isn`t convenient. Besides midi is not for getting hi gain low tuned sound. If it`s the only your purpose, you`d better get EHX pitch fork or Whammy Drop in addition to nice analog distortion. If you want to drop the lowest string individually then there are several things that are easily installed on bridge of your guitar and make it physically but very fast. good luck

I was hoping you'd do Jump...

@StratBoss

2 жыл бұрын

He does on this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqGny9Ftgauwpaw.html

"the phrase "guitar synth" is a bit misleading so we like to call it an audio workstation". You've literally put "guitar synthesiser" on the top of the unit.

The best pedal to play Led Zeppelin's In the Light introduction. :-)

Can it be played to a standard strat too?

@solidranger

9 жыл бұрын

Yes! Gotta have the GK3 pup though.

@cDekKk

9 жыл бұрын

***** Ohh haha okay I will be ordering 'em maybe next week :)

What's the song at 6:45?

@jakeboynz

8 жыл бұрын

+crgaff11 Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi

Does the GR55 require a special type of amp?

@GakCoUk

10 жыл бұрын

It can work with both a normal guitar amplifier, and a PA system. The PA system would allow you to use the full extent of the amp modelling.

@joshrothstein3830

10 жыл бұрын

GAK Thanks for the quick response. What type of PA system would you recommend if that's the direction I take? Great demo by the way...

@GakCoUk

10 жыл бұрын

That all depends on how loud you need to be. I would recommend having a look at one of these: www.gak.co.uk/en/mackie-srm-450-v2/19730

@call4sorrow1

10 жыл бұрын

GAK hi i was wondering, when you say using a p.a allows you to use the full extent of the amp modelling, what specifically are you referring to, is there a lot i will miss out on if i just use my blackstar amp, or is it just a few extras that are optional?? and is the amp modelling completely off limits if a guitar amp is used. thanks.

@GakCoUk

10 жыл бұрын

You will only miss out on some of the cabinet modelling effects.

My kidneys already in the bottle

Juicewrld at 6:22

Wow! I wish i had one of these! Oh, hang on, i DO have one. Right then. I wish i could play guitar. Lol! Can i really do this?? Nice playing here... \m/ (:o)

Do you have to have the guitar to be able to use the pedal?

@Stormrider-ij9tn

8 жыл бұрын

no any eletric guitar u just have the pickup

@capsuleboy

6 жыл бұрын

so can you do those sounds buying that pedal? or adding samples and all that? What kind of pickup ?? normal guitars dont work with this?

@adakhochalai

5 жыл бұрын

@@capsuleboy gk pickups

a decent strat with an add-on GK-3 pu sounds better than these roland ready strats, its a great idea, of course, but they suck the tone out of the rig

Sorry folks. In order to do this right you need a synth ready guitar, Roland GR-55 and a powered P.A.-The subs and high end need to be seperated in order to get the instrument sampled.-It os not cheap and requires alot of work/pratice. The other option-get a kick ass synth player.

Get me a sound similar to a lap steel or pedal steel, please, no one has been able to until now, please let a friend from Chile do it for you.

Regane piro min

Price?

@tannhausergates4335

8 жыл бұрын

+Sourav Shome 745€ :)

@Stormrider-ij9tn

8 жыл бұрын

699 buy its self 800 with special pickup

SHUTUP AND TAKE MY MONEY

This things costs as much as a keyboard. 🤔

@umitanonymous3400

3 жыл бұрын

You're right, just like a beginners upmost model organ, keyboard price. Even it's second hand. 300 dollars.

Did he just play lucid dreams 5 years before it came out?

@Nicksperiments

3 жыл бұрын

It was probably sampled for the rap song. Not sure what the original is but I heard it a long time ago

What song is that at 2:38?

Hello there, I do have a Roland GR 55 you have beautiful user tones, would you mind please emailing me those tones if I provide you with my email address. I appreciate your help. Thanks

Down tuning sounds kind of thin. Maybe that's the amp modeling's fault as BOSS doesn't have the best amp modeling, but I very much enjoy my Variax. Also don't call guitar modeling guitar synthesis, they're 2 different things.

@drtone

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the gloss over the difference...which is huge

All these pedals were created for rock the majority only have overdrive to make noise not music the Roland i think the GR 55 with some different effects, but all in common as the the Boss nothing good if you are a blue rock thrush buy but for me not worth anything else hire good guitarists to fool.

This guy looks like Jim Morrison

You can't play the oboe? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?

i heard that gr hickup just before the pipe organ. it does not track the greatest

can you just PLAY the 900 sounds And stop talking?

@wildejr100

5 жыл бұрын

NO!

@djpetenice

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed.. Ive been through about 15 videos about guitar synths pedals and all we get are "blahblahblahblahblahblahblah"

@Gregorypeckory

11 ай бұрын

This is a video for people who don't know the information you're complaining about receiving. All you needed to do is move on to find something that suits you perfectly. Your comment reminds me of the hilariously spoiled idiots on so many guitar lesson videos whining about the fact that the free lesson they should be saying "thank you" for providing to the person who was nice enough to post for everyone, is either too basic or too advanced for their particular level. You're all like little crying babies, except that you don't realize that your tears are of no interest to anyone, because you aren't a baby and the internet is not your momma's boobies, and that the world is full of people who have different needs than you; not everything you encounter is going to tickle your fancy; cry some more and see how much the videos change in response. 🙄🤪

good piece of equipment but not worth 800 dollars not to me

nowt wrong with a brummy accent dude.

@zakklee2556

2 жыл бұрын

Birmingham. The birth place of Metal .

only bla bla bla

Only talks, no sound.

Don't talk to much