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The cable that turns a GR-55 into a normal-guitar multi-effects pedal.
90% of Roland GR-55's PCM Tones are wasted, due to poor tracking and false triggering. A simple solution is the use of a GK mini breakout cable, or a dedicated GKP-1/2 breakout box. Taking 100% control over separate strings is a must.
YOUTUBE MINI BREAKOUT CABLE DEMO MOVIE
A 13-Pin mini breakout cable is an affordable GK Hex equivalent breakout box and cable set in a single package.
The movie demo features six Auto-Tune guitar plugins, Hex Poly-Distortion, and -12 Octave Pitch-Shifting plugin effects.
A DAW software sequencer has endless possibilities.
V-GUITAR SEPARATE STRINGS MAKEOVER GUIDE
An eight page pdf guide to separate strings processing, editing, re-guitar and re-amping. Transforming an ‘average’ v-guitar recording explained.
NEW 13-PIN PLUG & SOCKET PROTECTION
It is important to cover or protect 13-Pin plugs and sockets when not in use. Failing to do so risks a build up of dust, dirt, oxidation and tarnish. User neglect is nearly always the main cause of cable failure, although v-synth 13-pin socket failure is a more serious matter.
Make your own 13-Pin plug and socket dust covers using heat shrink.
V-Guitar Forum Plug & Socket covers review.
The latest breakout box features tough 13-pin chassis sockets, a robust diecast case, and pin-7 normal guitar I/O. Previous active and passive breakout box units were mainly intended for studio use, and the new GKP-2 easily fits into any environment - stage or studio.
An extremely robust v-guitar breakout cable. Plug in a standard GK13-pin cable into the 13-pin line-socket, and you have pain-free access to recording and playing separate strings. Priced at £80.00GBP, it is the most cost-effective separate strings access solution available.
USING A ROLAND GR-55 AS A SOUND MODULE
A short preview movie with re-amping, re-guitar and
re-synth. http://youtu.be/cldUfg6vkKM
Minimum requirements: Break-out / Break-in cable or
SOUND ON SOUND MAGAZINE ARTICLE.
Passive Breakout Box review by legendary studio equipment journalist Paul White.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may13/articles/tonesearch-gk-breakout.htm
YOUTUBE DEMO. SEPARATE GUITAR STRINGS
AND BINAURAL 3D. The ultimate separate strings demo. Extreme re-amping, re-guitar, effects, and individual string software editing. Not to mention a famous rock guitar tune.
Welcome to Separate Strings - a hardware resource page for anyone wishing to explore the universal possibilities in recording and playing separate guitar strings.
The benefits of recording separate strings, including ‘normal’ mono guitar re-amping, have long been known to music producers and elite guitar players. 1995 saw the arrival of Roland’s first widely available hexaphonic pickup and v-guitar synth - GK2A and VG8. This ‘new technology’ opened an exciting world of exploration in guitar tones, as before you would have needed access to dozens of guitars, amps and effects.
‘V-Guitar Synth - ‘play a bit…adjust a bit’. Finding an exact tone using a v-synth is usually a very tedious process. After 30-40 dial twiddles and button presses, you can easily find yourself settling on a tone that sounds approximately right. The problem with ‘play a bit, adjust a bit’, is your hands are not free to concentrate and explore the wealth of patch permutations. Effectively, you are left with a guitar tone that sounds poor in comparison to a world-class professional guitar player.
Break-Out Box interface. A breakout box allows a hex-pickup and v-synth user to record separate strings performances to a multi-track or DAW (digital Audio Workstation). With each string recorded onto a separate audio track, this allows further separate string enhancements with software editing, such as: split, copy, paste, move, delete, normalise, volume and re-tune. Note. Software separate string enhancements can be discrete as well as extreme. You can choose light and subtle separate string improvements, by correcting a slightly ‘flat’ or ‘sharp’ note, or go extreme and edit every separate string event. Moderate and sensible string improvements usually work best, correcting flat notes, quiet notes in a chord and timing errors etc.
Break-In Box & hands-free v-synth patch changing. Armed with your studio quality separate string recordings routed to your v-synth via the ‘break-in box’, you can begin hands-free v-synth patch changing. Without the tedious ‘play a bit…adjust a bit’ nag, it is possible to review hundreds of patch permutations in a short time. As where before with ‘play a bit…adjust a bit’, you might only reach 50 or so adjustments, and then settle on a poorly researched tone.
As a guitar player and breakout box designer, I am confident once you have experienced recording and playing separate strings, you will think twice about recording a guitar in mono or stereo again!
Bill Baxendale - May 2013
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