![]() ![]() Roland's GR55 Guitar Synthesizer, announced at the January 2011 Winter NAMM show in California, is the first product to put both their PCM Synthesis and COSM Modelling technologies in a single floor unit. Roland use this same hex pickup to drive their COSM (Composite Object Sound Modelling) guitar- and amp-modelling VG-series processors, so it seemed inevitable that these two different guitar technologies would eventually be combined. ![]() You had to use Roland guitars with the GR500 and some of the later models, but the current system allows you to fix a Roland GK hex pickup to your own guitar. Today, their guitar synths are all digital, but what they have in common with their ancestor is that they require a pickup system that provides a separate signal for each string on the guitar. Roland have been at the forefront of guitar synthesis since 1977, when they launched the all-analogue GR500. Could this be the best guitar synth ever? Roland have put elements of their two very different approaches to guitar synthesis in a single box. ![]()
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