| Dear Mark,
Hey man, you may want to check out the Roland GI-30 (not the 20!!!) or an Axon AX-100 (don't sweat the Yamaha XG sound card, you're right it isn't the greatest). If you can get access to it, go with an Axon AX-100 mk.II, the little of the new German model, I've seen was rather impressive. Here's the slight catch, personally, I found that the Roland GI-30 was much easier to set-up and get it to do what little I wanted it to do, whereas there is just simply so much available within an Axon AX-100, let alone the AX-100 mk.II that well, just say, "wow." I'm assuming that you've got a BC-13 cable running from your existing guitar to your Roland GR-30, and that it is at least a GK-1 if not GK-2, so, yes, you'd be able to use this guitar on any of these models. Also, since you're using a magnetic hex, vs. piezo hex pickup, you'll get the picking zones that are available to all three systems.
Hope this Helps,
Lee On Feb 13, 2006, at 6:41 PM, mark francombe wrote: Hey Thanks guys!! I got alot of interesting advice on this git synth question.. I was very interested in the Axxon system, but can someone tell me.. are all the sounds in it crappy GM sounds? that you cant tweak? The demo videos are hysterically bad, what awful sounds... i can hardly believe that they would use them for this demo videos if they had anything better, so was worried... The GR 30 sounds are crap too right out of the box... but after years of tweakage, I have got a lot of good stuff. So has someone here tried both GR30 and Axxon, (oh while I remember.... (could I still use the Roland pickup thats built into my guitar???) and can give me a comparison? As I already said the superior tracking really doesnt do it for me cos Im no speed freak guitarist, what Im interested in is the built in sequencer and the arpegiator (and the sounds...) is this a bit of a midi looper by any chance... (Im ploughing thru the manual, but its hard to get it without the machine infront of me... why do I want something new??? Well Im just not using the GR30 so much these days, and need a change???It got unplugged a while back and has not yet got back in my system, I DID have it triggering a Korg MS2000 and synched to the loopers, and it was great, but... oh I dunno, it was unweildy, sat there at my feet, I got a bad back and couldnt lean over any more.. I forgot it was there.. It was in the way when I vacuumed... it was... it was... it was fucking neglected OK???? so anyone wanna by a GR 30?? (or should I just pick it up off the floor and put it on a rack shelf...) help...
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