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The GR500 was my second electric guitar. It took the place of a Telecaster. Mine had been rewired so that it could be used as a guitar without going through the controller. I swapped it a while back with someone from the list in exchange for a Steinberger Spirit bass guitar and some other stuff. Getting it packed up was an interesting problem given its heft and given the poor quality the case was in. For those of you with a copy of my CD, the first and last track were recorded using the GR500 as just a guitar. As for using it as a synth, I'll repost a message from last year: > One of my early bits of recorded looping is all drifty on the actual >loop part (Roland GR-500 into Digitech RDS3600) but was built on top of a >drum pattern built out of several cycles of different lengths carefully >programmed into a Korg DDM-110 and DDM-220. The bass line was also >somewhat inspired by Terry Riley's In C in that that I wrote down a >series of figures and handed them to the bass player I was working with >and said play these in sequence at whatever rate of progression feels >right to you. I don't think he particularly appreciated trying to work >with the drum pattern, however. > > http://grubmah.com/music/midnight_train.mp3 I liked the way the GR500 would lose pitch tracking at the end of a long note. Mark On Jan 2, 2011, at 6:02 AM, Rick Walker wrote: > Completely coincidentally, I know what this instrument is because I >happen > to have one for sale right at this moment and I discovered what it is >when > I researched it to try and find it's price. > > it is the very first official guitar synth put out by Roland (the Roland >GR500) It has hexaphonic pickups > that are made from recording heads from tape decks. It also has a >proprietary chord > (which is missing) and a zillion buttons. It also ways a >ton......literally, by far the heaviest > guitar I've ever picked up. It also has several sheered off toggle >switches which work > and would be easily replaced. > > http://www.helpwantedproductions.com/guitsyn.htm > > I have it due to one of the > weirder encounters I've ever had. It's a longish story but I'll tell it >for anyone interested: > > > > My wife and I walked down the street a couple of months back but after >the Looping Festival > and were stopped by a random elderly, well dressed lady. > She asked, "Are you a musician?" > > I said, "yes" , a bit mystified as to how she came to that conclusion >(maybe the purple leather jacket). > > and she said, > "I had tenants who left my home many years ago. They just left a bunch >of musical instruments when > they moved out and never came back for them. I've lost touch with them >over the years and > I've decided that I want to go on a long trip and think I've stored them >long enough. They're obviously > not coming back. Can you advise me how to get rid of them?" > > I said, "Well, I'd put an ad on e-bay and sell them." > > She said, "Well, I'm leaving at the start of next week so I don't want >to sell it, Can I just give them to you?" > > I asked, "What do you have" and she said, "a pair of congas and a bass >guitar" > > Amazingly, I had just started to teach a woman congas who didn't own a >set yet and I had a friend > who I used to play with in Noise Clinic, who wanted but did not own a >bass", so I thought > I'd just pass this good fortune on. > > I was also really busy at the time so I said, > "Can I get your phone number and I'll have this woman call you who , >coincidentally, needs a set of congas?" > > She said "Yes, thank you very much for you help." > > I called my student and said, > "If you have time to go up an pick this equipment up for me, I'll give >you the congas for > free." > > She said "Yes" > > and at her next lesson, my student brought the congas, a bass guitar, a >really nice triple guitar stand > and this amazing relic. > > I gave away the congas and the bass guitar and kept the guitar stand and >the > Roland Guitar synth. > > I've been told it's worth a lot to a collector of such stuff which is >rare and probably not > very much otherwise. > > It does have a hex pickup which would be very easy to rewire and it >could have some cool > possibilities. Someone told me that a guitar dealer that i know in town >has got the Roland Synth > unit that completes the package so I probably will head down to > see what he'll cough up for the interesting relic. > > If not, I'll entertain any reasonable offer. > > Odd story, eh? > > Rick Walker >> >> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:02 AM, ^|>^m<will.it.go.round@gmail.com> >wrote: >>> Cool. Must be analogue synthesis with controls built into the guitar >>> body(?) >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Petri Lahtinen<aikuinen@gmail.com> >wrote: >>>> http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=g=8&ag�&tT1&aG37 > >