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Re: OT: VG-99 & GR-300 (was: Moog Guitar)
At 4:12 PM -0700 10/28/08, George Ludwig wrote:
> >Best things about it were the zero latency
>
>The GR300 still beats the modeling on latency. Wayne Joness (a
>brilliant guitar synth geek) did some latency testing. You can see
>his results here:
><http://www.joness.com/gr300/MIDI_SPEED.htm>http://www.joness.com/gr300/MIDI_SPEED.htm
>
>Basically, the GR300 is still almost twice as fast as the modeller
>in the VG-88. I can't imagine the VG-8 did any better. And if you
>used the polyphonic pitch, the VG-88 gets even slower.
Wayne Jones is great as a GR-300 resource. Since it seems somewhat
topical (and since nobody's posted it yet), here's a very recent
article he wrote for the November issue of Premier Guitar magazine.
He gives a critical head-to-head between a real GR-300 and the GR-300
emulation in the VG-99:
http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2008/Nov/Return_of_a_Legend_Does_the_VG_99_Live_Up_to_the_GR_300.aspx
In short, he concludes that, for the most part, the VG-99 is a worthy
replication of the GR-300. It also addresses the latency issue with
the VG in relation to the GR-300 emulation.
FWIW, the only time I notice *any* latency is when I'm using the GR
algorithm (that one's a bit of a CPU hog), and even then it's not
insurmountable. Every other aspect of the instrument performs faster
than snot, or at least as fast as I can play. So I'd use his latency
figures given for the VG-99 in this article as a theoretical maximum.
--m.
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