Roland Guitar Synth Challenge...live looping NXT LVL guitar

[4rest]

thought i would share my submissions with the ableton community

i used a roland VG-99 using just the GR-300 synth models and ableton to loop
all live and improvised!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEKV4YaUZRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTsnpfyHgXY

enjoy and if you have a roland VG-99 you can get my patches i used
here -----> http://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2751.0

[LoopStationZebra]

Is that Vince Clarke on drums?

[4rest]

HAHA....no it is not...it is brennen the drummer for my band Binary Controllers

[LoopStationZebra]

Good stuff. Always great to see/hear people playing real instruments with Ableton.

You also look incredibly wasted in both vids.

[4rest]

thanks man i did par take in some green before we got rollin' but wasn't incredibly wasted
just look it...but i was a bit high

[LoopStationZebra]

Your beatport link is busted, friend.

[4rest]

thanks for the heads up

[Rave]

I really enjoyed that. U got more vids fella?

[4rest]

thanks RAVE..

i plan on doing some more videos with the focus being on how i am looping and the sounds i get from the VG-99

[Rave]

Sweet. Hope I don't miss it

[razorblade]

Cool...I always like to see others using Guitar synths as controllers for actual electronica, versus trying to play some lame horn part like a guitarist.

[AceLuby]

Very cool stuff you've got there.

[nebulae]

The music and looping was great...love the idea of using natural instruments to create such a synthetic sound...and the best part was the look you gave when you looked at the camera. It was pure "Do you see what I just did? You did, didn't you. I'm a bad mother fucker. It's ok to say so."

[AceLuby]

[4rest]

thanks guys...
razorblade...god i hear ya...i don't get guitar players and i have been one for 30 years
why is it that from what i have seen so very few "get' guitar synths or in this case guitar synth model...
PLEASE no more wanna be kenny g shit....god i can't stand that crap

neb...
first let me say i am HUGE fan of old / new fuzz boxes and to me that was just the
beginning as far as taking a natural instrument and making it sound synthetic...
in fact the fuzz box was original made so get this guitars could emulate violins and strings...
well that went over like a lead balloon....miserable sales..."failed" product then along come kieth
with satisfaction and they could not make them fast enough....

funny i see roland doing the same thing...the VG-99 is the most powerful all in one box you can get for guitar..
sure it lacks in places but it's strengths are not what roland is pimping...they are still
pimping this to the weekend guys in cover bands and the "it can sound like a les paul through a marshall"
or pick yer guitar model and amp model...it does that fine but it is the
synth models and the FX that make this thing so deep

and yeah about the end i still get a little "80's punk rock ...can't help it as it is who i am...
but ya know what...you are right that is what i was "saying"