I'll Find My Way Home - by 64Guitars & Oldrottenhead

[alfstone]

In the next days I will upload my first experiments with the couple Godin ACS-SA - Roland GR-55. Believe me, great fun and incredible possibilities.

I'll look forward to hearing that, Alfredo.

Have you tried using the GR-55 to control an external synth, such as a keyboard, via MIDI? That was one thing that I heard was a weakness in previous Roland synths. Apparently, tracking was very good with the internal synth but poor when using MIDI to control an external synth. That was one of the strengths of the AXON. Its tracking was excellent with external synths. In fact, there was no difference in tracking between the AXON's internal synth and an external one because they both used MIDI. But Roland did it differently (at least in all the synths before the GR-55). They only use MIDI to control external synths. For the internal synth, they use a more direct approach that doesn't require any MIDI. So tracking is fast internally, but the extra step of converting to MIDI slows down the tracking with an external synth. I don't know if the GR-55 still has that problem.

Of course it will be my next step, in the next days.

BTW, you may give a look here:

http://www.joness.com/gr300/MIDI_SPEED.htm

in few words, according to the test's author comments on the MIDIguitar Yahoogroup, the GR-55 behaviour should be exactly THE SAME both on internal and external (via MIDI out) sounds.

I'll try, I'll try...

Anyway, again about the GR-55 possibilities regard this topic...well, I have almost the sensation that it's even unuseful to connect it to an external synth, since...you have more than 900 tones   available onboard,

http://lib.roland.co.jp/support/en/manuals/res/61493876/GR-55_l_tonelist_je01.pdf

and believe me, they are really very, very good. More, you may use up to 2 tones AND a COSM guitar together, and averything can be easily edited as you prefer!

Ciao!
Alfredo