Roland GR-700 Analog Guitar Synthesizer with MIDI input Mark Tsurata Modification

FOR SALE:

Roland GR-700 gitaar synth - special edition (pre-owned by Tim Skold)
Roland GR-700 Analog Guitar Synthesizer with MIDI INPUT Mark Tsurata Modification No box, no manual, no M-16C cartridges, no 24 pin cable.
for more info on the MODS, see below.
Has original User sticker on front of unit (to see how to use controllers).

please read whole add.
The photo's are part of the description.

For fans of those 80’s synth sounds, vintage guitar synths and that typical epic Roland sound.  
I bought this from its previous owner: KMFDM / MDFMK / Marilyn Manson guitarist Tim Skold.

Roland GR-700 Programmable Analog Guitar Synthesizer

Features and Specifications:
   •    6 voice, Dual Oscillator Synth Engine Based on the Roland JX-3P/MKS-30
   •    3 - Selectable Octave Settings for Each Oscillator, 2’, 4’ and 8’
   •    Choice of Square, Sawtooth or Pulse Waveform, plus Noise for Oscillator 2
   •    Cross Modulation Between Oscillators
   •    Frequency Modulation with Envelope and/or Modulation
   •    VCF Low-Pass Filter with LFO, Envelope and Pitch Modulation
   •    Variable High-Pass Filter
   •    Four Stage Envelope Generator
   •    Low Frequency Oscillator for Vibrato Effects
   •    Selectable Dynamic Control Over Pitch, Filter and Amplifier per string
   •    Selectable Pitch Bend, Hold and Voice On/Off per String
   •    Lush Analog Chorus Mode
   •    Programming Via Foot switches or with optional PG-200 Programmer (deze zet ik later ook te koop)
   •    Dimensions: 27 3/16" (W) 14 3/4" (D) 6 1/8" (H)    •    WEIGHT: 
12 kg / 26 lb. 70 oz.
   •    Power Requirements: 45 watts
   •    Response Time: 29.88 ms

Introduction to the Roland GR-700:

The GR-700 is classic Roland 1980s analog synthesizer technology. Released in late 1984, the GR-700 is the pinnacle of early Roland guitar synthesizer design. The distinctive and futuristic GR-700 features both a digital CPU for guitar tracking and a warm, fat hybrid digital/analog synthesizer engine for lush sounds.

A look at articles written about the GR-700 in Guitar Player, Guitarist, and other magazines, plus the synthesizer's appearance on television shows like The Tonight Show (US) and the Rock School series (UK), demonstrate the enthusiasm in the belief that the long anticipated age of the guitar synthesizer had finally arrived. The GR-700 launched just as the MIDI standard was being introduced, and musicians were entering a brave new world of electronic music where relatively inexpensive CPUs made possible instruments like the Prophet 5, Simmons drums, and the GR-700, instruments unimaginable a decade earlier.

The GR-700 was played and recorded by such prominent guitarists as Al Dimeola, Robert Fripp, Chuck Loeb, Jimmy Page and Andy Summers. The GR-700 was the top-of-the-line guitar synthesizer system in the mid-eighties. Retail price on a GR-700 was almost two-thousand dollars. More recently, Amir Derakh (Orgy) has used the Roland GR-700 extensively on several records

Generally speaking, the GR-700 has not held up as well as its 24-pin brethren, like the GR-100 or GR-300. But for a guitar player in 1985, the GR-700 offered an astonishing range of sounds that could never have been triggered from a guitar: strings, basses, electronic effects, synths, and more. It was assumed that guitar players eventually would become fluent in GR-700 programming, and that the great silver box could become as ubiquitous as the wah-wah pedal.

Like the current generation of Roland guitar synths, the GR-700 controls the internal synth engine directly for faster response. But, make no mistake about it, when it comes to tracking the GR-700 is not a GR-300. Of all the products Roland has ever made, the GR-700 has the trickiest and most erratic tracking. The GR-700 is certainly better than equivalent products made by other manufactures at the time, but it is inferior to the GR-100, GR-300, GM-70, Korg Z3, or the Ibanez MC-1. The GR-700 has a MIDI out port for controlling other MIDI modules, but the MIDI output is erratic and unreliable. In addition, no pitch bend information is sent via MIDI.

Stand alone converters like the GM-70 became more popular toward the end of the eighties. They were faster and more accurate than the GR-700, plus via MIDI the range of sounds available to guitar players expanded considerably. The GR-700's combination of clunky pitch tracking, married to a limited synth engine, boxed up inside a huge, heavy foot pedal crammed with complex electronics made it more of a curiosity than a must-have piece of gear for the gigging musician. Still, for those who love the GR-700, nothing else sounds or responds quite like this unique guitar synthesizer.

The GR-700 has six, independent, analog synth voices, two oscillators on each voice. Roland digitally clocked these oscillators and called them "DCOs", as a response to the fact that the earlier Roland oscillator’s pitch had a tendency to drift in performance. The DCOs on the GR-700 generate classic analog waveforms: sawtooth wave, square wave, and pulse width modulated wave, as well a noise for special effects.

The oscillators on the GR-700 can also be synced with cross modulation for hard, biting analog sounds or with ring modulation for metallic sounds. The GR-700 has a sweet Low Pass Filter with Resonance on each voice, with an additional High Pass Filter. And of course there are complete LFO and Envelope controls. To top it all off, the GR-700 adds a classic Roland analog Chorus circuit! If you like that expansive Roland Chorus found on early 80s products, you will love the Chorus on the GR-700.

The synth engine in the GR-700 is the same synth engine found in the Roland MKS-30 and Jupiter JX-3P. And, like these synths, the Roland GR-700 can use the PG-200 as a programming tool.

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Roland GR-700 Analog Guitar Synthesizer with MIDI INPUT Mark Tsurata Modification
This version has an extra midi (IN - I believe) on the back so you can connect multiple units. Tim Skold did this adjustment via a company that put their tag on the unit as well: sticker says: Modified by MT Los Angeles, California. This is Roland engineer Mark

Price: 1350 euro ex 22,50 euro shipping (Holland with T&T and instured) / 50 (Europe, insured till 5k euro) / 155 (USA via track n trace and insured till 50o euro. Bigger option wasnt available via my carrier)
Pick up in Holland, Tilburg, near Station Tilburg Reeshof is preffered.
I am not responsible for import duties. Thats the buyers responsibility.

PS: don't mail me for tradings, nor to ship it to somewhere else then you and wire them money as well so they can send it to their nephew in Paris or whatever.