Roland VG-8

This Roland VG-8 Guitar Synth is part of the estate of a recently deceased friend who had a large collection of guitars, pedals and amps. I am selling this item and other items from the collection to benefit his widow. If you would like to see other items from my friend’s estate enter “Hank’s gear” in the search box.

The VG-8 is in excellent operating condition and very good cosmetic condition. Included with the VG-8 unit is full documentation, two CDs containing sound samples, and a “Traditional 1” sound library data card. Not included is a GK guitar pickup or the 13-pin cable that connects a GK-equipped guitar to the unit. These items are easily found here on Reverb or on eBay.

Here’s a description of this unit from Roland’s web site:

“The Roland VG-8 is a breakthrough guitar processor that uses advanced modeling technology to emulate the most popular guitars and amplifiers in music history. Using Roland’s Composite Object Sound Modeling (COSM) technology, the VG-8 combines multiple "sound objects"—like double-cutaway guitar bodies, vintage tweed amplifiers, and humbucking pickups—to create a perfect reproduction of these components that can be played from any steel-stringed guitar with a Roland GK-2A pickup. The VG-8 also has a built-in polyphonic pitch shifter for creating 12-string guitars and open tunings as well as a complete digital effects processor and parametric EQ.”

• 128 Preset Patches, 64 User Patches
• VGM (Variable Guitar Modeling) provides multiple sound object models including guitars, pickups, amps, cabinets, microphones and even mic placement
• HRM (Harmonic Restructure Modeling) for creating new synth-type sounds No tracking delay – through the GK-2A pickup, the VG-8 converts the actual waveform produced by each string into a totally new sound in realtime
• Polyphonic intelligent pitch shifter for 12-string guitars, open tunings, bass guitar emulation, etc.
• High-speed digital effects processing including reverb, chorus, hexa-pan, delay and parametric EQ – all simultaneously

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me.