Guitar patches to sound like your favourite guitarist. Gr 55 floorboard is a small, easytouse application specially designed to offer you a midi editing tool for use with the roland gr 55. Recently, we received a call from the owner of a gkequipped stratocaster and a gr09 guitar synth. The roland gr55 is a revolution in guitar synthesis, with features never before available in any guitar processor. Roland gr 55 guitar synthesizer for over 35 years, roland guitar synthesizers have provided guitar and bass players with the means to coax astonishing sounds from their instruments. Hence, the gr 55 patch should be set to trigger one note at a time. Simply load the patch file bundle, plug in a midi foot control device or similar, and select the midi input and output devices from the preferences menu. Gr55 floorboard is a small, easytouse application specially designed to offer you a midi editing tool for use with the roland gr 55 guitar synthesizer. Roland gr55 midi patch file loader an application which can preload a gr55 librarian patch file bundle in. All of these may be downloaded at no charge and loaded into the user bank of the gr 55 using the roland included gr 55 librarian software, or there is an excellent shareware program for programming the gr 55.
Furthermore, the cosm guitarmodeling engine needs zero detection time, allowing the gr 55 to respond instantly and exactly as you play. I have been using a gr 20 for some years a gr 50 before that, and a gr 700 even before that so im a long time user of roland guitar synths. Press exit several times to return to the main menu. Roland gr55gk synthesizer schwarz thomann osterreich. If you are looking for a patch editor there is a very good free one called the gr 55 floorboard. This album was recorded with my usual gear at the time.
This is a total of 297 user patches for customization and editing writesave. Realtime editing and patch data backups, bulk patch editing. Robert marcello demonstrates his collection of custom gr55 patches. On a vg99, there is a global sensitivity adjustment to match the response of the system to the pickup on a specific controller instrument. Roland gr55 guitar synthesizer robert marcello artist patches. Im trying to set up my new roalnd gr 55 guitar synth to record my midi tracks, and to save my life i cant figure this out. We have 2 roland gr 55 manuals available for free pdf. The gr 55 represents roland s latest breakthrough advances in guitar synthesis, offering playability, features, and sound quality that far surpasses the capabilities of. Download gr 55 floorboard a small midi editing software. Gr 55 librarian is a software that allows you to manage sound patches in the gr 55 with your computer. Thanks to roland s decades of research and dedication to guitar synthesizers and powerful new pitch detection technology, the gr 55 is far and away the fastest guitar synth ever. Axial has patches from a number of classic roland synthesizers like the jupiter8, juno106, tb303, sh101, d50, alpha juno, and xv5080. Preset and adding artist patches with gr55 librarian application in the gr 55 there are 99 user banks with 3 user patches per bank available for customization. Gr55 librarian is an application that lets you use your computer to manage gr 55 user patch settings as libraries.
Details about roland gr 55 1,500 custom presets artists patches effects amps tones. Although roland has tested numerous configurations, and has determined that on average, a computer system similar to that described above will permit normal operation of the gr 55 librarian, roland cannot guarantee that a given computer can be used satisfactorily with the gr 55. The patches already built into the gr 55 are called preset patches. The window displays user patches in the gr 55 as lists, and it includes categories where you can edit names, add comments, and change the order in which information appears according to keywords. In the main librarian window press read all, this will upload all current gr 55 patches to the librarian.
These are the soudns that did not fall into the lead or. In some patches, there may also be a second trigger sensitivity parameter that only applies to that. I picked up my gr 55 about a week ago, and have been trying to get a handle on its strengths and limitations. Provides an overview of key features, functions and operational tips. Gr55 is a professional audio synthesizer for windows os. It caused gr 55 no sound that the gr 55 librarian wrote a patch including a drum kit to the gr 55 s user patch. In addition to settings determining the type of sound, a patch also contains effect settings. How to sound like your favourite guitarists roland. Two types of multieffects engines, plus global reverb, chorus, and delay effects, and an onboard looper. Here are some sound samples recorded with my roland gr55. If you have a keyboard amp, such as a roland kc350 or other pro quality amp, or a pa. They show off the amazing versatility and wideranging sound capability of the gr 55, which provides both synthesizer voices and authentic guitar and amp tones using powerful onboard cosm modeling. Roland gr55 guitar synthesizer robert marcello artist. Furthermore, the cosm guitarmodeling engine needs zero detection time, allowing the gr55 to respond instantly and exactly as you play.
Roland gr55 artist patches guitar multieffects presets. I bought this new unit to replace my gr 55, and it is for me primarily a guitar synthesizer. Over 900 of roland s latest fully editable pcm sounds, including pianos, organs, strings, vintage synths, and much more. All of these may be downloaded at no charge and loaded into the user bank of the gr55 using the roland included gr55 librarian software, or there is an excellent shareware program for programming the gr55. Axial get new sounds for your roland synth roland australia. Artist and collection patches and librarian roland. A demo of the of the roland gr55 guitar synthesizers other patches built into the unit. The roland gr 55 is a revolution in guitar synthesis, with features never before available in any guitar processor. The gr55 is a guitar synthesizer that includes a wide variety of sounds. Although roland has tested numerous configurations, and has determined that on average, a computer system similar to that described above will permit normal operation of the gr 55 librarian, roland cannot guarantee that a given computer can be used satisfactorily with the gr 55 librarian based solely on. Here are some sound samples recorded with my roland gr 55. We have 2 roland gr55 manuals available for free pdf download.
You can return patches to the gr 55 s memory by 1 opening the library 2 copying the desired patches into the main librarian window 3 sending them back to the gr 55 using the write all or write. Most of these are sampled from the original instruments and processed using rolands supernatural sound engine, in order to recreate a tweakable yet playable patch. The vguitar forums is full of gr 55 and vg99 demos and examples, tastefully done, unlike some utube ones which show off extremities of tones much like the roland preset patches. I normally use my yamaha digital piano via midi cables to my focusrite saffire and its pretty effortless. The librarian download will provide instructions for uploading and offloading patches to and from the gr 55. Thanks to rolands decades of research and dedication to guitar synthesizers and powerful new pitch detection technology, the gr55 is far and away the fastest guitar synth ever. How to rock out with alternate patches roland canada. Gr 55 floorboard is a small, easytouse application specially designed to offer you a midi editing tool for use with the roland gr 55 guitar synthesizer. Gr 55 librarian for windows gr 55 librarian for macintosh. Added new 90 guitar and 18 bass patches as preset patch. When using patches which the pedalgk ctl ctl or exp sw parameter was set to each effect sw, editting the effect onoff parameter was not linked with the status of each effect sw.
These are the soudns that did not fall into the lead or rhythm category. In the future, you can open this library and add or remove patches to keep all of your gr 55 patches stored in an order that makes sense to you. This tool allows graphical representation of the internal settings and parameters of the gr 55. This allows you to manage numerous user patches efficiently with your computer. In its simplest usage, the gr55 is a repository of some of boss best guitar effects like reverb, delay and chorus that sound great. Owners manual, training manual roland gr 55 owners manual 96 pages. Mar 05, 2011 a demo of the of the roland gr 55 guitar synthesizers other patches built into the unit. View online or download roland gr 55 owners manual.
Roland gr 55 training guide using the value dial, select the sound source you are connecting the gr 55 to. Hai, all tones from this site is very touching, i am always using all tones downloading from this site. Its also the most accurate, thanks to newly developed pitchdetection technology. Although roland has tested numerous configurations, and has determined that on average, a computer system similar to that described above will permit normal operation of the gr 55 librarian, roland cannot guarantee that a given computer can be used satisfactorily with the gr 55 librarian based solely on the fact that it meets the above. This is a driver for using the gr 55 on mac os x 10. Any product name or trademarks used by the users to describe their patches are the sole property of their respective owners.
Over 900 of rolands latest fully editable pcm sounds, including pianos, organs, strings, vintage synths, and much more. In its simplest usage, the gr 55 is a repository of some of boss best guitar effects like reverb, delay and chorus that sound great. Gr 55 librarian is an app that allows you to manage sound patches in the gr 55 with your computer. Adobe reader available free of charge is required in order to view the online manual.
This is a file library, use roland s software to use the patches. Roland s gr 55 guitar synthesizer is a revolutionary new product combining pcm synthesis with digital instrument modeling derived from the respected vg99 vguitar system. These patches feature both keyboard and guitar sounds from 25 famous songs. Stay up to date with roland news, artists, promotions, events, and more. Realtime editing and patch data backups are also offered. In the future, you can open this library and add or remove patches to keep all of your gr55 patches stored in an order that makes sense to you. While i have no previous roland gk experience i do have a fair amount of pitch tracking experience with hardware effects such as boss oc2 analog mono octaver, boss se70 synth effects, boss vf1 synth effects, boss gt10b synth effects, sonuus b2m pitchto. You can modify edit the settings of a patch, and save it as a user patch. You can return patches to the gr55s memory by 1 opening the library 2 copying the desired patches into the main librarian window 3 sending them back to the gr55 using the write all or write. As for sound, the triplecore generator houses a worldclass array of virtual guitars, basses, amps. Heldensounds fur roland gr55 guitarsynthmodeler bonedo. Not only does it feature a good selection of synthesizer sounds, the onboard cosm effect modeling gives it the ability to create some sounds similar to vguitar systems like the vg88, but it isnt a full vguitar system. The patches already built into the gr55 are called preset patches. Connect the left and right main outputs of the gr 55 to two channels of the amp or pa.
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