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I have used their GK-3 pickups extensively, which I think are ugly, but they do work pretty well and also allow you to separate your straight guitar sounds to your pedalboard, all the sounds and effects you would normally use, and keep the synth access separate. 99% of the time you will not want or need effects on top of the synth sounds.

Something changed on the GR-55... they left a sonic filter out that used to be included in previous versions... so guitars with built in hexaphonic pickups don't perform as well on the GR-55 as they did on previous guitar synths. But the GK-3 works fine. I have a Godin LGXT, but since buying the GR-55, I put a GK-3 on the Godin!

Ahhhhh, the battle rages on. Nothing against Roland, they are a class act all the way. I'm SURE whatever they changed makes the newer product track better! Good to know though, I've been eying the GR-55 for a quite some time.


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The synth-ready guitars by Godin and Carvin are really nice because you don't see all the extra hardware. But, I don't think there is a way to route your normal signal to your effects. But that may be the case only with the nylon string classical synth ready guitar, if you get the electric maybe you can.

The Godin guitars do provide a way to keep the guitar signal separate from the synth (OR combined, or both)

Maybe I should try plugging in to the quarter inch jack? Lol


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I saw Al DiMeola in concert recently and he had one of those monophonic converters on the whole time, with a volume pedal to just bring it in on little runs when he wanted to. As you may know he is exceedingly fast on guitar and whatever he was using it kept right up.

I'd love to know what he was using. The COSM stuff is FAST! NO latency! But even on pro MIDI gear, there is still latency when triggering synth tones or patches. . [/quote]

I have no idea what he was using but I'm sure whatever it was, it was top of the line. There's probably an endorsement deal in the works somewhere

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