The VG-88 can do virtual scordatura instantly with the guitar still tuned to standard tuning.

I found that disconcerting at first, hearing dropped D or GAGDAD but still feeling the vibrations and cancellations of standard tuning in the neck, but the feature is a gas for live gigging and carrying only one guitar.

VG-88 also contains a CAPO feature that works the same way, by electronically remapping the sample set. You can put the nut anywhere on the neck and even behind the actual nut. Instantly, because it is all electronic.

With the VG-88, these two features are hidden in a way and require mucho tweaking to obtain, a job for a truly nutty MIDIOT type geek, only crazier, but possible.

The Line 6 modeling guitars do this also, electronically, actually do it easier and faster than the old VG-88 could.


--Mac