Post your VG-99 Wish List - for future Rev 2 Firmware

[acousticglue]

I would like the Librarian to go away and from Editor have these functions:

1. Export all settings/patches (this function would by default be a different file type)
2. Browser includes Categorized View (rock, synth, etc.) and more categories.
3. A SWAP function where you can highlight first patch to swap to second patch and replace each other. This would be a kind of clipboard function.

Also, an easier setting/understanding of global volume function. Many people creating different patches and using these  with different devices make this a difficult to understand feature. The VG8 EX did not have this issue. I have a difficult enough time understanding between mixer views and amps and guitars and global assigns of where I can actually control the dadgum volumes of the way the patches were created. I simply use my VG99 out of monitors on studio rig/headphones. This drives one nuts. My Godin volume knob on many patches barely controls the volume up or down. So many ptaches are highly compressed I don't get enough lower volume to make difference and if I can't overall adjust this with the volume knob on unit, the more difficult it beomes.

These two topics alone are worth Roland fixing this.

After this, add more of whatever and better and then pitch bend stuff for midi.

[HAMERMAN409]

>5. The ability to put any pickup models on any guitar models in any number or combination, in or out of phase.
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>6. The ability to change the ohms in the pickup models anywhere from vintage to hot (overwound) for instance, a >Rickenbacker Pickup from the 60's would be in the 7.35 ohms area, where in the 80's that same identical looking pickup would >be in the 12.35 ohms area and have a VERY different sound.
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>7. Let us have the ability to have more control over pickup switching..eg..a 3 pickup stratocaster at this time only has 5 >positions, Bridge, Bridge & Middle, Middle, Middle & Neck, & Neck Alone..why can't we have the Bridge & Neck Pickups >together, or even all three on at the same time, if we want to?.

Great ideas and along those lines how about letting us set up groups of models/pickups all assignable to one "guitar" in the same fashion that a Line6 Variax can. This would assume you have your 5 way selector wired up to a controller input like somebody here has done or perhaps you set up S1 and S2 to be pickup selector up and down.

For example to be able to set up one one patch location with something like this:
Position 1: Strat Neck
Position 2: Strat Bridge and Middle
Position 3: Les Paul Neck
Position 4: Rick (6 string)
Position 5: Rick (12 string)

It would be great if you could go one step further and combine 5 patches into one "super" patch:
Position 1: Strat Neck through Fender amp
Position 2: Strat Bridge and Middle thought Fender amp with reverb
Position 3: Les Paul Neck through Marshall amp
Position 4: Rick (6 string) through Vox amp
Position 5: Acoustic through Tube Pre

I know this can be done by placing patches in the proper sequences but this way strikes me as much more useful in a live situation.

[Don Juan de Marco]

My wish for Roland would be that they manufacture a GK PICKUP with...
#1) 5-way pickup selector
#2) D-beam Controller
#3) Ribbon Controller
"ALL-TOGETHER-IN-ONE" GK divided pickup... It would not be impossible based on our technology now... Maybe they already have it... Maybe they're just holding back for future sales... We may never know 'til that time...

And as for the SOFTWARE...
#1) I wish they could add 3-5 pickups on the VARI guitar
#2)I wish they could add more GUITAR BRANDS like Musicman, Suhr, etc...

This would be for everyones benefit "when" these wishes happens... More power to the Admin and Mod of this site... Godspeed everyone... cheers!

[brentmoreland]

It would be nice if the 1- 10 buttons on the pedalboard could do something other than change patches.  I set up my patches by song, so once im in a patch, the other buttons become useless to me.  It would be nice for them to be aggignable, just like ctl 1 & 2.  Even the left three would be useful.

[vanceg]

It would be nice if the 1- 10 buttons on the pedalboard could do something other than change patches.  I set up my patches by song, so once im in a patch, the other buttons become useless to me.  It would be nice for them to be aggignable, just like ctl 1 & 2.  Even the left three would be useful.

Yup - That's been on the list of requests since the day the VG-99 was released.  It's sometimes called "Pedalboard Mode for FC-300".  The FC-300 is a very nice foot pedal, but personally I'm going to switch over to using a more lightweight pedal that is a little bit more flexible....even if I have to give up a little of the simplicity of setting up that the FC-300 offers.

[2pods]

I just wish it would arrive.

or, Roland to say there will be, or there won't be a firmware update once and for all.

Bah, humbug !

[vanceg]

Well, Honestly I don't expect anything at NAMM, but at this time of year, very few companies are going to announce anything - they would wait till NAMM.....Jan 15. Stay tuned. 

[fokof]

A rev 2 firmware update could also dust off some sales.
A couple of nice features added to the VG/VB99 could make some people pull the trigger on those things.

Just a thought....

Merry christmas to all!

[drbill]

I expect a version 2, either this year's NAMM or next. They won't goose the sales with just a firmware update, even if it amounts to the same thing.

[paults]

If they sell a limited edition of 400 red ones when v2 comes along, they can boost their sales

[aliensporebomb]

They need to promote the fact that people who are NAMES have these things and are using them.  But that's a marketing deal.

That being said, I spent the better part of Christmas day going thru all 970 or so VG-99 presets on the vguitarforums site.

Pretty much ALL of my presets from 1-200 are different now.  I have maybe 35-40 I need to go thru, maybe a few more but none of them are as shipped anyway.

All of the presets I've replaced I've edited for my own uses.  This is a deep box, so deep in fact that the original 200-400 presets don't really show what this box can do. 

I see pretty much everyone who's programmed it seems to get a different grasp of the box versus some of the other folks..  Some focus on gain stages and distortion type effects,
others are focusing on acoustic sounds and alternate tunings and some are focusing on synth and synth-like sounds.  Others are focusing on sounding like the guitar sound from a
particular band or song.   But everyone has their own little "niche".  I remember Bill Ruppert was going to come up with some kind of programming tutorial someday but maybe
we should have a sub-forum called "programming" and talk about the little things we've discovered (some of the best ones are discovered by accident!).

This is the GREAT thing about this forum, it might not seem like it right now but even though we don't have a software update some of these presets are so hair raisingly surprising
that it's almost like getting a software update.

So, yeah.  Check 'em out if you haven't already.

[mosdev58]

I would like to see auto-tune back, and 64 bit drivers are also a requirement

[djidoe]

64 bits drivers ARE out !

[cynegetic]

It may be neat to be able to go from the A/B parallel chains to one series chain.

With that many delays in a row you would need to get a degree in quantum mechanics. 

[mesaman]

Here's one I haven't seen listed before.  How about a global alternate tuning setting.  Sometimes I want to play through several patches in the same (non-standard) tuning.  It would be nice to have a global tuning override, that would turn on alternate tuning and set a specific tuning across all patches while enabled.