VG-99 Editor Using the Editor

Started by Elantric, January 23, 2008, 08:24:27 PM

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GuitarBuilder

Is there another source for the VG-99 editor files and drivers?  The Roland support pages appear to be gone; I just got a VG-99 and would like to interface it with my Mac Pro.  Thanks!
"There's no-one left alive, it must be a draw"  Peter Gabriel 1973

gumtown

Free "GR-55 FloorBoard" editor software from https://sourceforge.net/projects/grfloorboard/

GuitarBuilder

Cool, thanks!  I was using an old link.... ::)
"There's no-one left alive, it must be a draw"  Peter Gabriel 1973

gumtown

Free "GR-55 FloorBoard" editor software from https://sourceforge.net/projects/grfloorboard/

Rusty Kirkland

I looked thru Elantric's images of all the different VG-99 controls that show up in the Editor.
Question: I know that I can evaluate signal/gain/levels with the Chain button on the hardware
but I'm not seeing that ability in the Editor (unless I'm just overlooking it...)

??

Rusty

Kebbel

I bought a used VG-99 that came with no CD and a Japanese manual. I  downloaded the VG-99 Editor program to Windows 7 inside Parallels (lets you run Windows on a Mac). It crashed a LOT but I muddled through. I had a disaster happen tonight that I never want to see again.  I spent days finding and modifying patches for our repertoire and then tonight accidentally wrote over 40 patches (still don't know how one patch wrote itself over the 40 others??)  So ...

(1) How do you back up your VG-99 patches to recover from something like this, OR create different patch sets for different venues that you can swap back and forth like on the Rolan GT1 software?

(1) Also, is the VG-99 Librarian a separate program, or are the two combined? If Librarian is separate, where can I download it?

Brent Flash

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Quote from: Kebbel on April 09, 2021, 06:18:10 PM
I bought a used VG-99 that came with no CD and a Japanese manual. I  downloaded the VG-99 Editor program to Windows 7 inside Parallels (lets you run Windows on a Mac). It crashed a LOT but I muddled through. I had a disaster happen tonight that I never want to see again.  I spent days finding and modifying patches for our repertoire and then tonight accidentally wrote over 40 patches (still don't know how one patch wrote itself over the 40 others??)  So ...

(1) How do you back up your VG-99 patches to recover from something like this, OR create different patch sets for different venues that you can swap back and forth like on the Rolan GT1 software?

(1) Also, is the VG-99 Librarian a separate program, or are the two combined? If Librarian is separate, where can I download it?
I wrote a how to or explanation of these programs a while back. It may help. https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=51.0

gumtown

The Librarian is installed as a separate application, but is par of the Editor install package.
In your Windows Start menu, look down to the VG-99 Editor menu folder and the Librarian is in there.

Not all patch files are a single patch, but you can check the file sizes to an approximate gauge of how many patches are in it, a single patch is about 6kB in size.

Also the patch files with the *.mid files extension are exported/imported with the Editor, the native *.9gl file format also contains system data which will overwrite your system & GK settings, avoid those files unless they came from your own VG-99.
Free "GR-55 FloorBoard" editor software from https://sourceforge.net/projects/grfloorboard/

Rusty Kirkland

.. hey all...

no VU meter in the Chain in the Editor??

Rusty

admin

Quote from: Rusty Kirkland on July 16, 2021, 03:14:43 PM
.. hey all...

no VU meter in the Chain in the Editor??

Rusty

VU Metering is only available  on the actual VG-99 Hardware

VU metering is Not available on official Roland VG-99 Editor either- requires too much data bandwidth to support