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Rorster:
Sorry about this basic newbie of a question here but, Is the "Santana" patch here a vg99 patch
http://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2189.0
and would that matter if the hope is to use it in the GR 55? 
Next question is, once downloaded, how do you get it into the GR 55. I've read about folks sharing their custom patches but I haven't gotten into this aspect of the game yet. Would like to learn though. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

aliensporebomb:
Yes, it's very possible IMO.

First of all, I'm a VG-99 owner and sometimes to check out GR-55 patches I download their patches and open them in the GR-55 editor.  You can do the same in a
vice versa method - download the VG-99 editor and open the .MID file in this thread using that and duplicate the settings in the 55.

Once you've got it, fine tune to taste and then you will be good to go.  This guys patch is pretty darn good, even better than the one I did which sounds more
like Allan Holdsworth than Carlos Santana (my "Pod's Not Santana" patch). 

Someone, someday will make a lot of money (or at least a lot of flowers and greeting cards) if they write a VG-99 to GR-55 / GR-55 to VG-99 patch conversion software.

Rorster:
Thanks. Though when you say "Open it in the editor" I'm not sure of the sequence of how you do that. File gets downloaded to PC then? How does it then get opened in the GR editor? Using the librarian? Or some other way?

aliensporebomb:
-Download the .MID file. (VG-99 Patch from our Forum)

-Download the Roland VG-99 Editor. (The VG-99 Editor will run and load VG-99 patches - even if you do not have an actual  VG-99 connected.)

-Once the editor is launched select FILE then IMPORT SMF.

-It will pop up a box that allows you to point to files on your hard drive.  Search for the SANTANA.MID and select open.

-Once opened you can see in the VG-99 Editor the various settings for the preset/patch. - write them down.

Rorster:
Thanks. Those directions are quite specific and should be useful to me. Now I gather that you also recommended downloading the editor for the VG 99 which I do not own but, (I'm a GR 55 owner) you suggest that a VG 99 custom patch can be downloaded from a sharing site and whose patch's parameters can be utilized to create a similar (though perhaps not exact) patch that the 55 can read/use? If this is the case, then this is a pretty ingenious concept. I'll be giving these new ideas a further look at. Groovy baby.

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