Got home and the damn AC adapter wasn't in the box. Son of a bitch. :-[
Not sure if it was never there or I accidentally left it in my studio at work (I don't remember taking it out, so...)
Shit.
So, no playing with the toy until tomorrow night...provided I can get an adapter.
Just glad I bought local so that I can go to the store and say, "WTF?" and have the situation fixed immediately if it indeed is their fault...
But if it's my fault, I'm going to feel like a complete tool.
Tripper
Hey Tripper,
I feel your GAS pain! ;D
I have a GR-55 on order and was hoping to get it for the weekend but no luck so far.
Cheers,
jayson
Cool ... we are looking forward to clips!
Turns out it wasn't my fault, it was the store, but they took care of it very quick - sorry to hear you haven't gotten yours yet, Jayson.
I'm such a noob to guitar synthesis it's going to take me a while to really figure out the settings and techniques that will really make this work.
There are some super cool sounds in there, but like all Roland stuff, it's quite a learning curve to get new things programmed - I've never been a fan of their interfaces.
I'll do my best to get some clippage happening soon, but it might take me a little while to figure this beast out.
Tripper
Taking it back to the store (hopefully - if not, it's going on Craigslist).
Couldn't sort out the tracking issues even though I installed the GK-3 exactly right based on instructions and then spent HOURS tweaking the GK-3 and the GR-55 itself based on instructions both in the manuals and on vguitarforums.com, not to mention adjusting my technique. Got almost there, but it was still frustrating - double-triggering stuff, etc...
And the GR-55 interface was ANNOYING to me. Typical Roland, though - they always make things needlessly hard to tweak (even though they're usually DEEP).
In the end, just not worth the money for me based on its utility for my purposes. Plus I'm not the type of person who enjoys spending hours making something work - I like it to just work. This didn't, even after following Roland's instructions to the letter.
I'm glad others are having a much better time with theirs...
Tripper
Yeah, I was a big fan of Guitar To MIDI in the beginning. I could get mine to track pretty well, but like you said the Roland gear is not always the easiest to tweak. Their documentation led me to believe that those who wrote the manuals were keeping secrets...........