RRP £749. The Roland GR-55 guitar synth ships bundled with the Roland GK-3 Divided
pickup.

The Roland GR-55 guitar synthesizer delivers lightning-fast
tracking and previously impossible sound-making capabilities. The Roland GR-55
guitar synth features two independent synthesizer sound engines, each with over
900 of Roland's sounds, including pianos, organs, strings, vintage and modern
synths, percussion, and many more. A third sound engine is driven by Composite
Object Sound Modeling COSM, the guitar modelling technology behind Roland's
VG-99 V-Guitar System. With COSM, the Roland GR-55 guitar synth can emulate
electric and acoustic guitars, basses, and other instruments, as well as guitar
and bass amplifiers.

The Roland GR-55 allows players to combine all three
sound engines, plus their guitar's normal input, to create any sound from the
familiar to the original. An independent multi-effects processor is available on
the Roland GR-55 for a huge array of tone-shaping options, plus global reverb,
chorus, delay effects and EQ to add final sweetening to any sound.

The
Roland GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer features a USB song player which plays WAV
format audio files stored on USB flash memory. Song playback can be controlled
with the onboard pedals. The Roland GR-55 guitar synthesizer also functions as
an USB 2.0 audio MIDI interfaceto record GR-55 sounds as audio in the DAW and
using the GR-55 guitar synth's pitch-to-MIDI capabilities to trigger MIDI sounds
such as virtual synths and samplers with their guitar.

The Roland GR-55
guitar synth is equipped with Roland's 13-pin GK interface. It is possible to
use the Roland GR-55 guitar synth as an effect processor for a non-GK equipped
guitar, but to access the GR-55 guitar synth's range of guitar sounds,
guitarists must use an instrument equipped with a GK-compatible pickup such as
the included Roland GK-3 Hex pickup. The Roland GK-3 Divided pickup can be
easily installed on most steel string guitars with no modification to the
instrument.