It is a nice guitar processor, but the GR-55's PCM + COSM with GK support puts it in a stronger category.
I have a Roland GR-55 coupled with a nylon string Godin guitar (which limits my use of the non-clean tones anyway) and am perfectly happy with what the Roland unit can do, especially with open-tunings and playing specific instruments on some strings only (I do A LOT of walking bass + jazz/funk rhythmic chords), which the VoiceLive 3 cannot manage. Mostly for the Vocal one, the Looper and using it to drive other devices via MIDI. If anything, I did not get this unit for the Guitar layer. ).įYI, the Digitech unit was around AU$700,00 3 years ago and still has a decent resell value, while the VoiceLive 3 can be found AU$890,00 in (good) shops.
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the VoiceSupport software).Īs an introduction to this report, I got mine a month ago, to replace my 3 years old Digitech Vocalist 5 ( ), a great gear in general, but too "stand alone" (aka: no MIDI, limited customisation of patches, no user patch exchange, supports only 1 expression pedal. It is now officially available through the "official" channel (ie. In addition, users (including me) were waiting for the latest update, that correct looper glitches and adds a few features.Ĭraig, from TC-Helicon, posted it during the beta test and I snatched it straight away ^^ I really wanted to talk about this new unit ever since it was mentioned here but was also keen to wait until I actually had proper feedback and live experience with the unit myself. I have enjoyed this community's help beyond expectations, and while I do not manifest too often I do read you guys a lot. I am a proud owner of one and wanted to share my experience with you.