Hi Josh & welcome to the party. Some of our members actually have the Roland system and can no doubt give you as many details as you can handle...
> Also, what does it do, and what kind of > guitar is Joni using it with, I've heard a custom-made strat! But how can you > build a Strat? Didn't she already have the Strat and then send it off to > Roland to have them do the modifications that were required before it could > work with the system? I believe her first guitar for the Roland system was a modified Strat. One of the reasons she went with the Parker Fly was that it is very light weight-only about 3 pounds. The heavier guitars were hurting her back too much. As Bree said, each string can be processed independently, so at the touch of a footswitch, the user can change from any tuning to any other. I think it was Graham Nash who first introduced her to a prototype of the system, knowing it was the perfect thing for her. Besides the tuning, you can assign a different sound to each string if you want to. So you could, for example, make one string sound like a bass guitar, another like a drum, another like a trumpet, etc. RR
