via this auction
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"The PG-380 electronics include a built-in, monotimbral, playback-only synthesizer using VZ technology, with 64 preset sounds in internal ROM (See the above website for a listing of all the sounds). However, a door on the back of the guitar allows insertion of a RAM card for playback of sounds created on a VZ-1, VZ-8M, or VZ-10M.
The internal synth does offer one useful feature: It operates in legato mode. That is, while in chromatic mode, if you pick a fretted string and then slide your finger up the fretboard, you won't get a new attack from the synth at each fret, as you will with an external MIDIed synth."
You can find more info here.
I remember as a brand new employee at Guitar Center on the North Side of Chicago, my manager told me to grab our floor model PG 380 and hop into his car. We drove to the Rosemont Horizon and were ushered backstage to a large dressing room. About 20 minutes later, holding a sandwich, in walks Angus Young. I was completely starstruck and speechless, but I somehow got through all the features and functions of the guitar. It was really a piece of crap (that VZ engine was anemic, IMHO), but at the time, it was really the only **affordable** guitar synth out there. He said "great, I'll take it" and paid in cash.
ReplyDeleteHe was shorter than I'd thought.
an instrument that is a stick with strings on this site! AGGGHHHHH!!! How caveman
ReplyDeleteJJ Cale has used one as his primary guitar for years.
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