The Roland VG-8EX is a breakthrough guitar processor that uses advanced modeling technology to emulate the most popular guitars and amplifiers in music history. Using Roland’s Composite Object Sound Modeling (COSM™) technology, the VG-8EX combines multiple "sound objects"—like double-cutaway guitar bodies, vintage tweed amplifiers, and humbucking pickups—to create a perfect reproduction of these components that can be played from any steel-stringed guitar with a Roland GK-2A pickup. The VG-8EX also has a built-in polyphonic pitch shifter for creating 12-string guitars and open tunings as well as a complete digital effects processor and parametric EQ.

• 128 Preset Patches, 64 User Patches
• VGM (Variable Guitar Modeling) provides multiple sound object models including guitars, pickups, amps, cabinets, microphones and even mic placement
• HRM (Harmonic Restructure Modeling) for creating new synth-type sounds No tracking delay – through the GK-2A pickup, the VG-8 converts the actual waveform produced by each string into a totally new sound in realtime
• Polyphonic intelligent pitch shifter for 12-string guitars, open tunings, bass guitar emulation, etc.
• High-speed digital effects processing including reverb, chorus, hexa-pan, delay and parametric EQ – all simultaneously
• Note that this product is no longer in production. Similar capabilities can be found in the VG-88 V-Guitar System.