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Panel Descriptions

ACOUSTIC:

1
STANDARD
The acoustic guitar with a flat top and back
2 ROUND The flat top acoustic guitar with a round
back made of resin
3 METAL A metal body guitar with one cone
resonator, suitable for bottle-neck (slide)
playing techniques.
4
NYLON STR
Guitars using nylon or gut strings
5 BANJO A plucked string instrument with a skin-
covered body.
6 UKULELE A plucked string instrument with a small
body and nylon strings.

SPECIAL:

1 BOWED This sound represents stringed musical
instruments played with a bow.
2 PIPE This sound is like a soft woodwind lead
instrument.
3 ORGAN Sustained organ-like sound.
4 BRASS Soft brass-like sound.
5 SOLO Soft lead sound.
6 SYNTH 1 Synth sound with filter sweep.
7 SYNTH 2 Synth sound with modulation.
8
FILTER BASS
A sound reminiscent of a bass with filter
applied.
When ACOUSTIC or SPECIAL is selected, setting the
AMP TYPE (p. 28) in the COSM AMP section to “FULL
RANGE” is very effective.
3 Pickup Button [PICKUP]
Depending on the type (variation) of COSM guitar, you can
select the pickup or mic.
* If the COSM guitar type is SPECIAL, the pickup selection is
ignored.

F:

Use the front pickup.

C:

Use the center pickup.

R:

Use the rear pickup.

PIEZO: (type: ACOUSTIC)

Use the piezo pickup.

MIC: (type: ACOUSTIC)

Use a hypothetical mike ideal for picking up the sound of an
acoustic guitar.
* If either ST, LP, TEL, or HOLLOW is selected, you can select
a setting in which two pickups are used simultaneously.
F+C: When ST is selected
F+R: When either LP, TEL, or HOLLOW is selected
C+R: When ST is selected
You can use the S1/S2 switch to switch pickups. (p. 19)
4 Tuning Button [TUNING]
You can perform using various tunings that are set on the
VGA-7, without actually retuning the guitar.
Each time you press the button, the tuning type will
alternate.
* If the COSM guitar type is SPECIAL, tunings other than
NORMAL cannot be selected.
You can select variations for 12 STRING, OPEN TYPE, and
NASHVILLE types.
Selecting variations (p. 23)

NORMAL:

This is the conventional tuning in which the strings are
pitched starting from the 6th string as E/A/D/G/B/E.

12 STRING:

This tuning simulates the sound of a 12-string guitar.
1 REGULAR A higher octave is added to strings 6–3,
and strings 2 and 1 are doubled at the same
pitch.
2 OCTAVE A higher octave is added to strings 6–1.
3 DETUNE Adds a slight off-pitch sound to the
original sounds of strings 6–1.

OPEN TYPE:

A tuning indispensable for blues, effective when played with
a slide bar.
1 OPEN D Starting from the 6th string, the strings will
be pitched D, A, D, F#, A, D.
2 OPEN G Starting from the 6th string, the strings will
be pitched D, G, D, G, B, D.
3
DROPPED D
Only string 6 is lowered a whole step.
Starting from the 6th string, the strings will
be pitched D, A, D, G, B, E.