The Roland VG-88 V-Guitar System was introduced in 2000 as a successor to the VG-8, featuring advanced COSM instrument modeling. The unit was officially launched to the market that year, offering 26 modeled instrument types, and remained in production until roughly 2006–2008.
Here are the features for this: When it says "New" it means New = as of 2000
• Self-contained guitar processing/modeling system which recreates a wide variety of guitar, pickup, amp, speaker cabinet and microphone sounds using a standard electric guitar equipped with GK-2A or compatible pickup (sold separately)
• GK-Ready 13-pin input plus 1/4" guitar input for direct access to amp/speaker modeling sections
• Hollow-body and acoustic guitar models including new nylon string guitar
• Extremely natural tube amp models and overdriven sounds
• HRM (Harmonic Restructure Modeling) creates synth-type sounds—including new brass sounds—with natural playing nuances and without delay
• Combination guitar output/GK pickup output for completely new types of sounds
• Polyphonic Intelligent Pitch Shifter for instant open tunings, 12-string guitars, bass guitar, string-assignable octave, slow gear, and more
• Effects include reverb, chorus, hexa-pan, delay, flanger and parametric EQ
• Extremely intuitive operation w/ helpful operational graphics and icons
• Onboard expression pedal for realtime parameter control
• Output Select switch for connection to conventional guitar amps or power amps
• Offers 200 Preset and 100 User Patches, including newly-developed factory Patches
ROLAND PAGE FOR THE VG-88:
https://www.roland.com/se/products/vg-88/