Tell me about the VG-99 synth presets?

[Peekaboo Fuzzy]

Are there some nice John Carpenter type sweep presets, where you can have distortion through your gutar amplifier and then the sweeping synth sound out of a clean amp/keyboard amp at the same time?

[aliensporebomb]

Yes. But you don't necessarily need to use two amps even though you could.

It might even sound better to go direct into the board.

See:
http://pod.ath.cx/vg99/Rigsby%20Reloaded-24-final.mp3

This track has an example of a distorted rhythm guitar with a synth pad
that is subtly lower in volume below it. Then I added a bass part as well
as a clean piezo guitar with a regular clean guitar along with it.

All of the sounds you hear are the VG99 (excepting drums which is just
a quick drum loop).

The lead solo is a distorted lead with a synth patch tracking alongside
so it gives a nice doubled thickness and you can really hear the synthy
stuff when I let the low E sustain alongside and the descending chords
happening towards the end.

The guy to hear is Bill Ruppert (baranger1 on this board), he's got some
amazing self-created synth patches for the VG99.