I have a Strat VG, and was wondering if anyone knows how to alter the factory preset tunings. For example, one of the settings is for a drop D tuning, which to me is impractical, as it takes me five seconds to drop an E string down to D. I would rather change this setting to an open E tuning which would be much more useful to me. I figure since it's a digital pickup, there must be a way to manipulate it. Anyone have any suggestions?

Mark that option is not available on the VG. It would have been nice to offer but it would require processing power and memory that the circuits do not have. I believe the alternate tunings are "burn't in" to the chip itself and not programmable. Sorry If you figure out a way to do it let me know...

On a brighter note welcome to the forum...

Thanks for the info, that's the best answer I've received so far. If I find out any more, I'll post it.