The Multiac was the first Godin guitar I purchased. Around 1995 I was very much into John McLaughlin’s acoustic trio with Kai Eckhardt on bass and Trilok Gurtu on percussion. I had been looking for a while to find a classical guitar that was easy to play and sounded good through an amplifier. This one also came with a MIDI pickup (although I didn’t know at first what I would use that for.)
Unlike my other two Godin acoustics, this one has a full hollow body and is quite loud by itself. The piezo pickup system sounds great and I used this guitar for many life gigs with a drummer. You have to really crank the volume and stand close to your amp to make it feed back. Eventually I wanted to find out what the MIDI pickup could do. At the time the Roland GR1 was the only guitar synth available in my price range. It was a good pick as it came with a boatload of sounds and easily connected to the Multiac. The GR1 also had a MIDI out connector (something the VG8 doesn’t have). And soon I had it linked up driving two EMU Proteus sound modules. One of my favorite life “shticks” was to use a balinese drum sound with non-equal tuning on the lower three strings. And of course layering all sorts of steel drums and orchestral sounds was spectacular. Unfortunately controlling all of this was complicated (when it worked at all.) Also not every show allowed me to come in two hours ahead to set it all up and sound check.
The Godin Multiac is a winner for me because it just works well.