![]() ![]() It also seems to have a quirk exporting and importing STEREO wav files. The screen is really tiny so if you're eye-sight isn't 20 / 20, forget it. Anyway, the TASCAM is a great machine, but once again is too fiddly. It's really an 8 track recorder with a drum machine. I've owned a Zoom R24 eat concept, but is really fiddly to use. The VS2000 came with Roland software to convert the files to Wavs, but only on PPC Macs OS9 & OSX (PPC only) as well as PC ( Im not sure about that) There was some conversion systems around (info on VS Planet) to covert the CDs into Wavs, within windows based computers, & as has been said ,also Reaper can or could convert VS backups to Wavs. Just a few thoughts & my experience to give you a view into what you might be letting yourself into. It doesn't make sense to get rid of them when I know them inside out & they have never let me down. The VS 1680 & 2000 sound really good to me. Thats something I would really like to understand. Is it me? How good the VS s are/ were? or something in the digital summing in computer based DAWs? I still prefer the sound of the busy multitrack recordings of mine on the VS s to any I have done in Abelton Live/ Logic/ Reaper etc. I havnt used them for a while but Im hanging on to them, because like many here I have hundreds of recordings/ projects on them, more like thousands tbh, & most of them on backup cds, that can only be read by the Roland VS s.Īpart from that they are excellent recorders, with excellent, albeit fairly basic effects. There are mods / solutions eg SCSI/ modern media conversion kits available, but I havn't gone down that route, & dont need to with the VS2000 having a USB port & ability to back up recordings via that. You could fit a much larger external SCSI HD & these are available, though it would be used as multiple seperate 2GB partitions on a 500 GB HD eg. The VS1680 only has 2 GB built in HD, so you are forced to back up your recordings all the time to an external CD drive via SCSI. The VS2000 comes with a 40 gb hard drive, but that can be expanded to double & even more, it has a built in CD recorder & USB. The main issue with these now & especially the VS1680 ,is storage/ media. ![]() I like the sound of them & even the converters, though I always struggled getting good acoustic piano ( miked) recordings with the VS1680 s internal converters, the few times I was recording piano, but they were/ are perfectly fine for synths, electronic stuff, acoustic & electric guitar, vocals etc. the harmoniser & eq / com pression on every channel, though I prefer the VS1680, it just seems more streamlined somehow. I also have a VS2000 which is the last incarnation of the VS recorders, a great machine too, with some excellent additions eg. I paid over £2500 for mine new with a Plextor CD writer.
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