Roland VM3100PRO V-Mixing Station

Flexible, 8-bus design, and onboard effects. Scene Memory and MIDI Capabilities. Expandable.

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"Totally amazing! Great sound, so flexible, a must have."

So many features I haven't been able to discover them all yet. Great for recording and superb for live mixing. Once you've sound checked, just save the mix and its ready when your on! Inputs could be more flexible, but space is obviously a premium as it is so small. Also user interface is not very user friendly at times (as with all Roland stuff). The compressor effect is great, but the reverb is absolutely awful but I use other effects processors anyway as the onboard effects are very limited (two only). Can't beat it for value for money and compactness when you look at the size of an analogue desk with the same number of channels and busses, you need a van to take them to gigs and some serious cash to buy + they dont have half the features. By the way it is not 12 bus in total as the info on this site says because the digital outs are linked to analogue busses 3/4 and 5/6, but 8 is still easily enough for anyone.

Submitted: 8/4/2001

Style of Music: All sorts - mine is rock/dance/pop - I record other bands in my studio


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"Good but complicated"

I use it as a digital mixer for my computer music setup. I like the fact that it has optical and spdif digital ins and outs. Basically you have 8 analog ins and 2 stereo digital ins plus the R bus (an 8 track cable you can use that only with other Roland devices). The overall tone quality is great and the features (once you figure out how they work) are amazing. For instance there is a great speaker emulation feature (ns-10's, tv speakers...)but even after doing it for 10 times I still have to look at the manual. The routing of inputs to outputs is also very impressive, although again be prepared to spend some time trying to figure it out. There is also an extra input for guitars, which comes in very handy since you don't need a D.I. For a small home computer studio setup I highly recommend it.

Submitted: 1/30/2003

Style of Music: Various


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Description
Truly Affordable Digital Mixing
The compact and affordable VM3100Pro V-Mixing Station represents the arrival of professional-quality digital mixing at an extremely affordable price. This 20-channel tabletop digital mixer offers full 24-bit resolution and uncompromising sound quality via Roland's best A/D and D/A converters, ensuring absolute fidelity to the original sound source. Because this mixer is digital, it introduces no noise or hum into a signal path — even at minimum signal levels — and is free from annoying analog mixer problems like noisy faders or crosstalk.

Flexible 8-Bus Design and Onboard Effects
Because it is digitally controlled, the VM3100Pro is able to be configured as a full 8-bus mixer via its stereo Main, Auxiliary, Bus, and Monitor outputs. This flexible mixer also offers digital output via its Digital Out A and Digital Out B output busses, bringing the total number of busses to 12 — a feat which would be impossible for any compact analog mixer. Channel inputs include 2 balanced Mic/Line inputs with phantom-powered XLR or standard TRS jacks, 6 unbalanced Mic/Line inputs (including a Hi-Z input for plugging in a guitar), and 4 line inputs. An S/PDIF Coaxial/Optical Digital Input is also included for loss-less operation.

The VM3100Pro's powerful onboard dual-stereo multi-effects processors offer compression insert effects on any 2 channels, as well as reverb, chorus, delay, guitar/keyboard/vocal multi-effects, RSS Processing, Microphone Simulation, and even new COSM Speaker Modeling. Without exception, these effects deliver a sonic punch far beyond any product in this class. And because these effects are built-in to the mixer, they are virtually noiseless, and their settings can be stored and recalled with other mixer data in an instant.

Scene Memory and MIDI Capabilities
One of the biggest advantages of digital mixers is their ability to save and recall mixer "Scenes" in an instant. Scenes are like comprehensive snapshots of a digital mixer, including all signal routing, EQ adjustments, channel panning, effects patches, and parameters. So the ability to store and instantly access these complete settings for a specific song is no small thing; it can save hours of hard work. Connecting the VM3100Pro to a Mac or PC-based MIDI sequencer lets users control scene changes, fader levels and more via realtime MIDI messages. Conversely, the VM3100Pro can be used as a 16-channel MIDI mixer that can send MIDI volume changes, MMC start/stop commands, etc.

Perfect for a Range of Applications
Its powerful features and attractive pricing make the VM3100Pro the perfect compact digital mixer not only for home recording studios, but also for keyboard rigs, project studios, and more. Quite simply, this digital mixer stands as a powerful centerpiece of the "digital solution" Roland is offering via its ever-expanding line of digital products. This is to say that by combining a VM3100Pro mixer, a V-Studio workstation, and DS90 digital monitors, users gain an all-digital recording, editing, effects processing, and mixing environment that can take them from the first note to the final CD (using the V-Studio's optional CD Recording System), while remaining completely in the digital domain. This removes all possibility of any analog noise or hum and maximizes flexibility thanks to digital editing and storage and instant MIDI control capabilities.

Live performers can also benefit form the VM3100Pro in that it allows instant MIDI-controlled changes in things like mixer channel volume, pan and effects settings. So keyboardists, for example, can instantly adjust the balance on an acoustic guitar microphone or the vocalist's reverb level as quickly and reliably as they change patches on a MIDI synth. Or a guitarist, using a floor-based MIDI foot controller, can instantly boost the level of the entire band for a finale, or raise the level of select instruments for a solo section.

Expansion Possibilities
The VM3100Pro can easily be expanded with the DIFAT Interface Box, which allows direct communication with ADAT and Tascam modular digital multi-track recorders via an onboard RMDB2 I/O terminal. This provides convenient solution for the hundreds of thousands of MDM users who would like to step up to the advantages of all-digital mixing.

Technical Info

Audio
Inputs (total 20): Channel inputs: 12, Digital inputs: 2 (select one), 24-bit digital track inputs: 8

Outputs (total 20): Analog outputs: 8, Digital outputs: 4, 24-bit digital multi-outputs: 8

Bus (total 12): Main (L,R);Aux. send (1,2); Bus out (L,R); Monitor (L,R); Digital outs (L,R) x 2

Other I/O: MIDI (Fader assignable): In, Out/Thru; Footswitch (for Scene select, etc.)

Effects/EQ/Ch. Compressor
Effects: 2 stereo or 4 mono (Reverb, Delay, Guitar/Keyboard/Vocal Multi, RSS, Microphone Simulator, Speaker Modeling, and more

EQ: 20 x 3-band

Ch. Compressor: Compressor 1, 2 (2 mono or 1 stereo)

Others
Fader: 11 x 60mm

Display: 136 x 32-dot + 7-seg backlit graphic LCD

Dimensions: 11-13/16 x 13-1/2 x 3-3/4 in.

Weight: 7 lbs., 15 oz.

Option: DIFAT Interface Box for ADAT/Tascam

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