Roland VS1824CD 24-Bit Digital Studio Workstation
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24-bit. 18-tracks.
Overview
Roland is proud to announce the VS-1824CD 24-bit Digital Studio Workstation. Based on the popular Roland VS-1880, the VS-1824CD is a complete tabletop recording studio with 288 Virtual Tracks, 28-channel automated digital mixing and onboard effects - including COSM¬ Guitar Amp and Microphone Modeling, plus a Mastering Tool Kit. And notably, the VS-1824CD model is the first portable V-Studio to offer a built-in high-speed CD-R/RW drive for easy data backup and creation of audio CDs.
Features
Self-contained 24-bit, 18-track digital recording workstation with built-in digital mixing, effects processing, and CD-burning capabilities
10GB hard drive for massive recording time
Built-in CD-RW drive for creating audio CDs and data backup
18-track simultaneous playback, 8-track simultaneous recording with 288 Virtual Tracks
28-channel, fully automated digital mixer (18 tracks + 10 input channels)
Onboard effects including COSM modeling, Mastering Tool Kit, and more
Accepts additional VS8F-2 card for up to 4 stereo/8 mono effects
CD-RW Mastering button with CD Writing Mode for quicker CD burning
New! CD Capture function for importing audio directly from CD
Onboard Auto-Mix function for creating perfect mixes
The VS-1824CD contains all of the features VS-1880 users have come to know and love - and more - at an ultra-affordable price. Users can record as many as 8 tracks at once or play back up to 18 tracks at a time, selected from the 288 Virtual Tracks available in… read more each song. Virtual Tracks are a great place to store alternate takes or solos, and to keep the individual sections of a perfect "comped" vocal performance. The VS-1824's built-in automated mixing is the key to professional mixes, while its scenes can store mixer setups for instantaneous recall.
The VS-1824CD comes standard with a 10GB hard drive specially selected for its ability to deliver trouble-free recording and providing ample space for an album's worth of songs. With the VS-1824CD's built-in CD-R/RW drive, an entire V-Studio system comes in a single portable package. Besides burning audio CDs and backing up project data, the CD-R/RW drive lets users import professionally recorded drum loops and other audio directly from CDs, allowing for fast song construction.
The VS-1824CD ships from the factory with a high-quality stereo effects processor onboard. Reverb, delay, chorus, flanger, dynamics processing, EQ, Voice Transformer, COSM Guitar Amp Modeling, and more are all available, straight out of the box. Roland's COSM Mic modeling can make affordable mics - including the AKG C3000B - sound like some of the most expensive studio mics in the world. An optional VS8F-2 Effects Expansion Board adds even more power to the VS-1824CD, for a total of 4 stereo or 8 mono effects. read less
Features
Self-contained 24-bit, 18-track digital recording workstation with built-in digital mixing, effects processing, and CD-burning capabilities
10GB hard drive for massive recording time
Built-in CD-RW drive for creating audio CDs and data backup
18-track simultaneous playback, 8-track simultaneous recording with 288 Virtual Tracks
28-channel, fully automated digital mixer (18 tracks + 10 input channels)
Onboard effects including COSM modeling, Mastering Tool Kit, and more
Accepts additional VS8F-2 card for up to 4 stereo/8 mono effects
CD-RW Mastering button with CD Writing Mode for quicker CD burning
New! CD Capture function for importing audio directly from CD
Onboard Auto-Mix function for creating perfect mixes
The VS-1824CD contains all of the features VS-1880 users have come to know and love - and more - at an ultra-affordable price. Users can record as many as 8 tracks at once or play back up to 18 tracks at a time, selected from the 288 Virtual Tracks available in… read more each song. Virtual Tracks are a great place to store alternate takes or solos, and to keep the individual sections of a perfect "comped" vocal performance. The VS-1824's built-in automated mixing is the key to professional mixes, while its scenes can store mixer setups for instantaneous recall.
The VS-1824CD comes standard with a 10GB hard drive specially selected for its ability to deliver trouble-free recording and providing ample space for an album's worth of songs. With the VS-1824CD's built-in CD-R/RW drive, an entire V-Studio system comes in a single portable package. Besides burning audio CDs and backing up project data, the CD-R/RW drive lets users import professionally recorded drum loops and other audio directly from CDs, allowing for fast song construction.
The VS-1824CD ships from the factory with a high-quality stereo effects processor onboard. Reverb, delay, chorus, flanger, dynamics processing, EQ, Voice Transformer, COSM Guitar Amp Modeling, and more are all available, straight out of the box. Roland's COSM Mic modeling can make affordable mics - including the AKG C3000B - sound like some of the most expensive studio mics in the world. An optional VS8F-2 Effects Expansion Board adds even more power to the VS-1824CD, for a total of 4 stereo or 8 mono effects. read less
Reviews
Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars.
(105 ratings)
Submitted November 30, 2012 by aaron smith in sunland, CA
"I own one and just love the intuitness of the buttons and menu's."
I think it is the most intuitive brand of all-in-one multitrackers out there. I find the entire VS line both easy to use and very powerful. Within 20 minutes I was able to get into menu's and buttons and learned quickly how to tweak and master the tracks that were recorded. i was even able to tweak the EQ, pan and track levels and effects right away and then save the master audio mix settings. All without even cracking open the manual.
Of course most deeper functions and features must be learned through reading the manual. The VS1824CD is logically laid out and the menu system is very intuitive. And one of the most powerful of the multitrackers out there. Although there are new VS models out now for awhile, this one is a bit more portable than their big brother models. I would suggest learning on this or even the VS1680 and 1880 models too. Which are almost identical.
The only drawback this era of the Roland VS line is no USB connector or wave format transfers to a computer, however you can transfer VS files through Reaper DAW software and have Reaper convert them into wave files. And or use a SCSI drive on a computer to transfer the audio tracks into a computer.
But if yoou want to maintane the VS master stereo mix and VS effects sound, just send it through the VS stereo digital output to a DAT or computer DAW. Or send the individual tracks with effects or not through the analog outputs, analog outs sound good enough.
To me the sound quality is very good, the only thing…
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people complain about are the XLR mic preamps levels supposively being weak, but they really are not, I have personally heard good dynamic vocals recorded on this and without noise.
With most other brands of multitirackers, I find them confusing and unusable until you spend hours with their manual and even still the function menu's and buttons are still clunky and awkward in their setup and use. Although the Fostex VF line is almost as easy to use as the Roland VS line here. The Korg line seems to be the most confusing to me.
The Roland VS1824CD is very capable of producing commercial CD quality albums in this all-in-one easy to use but very powerful multitrack recorder and CD burner.
Musical Background:
35 years, keyboards,drums,bass, jam at home and master mix albums.
Musical Style:
Pink Floydish styles of rock, acid jazz, hip hop, lounge music, sound track, new age and mood music. read less
Musical Background:
35 years, keyboards,drums,bass, jam at home and master mix albums.
Musical Style:
Pink Floydish styles of rock, acid jazz, hip hop, lounge music, sound track, new age and mood music. read less
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