Roland VS-2480

[Wildin]

Just copped.

Anyone got one? I bought it off impulse. I really want to get away from digital (PC).

With my mpc 4000, synth, keyboard, guitars....I think I'm pretty much good. Last piece of gear im gonna cop is a sp-404. I could get it now but they ain't going nowhere and to be honest I don't even have the time to be using them heavy, I'm just planning for my rainy days.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

This is by far the greatest machine ever that didn't need a computer. I had 2 and still searching for another one. The last one I bought I had to get a refund because I asked that scamming mfer if it had static in the channels and he said it didn't. The first thing I heard when I powered it on was static in the channels. That's the problem with this machine. Once it gets static in the channels, it fukks up the recordings. It's an easy fix if you know how to do it, but I don't. I'm still searching for another one. The midi features on this with the motorized faders is great. Plus the effects are top notch.

 

[Wildin]

This is by far the greatest machine ever that didn't need a computer. I had 2 and still searching for another one. The last one I bought I had to get a refund because I asked that scamming mfer if it had static in the channels and he said it didn't. The first thing I heard when I powered it on was static in the channels. That's the problem with this machine. Once it gets static in the channels, it fukks up the recordings. It's an easy fix if you know how to do it, but I don't. I'm still searching for another one. The midi features on this with the motorized faders is great. Plus the effects are top notch.

Ok....good info. I'll have to check if I have static. I'll be on my Googles for info on the fixes. I did some searches in not finding any large forums or any big sources of info on this machine. Like when I copped an mpc back in 02 there's the moc forum and it's huge. Pretty much all the users, any info you want and need is there.

Since your a seasoned user you have any sites or sources I can bookmark?

I'm real interested to see what I can do just by plugging my guitar in and working with it. Then I gotta figure out what to do with the mpc plugged into it.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

VS-2480 - Dedicated to Frank Griffith - VS-Planet Forums

A support resource and community for Roland V-Studio users and home recording enthusiasts. Includes a message board, musician pages, a radio show, newsletter, and a store selling competitively priced music-related gear and software.

www.vsplanet.com

 

[Wildin]

VS-2480 - Dedicated to Frank Griffith - VS-Planet Forums

A support resource and community for Roland V-Studio users and home recording enthusiasts. Includes a message board, musician pages, a radio show, newsletter, and a store selling competitively priced music-related gear and software.

www.vsplanet.com

I found that this morning downloaded and read through all the packages. Been doing mad research til it gets here.

 

[MurderToCassette]

Heard nothing but good things about these. I got two MV 8800's that I love, they can record 8 audio tracks and I've read they share a lot in common.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Heard nothing but good things about these. I got two MV 8800's that I love, they can record 8 audio tracks and I've read they share a lot in common.

I have an 8800 as well. An MV 8800 is basically an mpc 4000 and vs2480 all in one. The only thing is that you're restricted to recorded one track at a time in the 8800 whereas the 2480 can record 16 tracks simultaneously.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

I finally found one and it works!!!

 

[Whatupdoe?]

Curious, why you trying to move away from the PC?


I had something similar back in the day the Korg D8. Man, I had the Hard Drive crap out on me and that was it for me.

 

[Wildin]

Curious, why you trying to move away from the PC?

I think a PC cramps music style. Don't get me wrong. It's dope for loading different sound packages and such when you want different drums or want to play different keyboards/pianos.

There's a lot of creativity just sitting down at a live drum set, or having a guitar in your hands, or any instrument (saxophone, trumpet). And when you have that room to explore and aren't chained to a computer you can discover different elements that aren't computer generated.

It's one thing to play something dope, do it into a daw and manipulate it or copy and paste it.

But I think more creators today are starting with the daw and creating off the effects rather than actual instrumentation.

I just want to make music and when I'm ready, plug in to an amp, record then do final touches and such there.

 

[Wildin]

I finally found one and it works!!!

Hopefully you have better luck than I am having. Mine works, but it's not panning out to be what I thought it was going to be. But I still have a long way to go before I figure out it's intended purpose and what I'm looking to do with it and if there's commonality or if I shouldn't have bought this device.

I can pretty much track out to my computer after mastering on the device. This might be too much machine for what I want. Its dope though.

 

[Whatupdoe?]

But I think more creators today are starting with the daw and creating off the effects rather than actual instrumentation.

Great point I see this a lot on Youtube beat vids.

I'm more of a sampler myself. I play keys (started with a ASR10) just enough to get what I need to get out of them.
So the PC with a midi controller is like a musical playground to me.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Hopefully you have better luck than I am having. Mine works, but it's not panning out to be what I thought it was going to be. But I still have a long way to go before I figure out it's intended purpose and what I'm looking to do with it and if there's commonality or if I shouldn't have bought this device.

I can pretty much track out to my computer after mastering on the device. This might be too much machine for what I want. Its dope though.

That's fair. I have multiple computers in the home, but I don't even know where to begin in making music with a DAW. I have 2 desktops used for business, a brand new M4 apple macbook tricked out that my wife bought me and I only use that for going live on Youtube boxing panels. I make all of my music in drum machines. I have 7 classic drum machines ranging from the 60, 3000, 2kxl, SP 1200(original, not the Rossum), and X. I make the beats int he drum machine and track them out in outboard gear. I can export to wav if needed, but I've just never learned the DAW thing and I'm KNOW it would make my life easier, but I don't want easy. I want the limitations. I never upgraded the 3000 from the 3.5 floppy. I figure if I can't fit each beat on a 3.5, then I'm doing too much.

 

[Wildin]

That's fair. I have multiple computers in the home, but I don't even know where to begin in making music with a DAW. I have 2 desktops used for business, a brand new M4 apple macbook tricked out that my wife bought me and I only use that for going live on Youtube boxing panels. I make all of my music in drum machines. I have 7 classic drum machines ranging from the 60, 3000, 2kxl, SP 1200(original, not the Rossum), and X. I make the beats int he drum machine and track them out in outboard gear. I can export to wav if needed, but I've just never learned the DAW thing and I'm KNOW it would make my life easier, but I don't want easy. I want the limitations. I never upgraded the 3000 from the 3.5 floppy. I figure if I can't fit each beat on a 3.5, then I'm doing too much.

The limitations are what forces you to become creative.

People never really master a tool because they never reach the limitations, they always have more, they always get stuck and have an alternative or something better, more useful.

I started with the mpc 2000, then then the 2kxl, then copped the 4000. Did all the lil upgrades myself.

Went through the manual line by line, did everything on the machines....once you learn that...the daws are the same you just have to learn how to get it to do what you want on the daw. Essentially all workstations are the same, just different limitations like the Roland w-30 (). You just have to learn how to do it on those machines.