Does anyone have one yet?

Where are you located? You can see the list of VS-700 dealers here. Within the next few weeks we will be announcing tour dates and locations.

YEP. just got one.
Totally awesome...
Fits like a glove.
I've owned the Tascam FW-1884, Mixed Logic 24, and I'll tell ya right now, It can't be beat. It's AWESOME.

The Mic Pre's are really quiet.
The Software interface is Great.
Automation works like a charm. Touch sensitive fadders.

Street price $3600.00 and I haven't sent in my $200 rebate yet.


Don't do like me though. I loaded the drivers for the VS-700 and was so excited I forgot to load the software and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work. Hee Hee
You gotta load both.

Great job CAKE.
I'm totally pleased.

ORIGINAL: GuyPicks

YEP. just got one.
Totally awesome...
Fits like a glove.
I've owned the Tascam FW-1884, Mixed Logic 24, and I'll tell ya right now, It can't be beat. It's AWESOME.

The Mic Pre's are really quiet.
The Software interface is Great.
Automation works like a charm. Touch sensitive fadders.

Street price $3600.00 and I haven't sent in my $200 rebate yet.


Don't do like me though. I loaded the drivers for the VS-700 and was so excited I forgot to load the software and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work. Hee Hee
You gotta load both.

Great job CAKE.
I'm totally pleased.

pics pics pics pics

first review too

YEP. just got one.
Totally awesome...
Fits like a glove.
I've owned the Tascam FW-1884, Mixed Logic 24, and I'll tell ya right now, It can't be beat. It's AWESOME.

The Mic Pre's are really quiet.
The Software interface is Great.
Automation works like a charm. Touch sensitive fadders.

Street price $3600.00 and I haven't sent in my $200 rebate yet.


Don't do like me though. I loaded the drivers for the VS-700 and was so excited I forgot to load the software and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work. Hee Hee
You gotta load both.

Great job CAKE.
I'm totally pleased.

Hey GuyPicks,

I am just curious, where did you get it from ? I see you are in Akron, OH, I've lived there for 2 years some time back and the only reasonable music store that comes to my mind is Lentine's. Is this where you got it ? Did you have to bargain to get $3600 or was it just offered to you at this price.

I am asking because I am seriously considering getting this thing and I like the sound of $3600 better than $4200 !

Anyway, congrats on your purchase and hopefully you will keep us posted on your impressions.

Oh, and hello to all the fellow Sonar users, I guess this is my first post on the Forums !

DK

This is just a temporary setup.
I'm having a custom console made.
As soon as I get the studio all setup I'll post more pics.
I had to really SWEET talk to get this price. Can't tell you where but I almost gave it away.
$3600 is a lot of money for me but I sold a lot of equipment and had a piggy bank set aside every since I heard they were coming out with this board.
I just knew it would be a hit for me.
I've used it all week now without any problems whatsoever.

Here's some shots of my studio.
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ORIGINAL: bapu

As a current FW-1884 owner, I'm interested in how well it plays your largest projects.
Hope you will post some results soon.

I had the Tascam FW-1884 for about 2 1/2 years and it had the pre-amp modification in it. Great board but doesn't hold a candle to the VS-700 as far as function with the Sonar software. You're aware of the Tascam holdbacks.
I couldn't say the VS sounds better without a side by side comparison.
I do know the tascam projects I have, sound great on the VS if that's worth anything.
That being said and being a former FW-1884 user, get out there and get this thang. V-Studio 700 that is.

I hope it stays working like it is now for years to come. Fingers crossed.

Hey am I the first to get one here in the forum?
I bought it 02-04-09 and it arrived 02-05-09.

Thks for the pics and for sharing !!

I have one too...I'm reviewing the V-700 for Keyboard magazine. I am definitely buying one, I figure with the amount of time it saves me, it will pay for itself in six months to a year.

The controller is great. Something unexpected: How much better ACT is when brought out to a dedicated set of controls. The approach I'm taking with it is to basically forget about the existing assignments, and use "learn" to learn controls I need to use at that time. For example, if I'm tweaking a filter/envelope combination, I just have it learn those until I need them to learn something else.

The other surprises are the interface and Fantom. The interface mic pres sound really good, or perhaps more properly, don't have a sound which to me, means it sounds good. I have a "color" preamps I can patch in; what I want in an interface is a straight-wire-with-gain. I also like that you can digitally control the gain, so I basically just leave everything plugged in, ready to go, and with levels adjusted.

The Fantom sounds remarkably good. You can use up the 128 voices pretty fast with complex patches, because one note can play up to eight voices; but hardware can't have unlimited voices. I've already created a "new" template with six Fantom instruments instantiated - great for getting ideas down. Probably the best thing about the Fantom is you can use it as a scratchpad but if a track is a "keeper," you don't need to change to a "better" sound. And as a guitar player, it's great because I can have a lot of instrument tracks going on without loading down the CPU. This lets me keep the latency way down to get the best real-time feel for guitar. There is a limitation in that you have to do any Fantom bounces in real time, but that's not a deal-breaker.

I could go on but I need to get back to the review.

I think production models are still relatively rare. I think the fact that I'm covering it for several media, as well as buying it, helped in my arm-twisting efforts :)

ORIGINAL: Anderton

I think production models are still relatively rare. I think the fact that I'm covering it for several media, as well as buying it, helped in my arm-twisting efforts :)

NO! Don't take my dreams away from me!










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hello everyone..please bear with me..
When news broke that roland/cakewalk are gonna come up with some hardware, I actually thought it would be independant/standalone hardware with cakewalk "poured into" it. I remember reading once that manufacturers actually knew the cost of making a mixer and a multitrack recorder would be roughly the same the same. Just inagine, a high end roland multi GB hard disk recorder incorporating very good preamps and convertors with VGA out that translates as cakewalk Sonar (X) on the monitor screen. No need to look elsewhere for convertors(at last for those who could be pleased quite easily),audiocards or whatever prepherals associated with making audio tracks...One stop for all hardware and software queries..Hopefully yes hopefully one day.....

Oh, I should also add the LCD parameter display is two-line - there's not just the label at the top, but the lower line shows the parameter value (e.g., 26%).

VS with automap : heaven !!! please cake think about it with novation before others will !!!