Should I Buy a VS 700?

I've already contacted Roland about drivers for Win 10 and they told me they are on the way and they're just waiting on Roland JP to send them over. They expect it will be when the final release candidate comes out so no worries there.
 
I'll admit I've been looking at other options as far as an interface and controller go but the reality I've come to is that unless I'm going with a larger format controller, there is no need to upgrade because the VS-700c works beautifully. I'm only hoping that the software for it goes open source (I think it has already if I'm not mistaken) and that users who program continue to develop it to work with new versions of Sonar as they come out to take advantage of the changes.
 
Interface wise, I will likely upgrade but keep the 700r as a backup. It's not by any means a bad interface but I'd like to either get an Orion or a UAD interface if the new Intel boards running Skylake have good support for Thunderbolt on PC finally.

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm also wondering what support for the 700c is like in X2? That's what I'm currently running, and what about the newest version of Sonar, any issues with that? 

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Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm also wondering what support for the 700c is like in X2? That's what I'm currently running, and what about the newest version of Sonar, any issues with that? 

Can't really remember when the vs-700 started functioning properly again ... sometime in between X1d and X2a ??? it's been too long with too many versions in between ...
 
Anyway, I used X3e + vs-700 happily for a long and stable period and see similar stability plus some really nice new features with Platinum (mix recall, vocal sync, drum replacer, ...) so there's no real point in sticking with X2 IMHO

As a Control Surface VS-700 C is still the only one with relatively up to date Sonar support. There is no sign that will be changed any time soon. That can be changed only in case CW has an interest, and that in case is possible in case Tascam produce some kind of VS-700 replacement. In the latest questionnaire CW has asked about iPad/Android app only, but not about new HW device.
 
Closest "concurrent" is MCU Pro. But its support in Sonar is frozen many years ago, before X versions.

FreeFlyBertland unfortunately it may stay like this for a while because there is not much happening in the controller hardware market ...

I'm okay with this. I get annoyed when companies put out a new model every other year and then slowly (or quickly in some cases) drop support for older but otherwise perfectly good hardware just because they brought something new out in order to keep pushing surge sales.

I do a lot of in the box work but at the same time, I like having the ability to write with a physical fader as well as having things like mute/solo/record/etc buttons at my fingertips as it does take less time to use on a physical board than with a mouse. Once you get to using it, things like switching views from like track view to console view will be simpler using a console to control it. Control wise it boils down to whether or not you think it's worth having a controller or if you're happy with your workflow now.
 
With the rack, it has some really great quality pres in it. The thing I like the most though is the ability to bring it up to a sample rate of 192khz. Do I use that? No. I max myself at 96 which is becoming a more common standard to use in many studios, but the ability to bring it up further is there so it gives itself more lifetime and relevance. It also has that Roland hardware Fantom synth built in but honestly I've never been able to get the damn thing to work. I know others have but I never gave it enough effort to do.
 
Here's a good article on everything it has: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may09/articles/vstudio700.htm
 
If it's in great condition, 1k is really a steal and the community on here is pretty decent at helping out if you have issues at any point but again, it boils down to how you want to work and if you need a new audio interface or not.