V Studio 700 .... seriously .... is development of this thing done ?

I don't know why you're so concerned about the drivers not being "brand new". They work so why issue new ones? There have been some hints at new firmware and software updates for the VS 700 system. In reality a lot of people don't post in the forum. You have to remember the economy crashed right around the time this system came out. I'm sure sales have suffered. It is a high quality solid unit, while many have questioned it's build and attributes and stated they would want more inputs-functions etc. It is a good solution to building a small studio, or as use for a mixing-editing-mastering station in a larger studio.
I love mine and I'm glad I bought it. People will make up their own minds I guess.

The V Studio system was quite a few years in development before released and as a result it ended up being full of lots of great features and it all worked well with Sonar.  A lot of things were sorted out and that is the reason it works so well.  As you do not own it timboe it is hard to appreciate it. If you used it for 6 months you would change your mind. It is one of those well thought out and well developed products before release. Even if it did not change at all from now it still represents great value and use.

The control surface is one of the most highly integrated pieces of hardware into a software program there is around.

Crg is also correct. The drivers work so leave em be. The interface is also very high quality. Mic Pres are very very very nice to record through and all the A to D and D to A is also excellent and sounds great.

Fantom is great and integrates fine and sounds terrific. With a few simple steps Fantom parts can be frozen, converted into audio and receive full production on each of its 16 multi timbral parts. It is never a bad thing to have a full blown Roland synthesiser just lying around waiting to be used. And it sounds great inconjunction with all the virtual synths inside Sonar.

It takes you back into an analog world of faders, knobs and buttons, transport etc. It seems to make the operation of music production less technical and more intuitive and this results in making better music, faster with the technology slipping back out of the way more. Can you put a price on that? Just riding faders on tracks and busses in mixdown is a nice thing to do.

Maybe the reason why V studio people are not posting much is because they spend all their time operating it instead! It becomes addicitive after a while. You guys are lucky, it is cheap in the US and worth every cent.

I don't know what to tell you Timboe. The VS 700 has many layers of ability. I'm certainly no studio engineer and I doubt if I've  cracked even half of the abilities of the VS 700. I bought it because it was time to expand my little home studio and the VS 700 was the best choice. I went from a 8 channel DAW to a 16 channel DAW with more options and a great Hardware Synth which allowed me to do things I couldn't before. This is a system a beginner can begin using to get tracks down and learn a whole lot more about the whole process of making a finished work. 

Not sure what else you would want them to release.... this product just works and I'm sure the future releases will be refinements and improvements. The only people not looking for what isn't there are the ones who have the system I guess.

I've just gotten the 700R (already had the 700C) and am in the throes of getting it all up and running and so far it looks to be good. Only the 700R reboot for sample rate change that seems odd in this day and age.

Cheers.

Yeah I feel that... I found it easier to replug the USB at the PC and all comes good (for the 700R). Must add though that this is after rebooting unit etc trying to resolve the sample rate side of things. I've got that sussed now so will be keen to see if I still have any lack of USB connection issues.
 
Did think it was odd to have the controller operate (without LCD data) and no USB connection light... using W7 64bit.
 
More specific to your comments as they regard the 700C, I didn't ever have any need to reinstall the drivers to get it to work. I'd try replugging the USB for this too so the poota sees the connection again... it should come up fine.
 
Cheers.

Crg


I don't know why you're so concerned about the drivers not being "brand new". They work so why issue new ones? There have been some hints at new firmware and software updates for the VS 700 system. In reality a lot of people don't post in the forum. You have to remember the economy crashed right around the time this system came out. I'm sure sales have suffered. It is a high quality solid unit, while many have questioned it's build and attributes and stated they would want more inputs-functions etc. It is a good solution to building a small studio, or as use for a mixing-editing-mastering station in a larger studio.
I love mine and I'm glad I bought it. People will make up their own minds I guess.

I agree, I love mine and I'm glad I bought it!
My only issues were Windows 7 32/64 bit. I built a 64bit PC but then I read that 32bit was more stable and worked just as well.  I installed 32bit and it worked fine. Initially I couldn't get the Fantom synth to work, until I did a weird thing. I ran Sonar 8.0, and the synth worked. Then I ran Sonar 8.5 and the synth still worked.
Then the trouble started.  I wanted to run Premiere Pro CS5 for my video production.  It is available only in 64bit, so I installed everything to a 64bit system.  Sonar 8.5 didn't like it, I had latency problems and the Fantom synth wouldn't work at all.  I spent HOURS messing with it.
Finally I re-ghosted my configured 32bit image back again and installed a dual-boot 64bit system for Premiere on another HDD.
That works fine and everybody is happy!

Nooooooooo

My last rig (some time ago :-) was a Roland VS1680 synchronised to a PC with a Soundblaster card, running Sonar 1.5.
Every time I switched it on it took me half an hour to configure it, what with MTC going one way and MMC going the other way.
By the time I got it working I would have forgotten what I wanted to do!

The VS700 looked so nice because it was all integrated and it's true that I can pretty much turn it on and get down to business.
Also I am delighted that I got my Korg M3 workstation to run as a VST plugin. I now have so many sounds to hand I don't know what to do with them all..

And I'm happy with the dual-boot solution... for the moment.   Using a separate HDD for each OS means I can backup one OS to the other HDD and vice-versa, using WinPE and Ghost32.

Cool smoke ring...

I couldn't tell you the answer to that one as I've never used the VS700 or the Fantom in such a setup. I assume you're using compatibility mode in Win 7?

but it's still better latency then what I had before the VS-700

Regards,

Marek Rosinski

Yeah, well after I had installed Sonar 64bit on a 64bit system, and Fantom didn't work and the latency was terrible, I uninstalled and reinstalled Sonar 32bit on Windows 7 64bit.  I still couldn't get Fantom to work, so I gave up and went back to 32bit Sonar 32bit Windows 7. It all works fine and it's stable and I have no latency issues...  time to make music!!!

Have you tried adjusting the latency in the V700R ASIO panel?

Mully


Craig is there a dedicated panel for the 700R? I only know of the 'normal' one with the slider etc... hope this makes sense.

Thanks.

That's the one. It's dedicated to only the V700R. I had nearly the same specs in latency when I started the beast up. Sliding the the slider to the left works really well.

They sent out a survey on the VS700 so development must be ongoing. There are a lot of different concepts about the V 700 R and C, for example that indicate a wide variety work needs and uses. Some people want a larger number of tracks and touch controls in different places and additional touch controls in an order that makes sense to them. Some want the Fantom Synth gone. Some want the V700C to work like their old unit, whatever it was. Etc, etc and so on.
Personally I look at the VS700 system as a hardware-software interfaced system with the ability to be a straight up interface or the interface for one of the best Synths (The Fantom) I've seen yet. Many want the full capabilitys of the Fantom plus the full capabilitys of the interface at the same time. So how do you size that in relation to a number of different needs? Which leads to a confusing problem inherent in all the products out there. Eventually you hit the limit of the machines capabilitys and you have a concept in mind you want to create but you've hit the limit and now you want more to expand into your concept instead of doing a work around to accomadate the limit of the machine. I don't have the answer.

Smoochy how ya been? I agree. There are short comings between all of the DAW software entitys and the OS is the biggest one. Industrial secrets and the problems they cause. Everybody is fighting for that nickel. Fighting for dominance of the market. You want this? Give us this share! We are now the ruling proprietary DAW software! Until next week when another genius gains dominance through manipulation of code and command.

I agree with a couple of posts that basically say "if it aint broke, don't fix it".  I'm a VS700 owner and yes I occassionaly have some issues.  But not unlike anything else I've ever used- RME, Presonus, Mackie, Tascam, etc.  Aside from 'issues' I'm loving what's coming out of the monitors!  The AD/DA is superb!  The mic pres are very sweet!  All of my clients love what they hear! 

So metaphorically speaking, the proof is in the pudding.