What NO firewire !!

The capture Range (including the "Octa") appear to all be USB only. For Firewire the existing FA -66 and FA-101 (maybe another I have not mentioned) are still available AFAICT. :-)

It would be nice to see something in between the Octa and Quad Capture. Say two front inputs and two rear inputs (like the Octa only two instead of four) with a couple more outputs. Named what?

EDIT: Never did understand how two inputs equates to four inputs - seems more like a Duo capture to me. Yeah then they could have saved the Quad name for something with four inputs.

Never did understand how two inputs equates to four inputs

It has four inputs when you include the digital ins.

 
 
No firewire but they say:
 
"QUAD-CAPTURE offers incredible stability and industry-leading low-latency USB performance via Roland’s proprietary VS Streaming technology. QUAD-CAPTURE offers incredible stability and industry-leading low-latency USB performance via Roland’s proprietary VS Streaming technology."
 
Does anybody know if this is really better?
I assume this stream audio data between the device and the driver in your daw. I wonder how this passes the USB controller faster than normal.
 

Is this maybe the same protocol as in the VS700?
This also uses USB.

I think Roland Hit a home run with this audio device .. Great Price point , Great driver support , Low latency and good pre's..  I do see the SNR is a little lower than the octo . and the Vs 100.. but nothing my ear's would hear, I suppose .

Looks like a sweet deal for someone just moving into the realm computer music recording

Probably just preloads data of tracks once there's more than one track?  In the second or two you arm for recording and start, it could have all the info it needs for a few minutes and focus on tracking.   I would think there would be some DSP processing handled by the box sort of like the MBox 3s to make them work better but sounds like more of a operating system type read ahead from the description.  Probably wont speed up your Pro Tools but more to work with Sonar X1.  I have both Pro Tools and Cakewalk and Cakewalk is so much faster and less likely to get bogged down via the Eleven Rack it's crazy and it's USB and not even designed to work with Cakewalk specifically.  I imagine X1 has been programmed to allow the streaming to make this unbeatable.

Anyone with the V Studios that use this know how this works?  Am I close?

Zonno


Is this maybe the same protocol as in the VS700?
This also uses USB.

It may very well be but I guess only Roland know for sure. The Quadcapture definitely has VS preamps though.