I have been away from this forum for awhile, so I guess I'm a little out of touch, but I just noticed that neither Sweetwater nor Musician's Friend carry the V-Studio 700. Has it been discontinued? Is it no longer compatible with X2? Thanks, Jonathan

There hasn't been any official word yet, but it seems to look that way. Not sure though. In the meantime, yes Cakewalk is still supporting it and it works with X2, but there are some issues that need to be fixed. There's a list that another user posted over in the V-Studio forum.

Scott

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It makes me pretty mad that I invested so much time and effort (plus a certain amount of money) into this package.

cant say I blame you guys, that package wasn't cheap.
I still like it though, I don't own it, but I would love to own it.
its a great controller.

  That is hugely disappointing. I was excited when the V-Studio 700 came out, because it looked like Roland was trying to take an active interest in Cakewalk. I hope this does not mean they are about to desert ship.

Maybe they have something new coming out.

It's sad when a great product isn't appreciated. I am a very satisfied VS100 user. Poor relation to VS700 I know, but it's great for the individual creative process before the full studio realisation of a project. You could replace the control surface with a touch screen tablet, but that wouldn't have decent mike preamps and phantom power. And I like transport buttons to jump around tracks, and the ability to set markers and bounce around projects without interrupting the flow of ideas. I must be a member of huge potential market that mostly doesn't know about these control surface/interfaces. And the VS100's cheaper than some guitar pedalboards for goodness sakes!! I'm going to keep using mine till it breaks.

I own VS-100 Audio Interface and control surface and it is great, but I realize that more advanced products will come out.  And that more advanced products will come out.  As they always do. I am looking forward  to the next generation control surface for X2 or X3.

I think it's more a case of lot (like me) would rather buy a more generic solution like mackie that isn't solely great in sonar or limited in other DAW's.

the build quality of the stuff I like, but well it's not flexible enough for me to be generic to use elsewhere.. same goes with the yamaha/steiny stuff.

I was very close to picking up V-700 control surface just prior to X2 coming out. I kept an eye on the forum here and was waiting for X2a due to all the problems reported. After X2a and watching the videos for touch I had to really rethink my position.

If Roland is going to drop support I'm sorry to see that come about for the existing user base. That said: the idea of a OS compliant touch screen is so appealing to me on multiple levels that I would really like to go in that direction.

But...RME hasn't issued drivers yet for Win 8 and my backup software will be a bear to uninstall in Win 7...sigh.

So I am rethinking again...in may be the V700.

Regards,