I wish everybody would take a breath and let things happen. Panic! Panic! Comeon, beleive me I'll be one pissed mother****** from Vegas if Roland cuts the VS700 system.

LOL Craig it took me a while but I had the vs 880, the 1680, the 2480 and guess what every single one came with the same fate. I like your optimism though and I hope you're the one laughing and saying "SEEEEE" lol

  Someone should call and see if it's still available, i bet it's not. quote didn't work call sweetwater and B&H

dahjah


LOL Craig it took me a while but I had the vs 880, the 1680, the 2480 and guess what every single one came with the same fate. I like your optimism though and I hope you're the one laughing and saying "SEEEEE" lol

Yuh buddy.
 

Roland released a long list of audio/midi drivers for Windows 8 (32bit and 64 bit) for many of their products today. However no new drives for any of the VS Series products. Good news if you own a Roland Octa or UA audio device.

dahjah


  Someone should call and see if it's still available, i bet it's not. quote didn't work call sweetwater and B&H

if available means still being sold then it the answer is no ... at least in Europe. the biggest central European music store stopped selling it sometime last spring. my system was actually the last one sold here in Austria, which was a display unit that i got in May for a real good discount. hence, i'm not complaining too badly about some features not being functional ... but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want it to be fixed ... 
 

@Bert it is still available in the UK the Roland Planet shops still have it for sale.

dahjah


LOL Craig it took me a while but I had the vs 880, the 1680, the 2480 and guess what every single one came with the same fate. I like your optimism though and I hope you're the one laughing and saying "SEEEEE" lol

 
 
dahjah, I owned the 880, 1680 & 2480 too, and they all had basically solid OS. So I don't see what your talking about when you say they all came with the same fate.
 
Your pessimism is quite depressing.
 
Luckily i listen to roland reps instead of spectators, otheriwise I might feel as pessimistic as you do, but I don't. I spoke to a Roland rep yesterday, and he said the VS 700,20,100 Windows 8 drivers are on the way. Cakewalk rep said they're working on fixing all the bugs they can indentify, so for me personally I see progress in  trying to get things resolved.

I was sayin' that they were all discontinued and support stopped. And by looking at the history of Roland if this is discontinued then... Believe me I hope I'm wrong but I haven't seen this leopard change its spots.

I agree with Craig and kday - this forum could definitely use some optimism! 

Cake has done a great job putting together a nice piece of software that's pretty stable (since X1c), got loads of cool features and is very intuitive to use. They probably re-developed most of the DAW for X1, which is a dangerous thing to do with an established software and a large user base. I once went down with a company that did likewise, but never got out of troubles following the release of the 'new' product ...

I was reluctant to go for X2, expecting similar troubles and update frequency as with X1, but it's been good from day one. In terms of control surfaces they yet have to do their homework, and I keep my fingers crossed that they will do it. Apparently no CS works any better with Sonar than the VS700 (MCU has also a long list of similar problems), and according to posts in this forum no other DAW (except evil PT) has decent CS support, so providing that will give Cake another advantage over the competition ... If usability is key, X2 is spot on. Decent CS support will add to that and I think it'll come ...

I came in late into the VS-700, don't regret it and still believe in it. There aren't many options anyway, between toy gadgets and priceless zillion dollar digital mixing desks ...