I am using the ones from the installation.

I was actually employed by Roland here in Australia to promote the V Studio system here in Melbourne but at a certain point the product was just dropped here in Australia and disappeared off the face the earth here. No explanation from Roland was given either which is a little rude actually as I was putting a fair bit of effort into learning it and also learning how to demonstrate it. I must say that I did receive some rather excellent training from Roland on doing clinics though which will prove useful one day in some other context. 

To be honest I am actually very relieved I did not sell heaps of them here as I would be a bit red faced now so to speak. There would be a lot of very unhappy and angry owners if that was the case.

Zo I would not be recommending the product to anyone. I have had countless enquiries about it and told people to not go ahead due to the vague information we actually have about it and the fact that no one will really own up and tell us what is going on.

If they intend to fully support and update it etc then they need to say so otherwise assume the product is dead in the water and will be or is phased out already. I was interested to see at the NAMM show earlier this year and last there was not one V700 system in sight on the Roland stand  anywhere so that should tell you something.

It was a fantastic idea but very expensive here in Australia and that put a lot of people off. I also loved the sound of the VS700R as well but that seems to be replaced with OctaCapture now.  Hey I could be very wrong and Roland may have plans to revive and update this and they may be busy with other things right now. I just wish if that was the case we could get some honest feedback from them on this.  

When I was using the system here in my studio in the end I found the main things that I was using the VS700C for were the transport controls and using the faders to control busses during a mixdown and for those purposes the console is excellent and obviously it will still operate that way in X2 so from that point of view it is still a good thing. As a synth composer I really liked Phantom and used it quite a bit but that is easily replaced with a VST now.

I think it's great, but I think it was over-specced and accordingly too expensive. The Fantom and the V-Link integration are both wholly unnecessary features.

@ John T Are you finding the Knobs on the VS are matching up with the knobs on the pro channel ?

Hate to sound so negative in every post lately but I don't think Roland has ever revived anything (maybe I'm wrong). Silence is usually the way they do things and we who have forked out sooo much doe ray me get screwed. creek creek creek, nobody official has anything to say.

Yet at the same time, it is included in the X2 software and listed as having improved functionality. While the VS700 is not getting the new product extended sales pitch any more, there have been updates to newer versions of Sonar including X2. While it's apparent that the V700R is not the newest most touted interface, the V700C is still a viable control surface, most suited to Sonar. Both peices of the VS700 system were much needed improvements to the Sonar DAW host. The endless wailing of users who wanted no Fantom Synth, more input/output, this and that, clearly had an influence on design progression, as well as sales numbers I'm sure. I can't say what the bean counters and corporate heads will decide, but I'm sure the inventors and conceivers have things in mind. You can't base what's in the making totally on sales figures from a specific region. It would simply be bad business to obsoless a controll surface designed for your DAW software.  

Norrie: I confess I've not looked into that yet (the controller mapping stuff). I'll get back to you on this in the next day or two, as schedules allow.

Jeffs , the craziest thing is that even guyz from Roland don't have infos !!!

The VS 700 C is the best controller at 2000 E ....

gonna have for one week a nucleus .....to check ..but i already know that drivers and plugins integration will no be as good as the VS ...

the big plus : 16 faders , built quality , multi daw support , inteface integrated (hope less noisy than the vs 700r !)

I'm testing it for students but this might be a plan B if nothing around the corner ....a VS 800 is my dream :

16 faders , good meterings ect ...

Hi Zo. Just watch out with the Nucleus. It gets hot and I mean hot. Feel the rear panel (heatsink) after a few hours of it being on and see what I mean. It can actually heat up an already hot room making it more uncomfortable than without it being on.

There is a serious power supply design problem IMO. When something gets as hot as this thing does it makes you wonder why. It means something is working overtime!

It is good for controlling Pro Tools and maybe Logic but that is about it. Not sure how it would go with Sonar though. Let us know how it goes.