Tapehead
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Well I actually got to play with a VS1680 over the last few days. My neighbor has temporary use of one so we played with it and actually got a pretty decent result out of it. We'll post it up here in the next week or two and of course would welcome feedback.
But lordy the thing is not clear to operate. I pity anyone who has no recording experience or knowledge and ends up with one of these on his fish-cutting bench. The documentation is very poor--hard to find anything. Lots of non-standard recording terminology. Lousy index. Poor graphics. C'mon Roland get with it.
Also, one thing that seemed odd--for a 24 bit processor there sure isn't a lot of headroom in the channel paths. Pretty easy to clip. Also, a moody machine. Works better on Monday than Friday.
The effects that I played with were good--nice clean, full reverbs. I'd keep those. And very highly editable. Fully parametric EQs are also a very nice feature on a device at this price. There is no need for a recording to sound brittle or bright if the humanoid at the business end of the mixer knows his E's and Q's.
The Roland engineers could learn a lot from Line6 Engineers: the more you can connect with familiar (analog) interface principles (at least for the next few years while we make the transition) the better. I think.
But lordy the thing is not clear to operate. I pity anyone who has no recording experience or knowledge and ends up with one of these on his fish-cutting bench. The documentation is very poor--hard to find anything. Lots of non-standard recording terminology. Lousy index. Poor graphics. C'mon Roland get with it.
Also, one thing that seemed odd--for a 24 bit processor there sure isn't a lot of headroom in the channel paths. Pretty easy to clip. Also, a moody machine. Works better on Monday than Friday.
The effects that I played with were good--nice clean, full reverbs. I'd keep those. And very highly editable. Fully parametric EQs are also a very nice feature on a device at this price. There is no need for a recording to sound brittle or bright if the humanoid at the business end of the mixer knows his E's and Q's.
The Roland engineers could learn a lot from Line6 Engineers: the more you can connect with familiar (analog) interface principles (at least for the next few years while we make the transition) the better. I think.
