How do I use a drum VST with a Roland VS-2480?

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Possum Bobby

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I am returning to home recording after a 15-year absence. In the past, I used a drum machine as a metronome, then replaced the drum machine track with live drums, which I played. This has some obvious drawbacks. For one, the drums should come first, not later. And then there is the issue of the drummer's skill.
I record on a Roland VS-2480. Old school, but I know how to operate it. How can I incorporate the new VSTs into the Roland VS-2480?
 
I doubt you can run a VST on the Roland any more than you could run MS Word on an IBM Selectric typewriter. VSTs are written to run under a particular operating environment. Windows VSTs won't even run under Linux natively. The Roland has a proprietary operating system, far removed from Windows. It doesn't even store audio in standard WAV format

What you could do is load a drum VST like Easydrummer or MT PowerDrumKit into a DAW, and once you get it programmed, export it as a WAV file and then import that into your VS project. Or you could just feed the audio output of the computer into the VS, although you would probably want to use an audio interface output rather than trying to use the headphone outputs on most computers.

Or you could try using something like an Alesis SR16 or SR18 and feeding that to the VS inputs. I did that with my old Yamaha AW machines. I would literally "play" the drum machine while building a rough guide track and build from there.
 
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