Roland Studio Pack. Does anyone have it?

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Epipaul

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Hello

How good is the studio pack? Please give me some
information about it? Things like ease of use, quality,
the software etc.

Thanks Epi
 
Since I answer this question every week I am politely suggesting you use the search function.

The quality is good. Not that easy to use if your new to mixers, it's actually not that easy if you're very experienced with mixers. The Logic software is not what I would call user friendly either.

But you cant beat it for bang for buck. If you have a decent comp and a lot of patience you will have everything you need to make great sounding recordings.
 
Sorry TEX

But I did search and search and search and search but you
were kind enough to answer it for me and even with an attitude
thanks

Yours truly Epi
 
Attitude is everything, get used to it around here ;) I guess the search is kinda hosed right now. Is there anything specific you want to know?
 
Tex,

Nothing real specific. Just wanted to know if your getting great
quality and if it was easy to use. Your saying it isn't. I thought
the mixer would be great rather than running a mouse for everything. Are the preamps good? And how are the effects?
Again thank you for your time.

Epi
 
I've only used it on some practice sessions so far.

The preamps are marginal. The pots are really wierd and they only give you a significant gain boost at the last 3% of travel so they are VERY sensitive when setting mic levels. They are not all that quiet either. They seem to be fine on condensors but a little noisy on lower level dynamics.

The effects are very clean and impressive at first but I'm having trouble really loving them come mixdown time. I am still tweaking and I can get some very usuable reverbs.

Do not get this system if you are not a manual reader. There is so simply no way to learn the mixer without constantly checking the manual.

I still think it is great bang for the buck and if you know how to record you can get great results. If you are really a pro level engineer there are probably better ways to go but it's still a great deal.

BTW Roland announced a Studio Pack Pro system that will be coming out. It is more of a control surface with a dedicated DSP interface.
 
TexRoadkill is exactly right on each statement. But, I think the manual is very lacking. For example, a BASIC function of any mixer is the ability to adjust the playback loudness levels of existing tracks when you record a new track, right? That is not in the manual. That's total bullshit. The problem is the recording monitor volume of the live overdub is way louder than the playback. This is not good. Why does this happen? Because your playback (on the headphones) of your live recording comes from TWO sources summed, from the track your recording right after the fader PLUS a defaut setting that sends it back through channels 13, 14 (the playback channels). I solved the problem by muting the channels I am recording on and raising the faders to max on the playback channels 13, 14. I never got a straight answer on this on the V-Planet site.
 
Sbax- I finally figured out that one. I was getting these feedback loops that were driving my fucking nuts. I could not understand how on hell it was happening. Then I opened up the RBUS driver and noticed that by default it sends a full monitor mix to the 1/2 output buss!!! I switched it so that 1/2 only sends what is routed to 1/2 same as the other busses and the problem was solved.

I think that is the same problem you were having. It's the RBUS driver not the VM3100.
 
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