VS-890 questions for a complete newbie

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Hi all and hope you can help.

Problems:

In the process of building a new computer... Hubby just bought the VS-890 and wants it to have access to the new puter once it's built, and I have no knowledge really of what is needed to do this and neither does he as this is his first attempt at recording.

I don't want to buy the Roland cdr. It's just way toooooo expensive and I was wondering if there is another alternative to Roland's cdr. Perhaps a compatible scsi HD? Then I would need to purchase a SCSI card for the computer. Would this work since I already have a CD RW? He could record to the HD, then I could burn it to the CD.

If this is not possible, does anyone else have any suggestions of how I should handle this? If I need to pruchase another CD-R, what brand is compatible with the VS-890 and how then would I be able to connect to the computer? Or can I just use some kind of sound card and go that route somehow?

As you can see I really do not have the kind of knowledge really needed to answer my own questions, even though I have researched this subject to a certain point. I could not really find that much information about any of this concerning the VS-890.
Especially compatibility issues.

I hope someone can help me.

Thanks ever so much, especially since I am "flying" in the dark here.
 
Roland Backup

I don't know if this will help, but check the roland website (WWW.Rolandus.com) look under support they have information on back up hard drives as a matter of fact, there is a SCSI hard drive called ORB and you can get a 2gig SCSI hard drive for about $200.00 I dont know if that will help, but try that out or goto www.8thstreetmusic.com they have the Roland VSCDRII for alot cheaper then other stores.

Peace
 
Don't know if this falls withing the 890 haveing "access" to the PC, but if price is a consideration, all you really need to start out with only a halfway decent soundcard. That way you can record the final mix out of the 890 as a wav file on the PC. Then you can use the software that came with your CD-R to burn the audio CD. Again, this is a viable alternative if price is a factor. There are better alternatives and *possibly* some tricks for exporting the mix into a file on the 890 and transfering it to the PC, direct hookups, or the like.

Matt
 
A few Ideas

I own the VS-880. I upgraded to computer using Cakewalk Pro Audio and Echo Layla Sound Card. If you are looking to store your songs in a less expensive way. You can purchase a sound card with digital Input/Output (coaxial Type). Echo has some decent sound cards. www.echoaudio.com Simply connect the digital out of your 890 to the digital in of your computer sound card.

I began telling you about my upgrade because what you are attempting to do is twice the work and twice the expense. You could have simply built your computer added a good sound card and purchased good recording software suchas Cakewalk or Cubase. You would not have to purchase scsi cards. You can use ide harddrives. You already have a cdrw. Very nice set up.

I kept my VS-880 to go and record on location but, if you are going to record at home maybe you can get your money back for the VS-890.

Here is a good website for VS recorders...

www.vsplanet.com
 
Yeah. VSPlanet is an excellent resource.

Btw, I've had the VS-880 for over four years and also have Cakewalk and Cubase. IMHO, I still prefer the VS-880 for recording.
 
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