Roland VS-20 Audio Interface

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• Get high-quality recordings with a stereo audio interface.
• Compact, portable, and USB bus powered-perfect for mobile recording. Control your mix and playback with real faders, knobs, and buttons.
• Incredible tones from zero latency, hardware COSM DSP effects with software control. Includes connections for monitors, headphones, pedals, and footswitches.

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The closest thing I have ever seen to this is a USB box I used about a decade ago called the Edirol UA-100 (also Roland). Like the V-Studio 20, the UA-100 allowed you to add effects to your guitar or vocals and, although not exactly like COSM, the UA-100 had great effects, especially for its time. Surprisingly, the older UA-100 set up an expectation for better reamping possibilities than the 12 year younger V-Studio 20 could deliver, and that was my only disappointment with this unit. I like to record my signal dry to the DAW while monitoring with effects, so that I can have complete flexibilty to change that sound later. The V-Studio 20 allows this, but unlike the UA-100, you cannot monitor the guitar mix, while reamping, without hearing the guitar effect applied to all the other tracks. Therefore, if you are using ONLY this unit with your DAW, you must mute the rest of the mix (or solo the reamped guitar signal) to apply an effect to a previously recorded clean guitar track. Easy enough to do but NOT conducive to making context-related decisions during mixdown. I solved this problem by using my FA-66 Firewire box as a monitor for the main mix (using the WDM/KS drivers with SONAR, as ASIO does not allow multiple soundcards at once) and running the headphone output of the V-Studio 20 into the left and right inputs of the FA-66. To me, this kind of sucks that I have to do this, but it is working flawlessly with no timing issues. Now, FOR MOST PEOPLE, this probably won't be an issue, as most guitarists I know like to record by printing the effects to the final recording immediately. But if you are a reamping freak who likes to audition different guitar sounds in the context of a mix, you better be sure to have another sound card to monitor the other tracks in your DAW. Other than this personal nag, I really love this unit. The effects sound great, it works flawlessly with SONAR, it looks good, feels durable and is quite flexible.

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Drivers for Windows 7 64Bits shows many problems, even though the VS20 is a great tool, good recording quality and makes the recording process really friendly.

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I've used this with both my WinXP machine (Guitar Tracks, Sonar Home Studio 7, AND Sonar X1) and my OSX Lion machine with ZERO problems. The FX launch button doesn't work on Mac but this is a tiny gripe. The FX panel works as an app and plug-in on Mac in Logic and Garageband. The audio quality is good though the pre's don't have a lot of gain. Compact, sturdy, useful.

Possibly a tiny bit overpriced considering what it does but a fantastic item regardless. I love mine.

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Outstanding device for guitar/bass/mic/aux and anything else with Sonar X1/X2 computer/interface needs. I highly recommend this unit. Very easy to use and it makes life easy for the home studio recording star.

i tried the product in my mac , but it did nor recognize it , and the cakewalk software was not able tu run in mac platform .....

i am very dissapointed ......