I just received a VS-1680 as a gift. I have been recoding, and producing for many years. This particular system, though "obsolete", i.e. discontinued, it is a great system. For a sample of the sounds you can get, please see my video, "ANCESTRAL" on my channel. The song was recorded, mixed, and mastered with the VS-1680, and the quality is amazing. I've been having great troubles figuring the system out... and being a woman, the tears of frustration fell like rain! LOL.Mukesh, you are a great teacher. Thank you!
Thanks Taina. I fully agree that vs 1680 has amazing sound recording quality. You can download all 4 of my vs1680 videos for future ref. cheers, Mukesh
I sold mine 14 years ago and used the money to get a weighted-key midi controller keyboard. Best decision I could have made. It was a beast in it’s time though.
So this is the way to go.THERE are so many other units out there. In the day I Loved the cassette 4/8 Trks FOSTEX . I can find the Roland for $200/175... They went for $3000k .........Thoughts Thanks
Hi there, thank you sop much for nice video, how about the fan in the back, is it loud? I listen to some hiz noise inside your voice narration, has the fan something to do with this? Please, give me a fast answer, I am planning to buy one of these, many greetings from Germany, Alfredo
thank god we have pro tools and computers daws now and i never had to use this shit. when i started these were still being sold at guitar center around 99-02 but in that time frame computer recording had started taking off and i'm glad , the manuals were hard as hell to understand and youtube was not much help because there was no youtube
These are fairly inexpensive to buy used now, but still a very capable device. Back in the day, circa the turn of the century, they were THE hot item and cost about $3,000! You can find them now for 200-300 dollars. Many are in pristine condition, having seen little actual use.
Hi, I recently got this unit as a classic mixer. Works perfect but have only one FX card. Can I insert multiple effects to channels? Lets say a reverb to vocal channel and Chorus to guitar channel from one card? TIA
I bought 1680 records great but I can't hardly hear it through playback Is their certain speakers, you need am I recording to low, l hope someone Reads this and can help. Thank you
Hi Mukesh, I'm having trouble recording tracks to CD burner. Manual talks about mixdowns and Mastering but makes it very confusing to carry out. Do you have any advice?
Hi, if you are still around the RUclips scene, I have query, I have recorded 4 tracks on my 1680, I see the tracks during playback, I just cannot hear them.............. I assume I have a button pressed somewhere, but I just don't know where to look to get the sound from the phones. Help!!!!! please.
and where do i place this pin stariotti' when i purchase this.' the Rolland mixer i have was a gift' but it came with out a hard drive. i don't have much knowledge about the mixer' but once i get a hard drive to access it' i'll able to learn it.
Hi mukesh god bless you pls come back . I got ve 880 bit when I go to save it says " no hdd " so how can check that it has hdd or how to connect it to hdd ? My email is vivekpappy@gmail.com
really?so basically works like a reel to reel 1/4 inch tape machine? so the numbers of tracks im able to multitrack in this case would be all of the inputs? The thing is i was going to buy a reel to reel machine but i guess this is cheaper and easrier to star with and still give that sweet analog white noise, can ou give any advise on what to buy better?
Ivan Fabila yes it records multitracking, that’s the whole purposed of it’s existence, but it’s all digital so you won’t get the analog sound you’re after.
Hi, i'm interested in getting a vs 1680 being sold for a really cheap price. The only issue is that the backlight for the lcd screen doesn't work anymore. Would it actually still be usable without the backlight? Like, will i actually still be able to see the things on the screen without it? I'd like to hear from anyone who have experienced this situation.
Again, you are talking about audio and this video has a lot of hizz noise inside the audio, you must check your videos before uploading, thanks for the video
hi how is everyone' i am looking for a hard drive for my roland work station' can some one help me were can i locate one' or if you know anyone dat has one for sale
+alister lara buy a 44pin to sd card adapter to upgrade to a 16gb sd drive. www.amazon.com/44-Pin-Male-IDE-Card-Adapter/dp/B003MN1H9U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441230291&sr=8-1&keywords=44pin+to+sd&pebp=1441230298346&perid=13FJWVCFVWQY0AAFN03H
@@sonimukeshg1 thank you, it's everything but the inputs and buttons I need to get info on. Just picked one up without power supply, trying to learn a such as I can about use before I turn on. Ty for the reply, will make sure to watch a couple times. :)
I just received a VS-1680 as a gift. I have been recoding, and producing for many years. This particular system, though "obsolete", i.e. discontinued, it is a great system. For a sample of the sounds you can get, please see my video, "ANCESTRAL" on my channel. The song was recorded, mixed, and mastered with the VS-1680, and the quality is amazing. I've been having great troubles figuring the system out... and being a woman, the tears of frustration fell like rain! LOL.Mukesh, you are a great teacher. Thank you!
Thanks Taina. I fully agree that vs 1680 has amazing sound recording quality. You can download all 4 of my vs1680 videos for future ref. cheers, Mukesh
I;ve had mine for 18 years and it still works perfectly. What a piece of gear!!!
what did you pay for yours?
Me too ! but i have the vs-880, IBM laptop hard drives built tough .
I sold mine 14 years ago and used the money to get a weighted-key midi controller keyboard. Best decision I could have made.
It was a beast in it’s time though.
So this is the way to go.THERE are so many other units out there.
In the day I Loved the cassette 4/8 Trks FOSTEX . I can find the Roland for $200/175...
They went for $3000k .........Thoughts Thanks
Great instructional videos. Very good presentation. Thanks a million. Any more?
Thanks Adams! I now use Roland VS2000. I found it difficult to use so I made the videos for everyone.
Thank u for taking time out to post this for your viewers
EXCELLENCE AT IT'S BEST, A FINE INSTRUCTOR!
Thanks again for your video. It makes it so much easier to work things out with this recorder. You also seem to make very nice music with it as well.
Mukesh please come back I miss you everyday never leave us again
Thank you for making these video's. I only own the vs for a few days
Hi there, thank you sop much for nice video, how about the fan in the back, is it loud? I listen to some hiz noise inside your voice narration, has the fan something to do with this? Please, give me a fast answer, I am planning to buy one of these, many greetings from Germany, Alfredo
Roland VS 1680 records clean. The video was made in computer that's why you hear the noise of computer fan. Cheers.
I shall recommend you to use VS2000 or more updated model for better features
thank god we have pro tools and computers daws now and i never had to use this shit. when i started these were still being sold at guitar center around 99-02 but in that time frame computer recording had started taking off and i'm glad , the manuals were hard as hell to understand and youtube was not much help because there was no youtube
@@Jon-tt9bf me too
These are fairly inexpensive to buy used now, but still a very capable device. Back in the day, circa the turn of the century, they were THE hot item and cost about $3,000! You can find them now for 200-300 dollars. Many are in pristine condition, having seen little actual use.
Hi, I recently got this unit as a classic mixer. Works perfect but have only one FX card. Can I insert multiple effects to channels? Lets say a reverb to vocal channel and Chorus to guitar channel from one card? TIA
Yes
Can we used this for daw recording .. can we connect to nuendo 4 for daw recording
you can tempo-sync to any daw but you cannot export audio, only realtime audio
I bought 1680 records great but I can't hardly hear it through playback
Is their certain speakers, you need am I recording to low, l hope someone
Reads this and can help. Thank you
Hi Mukesh,
I'm having trouble recording tracks to CD burner. Manual talks about mixdowns and Mastering but makes it very confusing to carry out. Do you have any advice?
Hi, if you are still around the RUclips scene, I have query, I have recorded 4 tracks on my 1680, I see the tracks during playback, I just cannot hear them.............. I assume I have a button pressed somewhere, but I just don't know where to look to get the sound from the phones. Help!!!!! please.
and where do i place this pin stariotti' when i purchase this.' the Rolland mixer i have was a gift' but it came with out a hard drive. i don't have much knowledge about the mixer' but once i get a hard drive to access it' i'll able to learn it.
the noise sound in this video is the VS1680??
No I recorded this from a camera.
il n'est jamais trop tard pour dire merci /
Thank you, Sir, for your trouble. UK
Hi mukesh god bless you pls come back . I got ve 880 bit when I go to save it says " no hdd " so how can check that it has hdd or how to connect it to hdd ? My email is vivekpappy@gmail.com
hey man thanks a lot i have a question, can you do multitracking on this machine??
yes you can.
really?so basically works like a reel to reel 1/4 inch tape machine? so the numbers of tracks im able to multitrack in this case would be all of the inputs?
The thing is i was going to buy a reel to reel machine but i guess this is cheaper and easrier to star with and still give that sweet analog white noise, can ou give any advise on what to buy better?
I now have vs2000 which can be connected to pc via usb and has CD burning capabilities. You can buy a second hand vs2000 in few extra dollars.
Ivan Fabila yes it records multitracking, that’s the whole purposed of it’s existence, but it’s all digital so you won’t get the analog sound you’re after.
why did you delete your singing
helpful man god bless u
My best wishes for you..
Hi, i'm interested in getting a vs 1680 being sold for a really cheap price. The only issue is that the backlight for the lcd screen doesn't work anymore. Would it actually still be usable without the backlight? Like, will i actually still be able to see the things on the screen without it?
I'd like to hear from anyone who have experienced this situation.
+Jerome Raymundo Are you still having problems despite the contrast button located top right of the screen?
+Taina Amayi I ended up not buying it. I'll probably just try to get one next time, without the issues.
+Jerome Raymundo Good idea, my friend
Again, you are talking about audio and this video has a lot of hizz noise inside the audio, you must check your videos before uploading, thanks for the video
Hello sir please sir how do I contact it with my computer interface
By mic input. I had stopped using it several years ago. I now use Roland vs 2000, which generates a wav file which can be used to mix etc. Cheers
@@sonimukeshg1 sir how much do you have that one
Does it have a n internal hard disk?
G.O. Dahlie yes
hi how is everyone' i am looking for a hard drive for my roland work station' can some one help me were can i locate one' or if you know anyone dat has one for sale
+alister lara buy a 44pin to sd card adapter to upgrade to a 16gb sd drive. www.amazon.com/44-Pin-Male-IDE-Card-Adapter/dp/B003MN1H9U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441230291&sr=8-1&keywords=44pin+to+sd&pebp=1441230298346&perid=13FJWVCFVWQY0AAFN03H
Is this the same for the vs2000cd?
yes. very similar
@@sonimukeshg1 thank you, it's everything but the inputs and buttons I need to get info on. Just picked one up without power supply, trying to learn a such as I can about use before I turn on.
Ty for the reply, will make sure to watch a couple times.
:)