Roland-Boss Digital Recorders

[slovak]

the VS series are better than BR series...
My projects were precise and warm. Classic recordings for my clients and references.

the VS series should have never been discontinued. (vsr880, -890, -1680, -1880)

I pawned my 880 and I'll never forgive myself. These are dedicated machines for digital transfers and mixing/mastering tools. The A/D converters are incredible. You might pull off a few magic tricks in the BR series, but you would have better results with VS series.

+ let the VS series controll your daw making the computer the slave.
Awesome control with no slipping. Convinced!

[Dean Aka Nekro]

Of course they are - they are/were the flagship models and boss is the little brother of roland so they get the watered down version of roland premium stuff bar guitar stompbox effects which are very good, OTOT the br series was/is aimed at the guitar playing market where as the roland vs series were not

[james0tucson]

Although I haven't tried it, my guess is that a larger card would probably work, but you'd only be able to access 1GB of its capacity due to the 16-bit sector addressing in the BR's file system. So why bother?

Longevity of the media?

A 4G card can survive much more wear-leveling than a 1G card, unless it's designed poorly. Maybe it's irrelevant for this application but flash media still have finite write cycles.

[Jim Y]

It may not be guaranteed to work with a >1GB card.

Either...

It will reject the card immediately

It will corrupt it when it attempts to format it and then reject it.

It turns out that it can use the larger card, just that size card wasn't available when the unit was designed & tested.

It may partition the larger card, but only be able to use the primary partition which is still max 1GB.

It may appear to work in the recorder, but turn out to be corrupt when you attempt to transfer your recordings to a computer due to an incompatible partition table.

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The VS range are design classics. I'm amazed Roland stopped making them. I'd also say the larger BOSS ones are stunningly ugly.

Jim

[Dean Aka Nekro]

The VS range are design classics. I'm amazed Roland stopped making them. I'd also say the larger BOSS ones are stunningly ugly.

Jim

Dont think your alone their Jim, the BR i got is used purely for abuse man and IMO they sound as good as they look mate: stunningly ugly sums up the sounds summoned from mine to a tee

Dean

[tonAP]

stunningly ugly sums up the sounds summoned from mine to a tee

.. of course we didn't mean breaking out one of those "Boss vs Roland" kinda fire

Anyway thnx all and, back to my original question (r-dac-mt format) I couldn't find other interesting resurces apart from vsplanet.com (thnx @Jim Y) and.. googlegoogle:
http://forum.cockos.com/archive/index.php/t-3190.html
[Source Code for MT2 to Wav Converter] By @randygo Veery interesting reading!
Also:
http://emusician.com/daw/emusic_roland_vs

So now I (think) have a vague idea of what is/does that compression format..

[Dean Aka Nekro]

Toni i must admit that i do it deliberately to my old unit and really i mean no offence to any other BR-Series user

Heck most anything i do ends up sounding ugly

All the best to you

Dean