Recording like its the 90’s : Roland VS-840

Recording like its the 90’s : Roland VS-840

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Recording like its the 90’s : Roland VS-840
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I’ve been wanting one of these since I was 18 years old, and now its dirt cheap to buy one! So for $50 I bought a Roland VS-840 8 track digital mixer and recorder on Ebay and its my overview and review of it.

✦ Video is a little long, so here are the main points ✦
00:00 Start
02:38 Introduction to the Unit.
04:11 The “thic” manual
05:55 Loading up a song
07:29 Demo song
08:40 Zip disk click of death
09:42 Audio Data Compression
10:02 Who is this for?
12:52 Recording inputs
15:39 New Song
17:30 Effects
20:00 Midi Syncing
23:06 Expanding it into the modern age
23:38 Final Thoughts

✦ In the end part ✦
I’m going to replace the Zip drive with an SD card reader.

✦ In this video I used ✦
Novation Circuit
Roland VS-840

✦ Me ✦
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Email: tuppaware@gmail.com
Web: https://adamware.me
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/tuppawareau

✦ Gear I Use ✦
Camera : Panasonic G7 DSLR
Lens: Olympus 17mm 2.8f
Video Mic: Rode VideoMic Me-L
Voice Over Mic: AT2020

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