RolandVS-20 Audio Interface

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.

Been using this for about a year.Very easy to use!I bought this to use as a simple tool for writing/recording quick song ideas.I also use it to learn new songs cause I can easily import midi files and mp'3sI also sometimes just use the guitar rig software for practicing songs with a decent tone.The included guitar tones are pretty good.Its like having most of the Boss pedals in your computer.Very easy to edit tones and save them as user tones.The lite version of cakewalk works well.It is easy to finalize and create the songs into mp'sThe included mic is totally useless, It picks up every little bump or noise in the room.Occasionally I need to reboot cause it will somehow loose the connection with the VS-20 controller.I mostly use the on screen controls for everything.The included transport/mixing controller is nice for mix-down

I was able to record and stack tracks quite easily without having to red the whole manual. For an old guy like me they did a great job making it user friendly. :)

Great product

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 use Cakewalk Sonar X3, this device is perfect as a controller!!! Makes going thru projects easy breezy when multitracking audio and midi recordings and playback!!!

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.

Great product if it had mutes buttons on it . It would b better if the new does I will sell this and by the new