Roland VM-7000 Series Digital Mixers Shipping

September 27, 1999 -- Roland has announced that the VM-7000-Series V-Mixing Systems are now shipping. Comprised of the VM-7200/7100 V-Mixing Processors and VM-C7200/C7100 V-Mixing Consoles, the V-Mixing Systems are the innovative and affordable separate-component digital mixers, featuring breakthrough design and innovative new effects in the tradition of Roland's acclaimed V-Studio workstations. Providing many configuration options for the console and processor, the V-Mixing System can yield up to 94 channels of digital mixing and 16 stereo effects processors when fully expanded. These digital mixing systems are now available at select authorized Roland dealers.

The V-Mixing System's separate-component design consists of an all-digital console with quiet motorized faders and an expandable 3U rackmount processor which contains all inputs, outputs and effects-eliminating the need for expensive multi-channel audio cables between the stage or studio and the mixing console. The V-Mixing Processors come with two stereo multi-effects processors, and can be expanded with three additional VS8F-2 Effects Expansion Boards for up to eight stereo or 16 mono channels of automated effects processing per processor. In addition to the wide variety of VS-1680-quality effects, these boards also include COSM Mic Simulations and a new Speaker Modeling algorithm. Designed to work with Roland's new DS-90 24-bit Digital Reference Monitors, Speaker Modeling can model the sound of popular nearfield studio monitors, as well as television/radio speakers and sound reinforcement cabinets.

In addition to its amazing effects power, the V-Mixing System offers Roland's best 24-bit A/D and D/A converters, extensive Scene memory including electronically controlled input gain, onboard mix automation with quiet motorized faders, 24 fader groups, dual-channel delays, 4-band parametric EQ + channel HPF, and Surround 5.1 mixing capabilities. The V-Mixing System also offers a Realtime Spectrum Analyzer which can be used with an onboard noise generator and oscillator to adjust for the acoustics of any given studio or live sound venue.

Internal flexibility is provided via liberating "FlexBus," and "virtual patchbay" functions. FlexBus allows for up to 24 individual busses to be freely switched between auxiliary and recording functions. The input/output routing is much like a "virtual patchbay," allowing users to define a destination channel for each input, while each of eight Assignable Output jacks or 24 optional Multi-Outputs per processor can pull from any source channel, from any bus, or directly from an individual channel-bypassing the bus routing altogether.

V-Mixing System options include VS8F-2 Effects Expansion Boards; the VM-24E I/O Expansion Board, which offers three R-BUS jacks on a single board-for a total of 24-in/24-out of 24-bit digital audio; the 1/3U rackmount DIF-AT Interface Box, which converts signals between R-BUS and ADAT(tm)/Tascam(r) T-DIF and handles 8-in/8-out digital audio; the VM-24C Cascade Kit, which allows for connecting two VM-Series processor units in line without sacrificing an MTR bus; the AE-7000 interface with 8 channels of AES/EBU digital I/O; and the ADA-7000 featuring 8 channels of balanced XLR/TRS mic and line I/O.

Together with the Roland V-Studio workstations and the DS-90 Powered Monitors, the new V-Mixing System completes the all-digital recording environment which Roland has been pioneering over the past several years. The VM-7000 Series V-Mixing Systems are available at select authorized Roland dealers.

For more information, visit Roland on the web at www.rolandus.com.