Roland Introduces VM-3100 and VM-3100Pro V-Mixing
Stations
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| VM-3100Pro
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January 28, 1999Roland, the company that changed the face of
affordable digital recording with the legendary VS workstations, has now set
its sights on desktop digital mixing with the affordable VM-3100Pro and VM-3100
V-Mixing Stations. These compact digital mixers offer professional digital mixing
capabilities, very flexible signal routing options and powerful onboard effects
processing at a surprisingly affordable price-perfect for MIDI musicians, modular
digital multitrack owners looking for digital mixing capability, and V-Studio
owners who want to add more inputs and effects to their workstations.
The VM-3100Pro is a high-quality digital mixer with a 20-channel/8-bus design
and 24-bit* resolution via Roland's best A/D and D/A converters. It features
powerful digital mixing capabilities including the ability to store and instantly
recall complete mixer Scenes-which contain all mixer settings, EQ, signal routing
and effects settings-as well as full MIDI compatibility with an external hardware
or software-based MIDI sequencer for realtime automation. This professional-quality
mixer also offers an RMDB II port with 8 in/8 out 24-bit digital audio transfer,
and optional ADATª/Tascam T-DIF communication via a DIF-AT Interface Box.
The VM-3100Pro's dual onboard stereo effects processors include high-quality
dynamics processing, studio reverb, chorus, delay, guitar/vocal/keyboard multi-effects,
COSM Mic Simulation, new Speaker Modeling technology and more. The new COSM
Speaker Modeling capability allows stunning simulations of a variety of popular
nearfield monitors and even television/boombox speakers-perfect for connecting
to Roland's new DS-90 24-bit digital reference monitors and quickly analyzing
a particular mix through several different "speakers."
The VM-3100 model, on the other hand, offers a 12-channel/8-bus design with
24-bit resolution* and a single stereo multi-effects processor with compression,
reverb, delay, various multi-effects and more. Like the VM-3100Pro, these built-in
effects are virtually noiseless, and their settings can be stored and recalled
along with other mixer data via Scene memory.
Where the VM-3100Pro and VM-3100 really shine is in their highly flexible signal
routing capabilities. Both can be configured as 8-bus mixers via stereo Main,
Auxiliary, Bus and Monitor analog outputs. Digital outputs include A and B busses,
bringing the total number of busses to 12. Channel inputs include two balanced
Mic/Line inputs with phantom-powered XLR or standard TRS jacks, six unbalanced
Mic/Line inputs (including a Hi-Z input for direct guitar connection), and four
Line inputs. An S/P DIF coaxial/optical digital input is also included for loss-less
operation. And both mixers can be used as 16-channel MIDI mixers, sending MIDI
volume changes, MMC start/stop commands, and more.
These mixers feature an easy user interface with a 136 x 22 backlit graphic
LCD with helpful operational icons. Self-luminous buttons allow quick feature/function
confirmation, making digital mixing that much more convenient. (*Inputs 9-12 employ 20-bit A/D conversion.)
For more information, visit Roland on the web at www.rolandus.com. |
