2003: The VS-2400CD

In January 2003, Roland announced a new 24-track workstation, the VS-2400CD, shown in Figure 1.10. The VS-2400CD inherited many of the features found in the flagship VS-2480CD, but it was priced at approximately 30 percent less.

Figure 1.10. Roland VS-2400CD digital studio workstation

Highlights of the VS-2400CD

Like the VS-2480CD, the VS-2400CD was a 24-track/24-bit workstation capable of sample rates up to 96kHz. The VS-2400CD also provided a VGA monitor output and mouse-based waveform editing and control and, like the VS-2480CD, included a VS8F-2 effect board pre-installed. The VS-2400CD also included features not found on the VS-2480CD, such as RSS 3-D panning and V-LINK for integrating Edirol video products. Here is a list of the highlights of the VS-2400CD:

• 48-channel digital mixer with motorized faders

• 56-bit internal mixing bus

• Sixteen simultaneous recording tracks, 24 simultaneous playback tracks

• Up to 4 onboard stereo effect processors, two pre-installed

• Eight analog ¼" balanced inputs and 8 XLR inputs with phantom power

• Internal 40GB hard drive

• Hard drive usability: four partitions, 10GB per partition

• Dynamic processing and 4- band EQ on every channel

Software Upgrades

In 2004, a new operating system upgrade was announced, which allowed the VS-2400CD to use the new VS8F-3 Plug-in effects board.