A 16-track, 24-bit Recording Powerhouse!

Roland's flagship workstation, offering 16 tracks of audio recording, 256 Virtual Tracks to try out all of your ideas, four optional powerful stereo multi-effects processors, digital automated mixing capability and an enhanced 24-bit MT-Pro recording mode.

Being the bigger brother of the VS-880EX/840EX, the VS-1680 is a 16-track digital workstation.Up to eight simultaneous recording and 16 simultaneous playback tracks making the VS-1680 the ultimate recorder.With 16 virtual tracks for each 16 tracks, the VS-1680 becomes an awesome 256-track recorder!

Thanks to the Roland R-DAC new MT-PRO mode, the VS-1680 24-bit internal processing boast more dynamic range and massive headroom when editing and this put the VS-1680 ahead of the competition and for example, it offers an impressive 808 total track minutes of 16-track audio recording and playback at 44.1kHz.

The VS-1680's huge backlit 320 x 240 dot full graphic LCD simultaneously displays level meters, play lists, EQ and effects settings, waveform editing and more.Knob-style icons and graphic EQ curves allow for intuitive tweaking of levels and parameters.The huge backlit LCD with an intuitive graphic user interface makes the VS-1680 both massively powerful and very easy to use.
Two optional VS8F-2 gives the VS-1680 the capability of having 4 independent stereo multi-effects processorsor up to 8 mono channels of independent effects and this new card takes the advantage of the VS-1680 24-bit processing.The 34 multi-effects algorithms from VS8F-2 contains some of the original algorithms from VS8F-1 and some exciting new ones.

• Studio engineers and producers looking for a powerful, compact "all-in-one" 16-track workstation
• audio professionals requiring more than 8 tracks of audio or are looking for powerful waveform editing capability
• Remix artists who need to record 8 tracks of audio simultaneously and playback up to 16 tracks at once
• Serious home recordists and musicians who want the best portable, self-contained digital workstation on the market
• VS-880 Users who wish to add tracks and professional audio editing capability
• Anyone wanting to record their own audio CD's