It’s really quite powerful and fun to experiment with.

You can also copy segments and repeat them to create excellent stutter or glitch results. You can vary the speed at different times or pitch. It works rather well and found that you could really come up with some interesting results from mangling your samples. You can also slice the samples and sequence them or arrange them differently on a time line. I’ve tested quite a bit with Windows 7 and thus far have experienced zero issues, so I basically use my Windows 7 desktop or a Macbook pro running Bootcamp. If you use Mac OSX, I believe you’ll run into driver troubles. There is a rather nice Sampling Editor which installed and loaded just fine under Windows 7. This might not seem like much space for samples, but actually I found it to be plenty when creating instruments. Inside the Roland Varios can house 20MB worth of samples that you can import either via USB or PC Card Slot. I have heard that the Varios is no longer supported by Roland and it’s not as popular as the V-Synth, but I was eager to get it due to the VC-1 card being included. I already have the Roland V-Synth 2.0 along with the VC-2 Vocal Designer Card, so I was pretty excited about scoring a mint condition Roland Varios. I bought it for $180 which included the Roland VC-1 D-50 expansion card. Last weekend I picked up a used Roland Varios Open System Module from a used music store way out in the countryside in Nagano-city, Japan.

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