Roland VS-1880 as a controller??

[Max Arwood]

Can the Roland VS – 1880 be used as a daw controller to record volume envelopes?

[Amberwolf]

Does it send CCs for the controls on it you want to use for this?

Which volume envelope do you want to record?  If it's the CC7 envelope in a midi track, then if it sends CC7 that's easy.      If it's something else, like the track volume automation envelope itself on a synth or audio track, then you may have to set it up as a control surface.   

Azslow probably has something to do this with, but I haven't experimented with his stuff yet (I should, he's brilliant). 

A few years ago I used some generic thing I found cheap on ebay used, "Worlde Panda Mini 25-Key Portable USB Keyboard Drum Pad MIDI Electric Controller" the older model of this https://www.amazon.com/Worlde-Portable-Keyboard-Controller-Colorful/dp/B079FGP3BH?th=1  and between using it's software to define notes / ccs for the controls and the control surface "learn" stuff in SONAR, I managed to get it to control a few things. Took a few hours to figure out, but was easy enough once I got the idea. 

 

I'd still be using it for that cuz it was really handy, but it's electronics are pretty shitty, and all the pots (slider or knob) are really jittery and "gappy', tending to jump around in values or skip whole groups of values.  It's worse the faster you move them, and the jumps aren't in the same place everytime, so it's not the pots it's the stuff that reads and processes them.    (I could've replaced the pots easy enough, so of course it couldn't be that).