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Does anybody know how I get music that I've recorded on my Roland VS-840GX out of these:


And into these:

Do you have a sound card at all? Give us some specifications on the computer.

I'm guessing your VS saves everything onto ZIP discs. If so, you could find a ZIP drive and just transfer everything over to the PC that way. I'm not sure what format the VS940 saves into, might be WAV or some proprietary Roland format.

It depends on the soundcard really, the coaxial and optical methods are easy peasy to set up and you could use the audio outs and even the phone socket if you wanted. What sort of projects are you trying to transfer over? Individual tracks or a finished multitracked and mixed effort?

It would probably be finished songs since I don't have or want computer music-editing software.  It does record to ZIP disks and can create fully mixed .wav files to transfer to PC.  I was just hoping that I wouldn't have to seek out a ZIP 250 drive off eBay or wherever.  Thought maybe there'd be a simple cable that interfaces between things, thus treating the drive that's already in my Roland as a drive on the PC.

Which would be cool, I think. 

Your PC cant read roland zip disks afaik. you need a sound card with at optical or coaxial digital inputs or with analog phono inputs..I have a soundblaster audigy 2 ZS sound card which has all of those. otherwise you could try wiring up the phono outputs on your VS to the mic input on your PC not sure what it would sound like though! Best place to go to for more info is: http://www.vsplanet.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi

would probably be finished songs since I don't have or want computer music-editing software.  It does record to ZIP disks and can create fully mixed .wav files to transfer to PC.  I was just hoping that I wouldn't have to seek out a ZIP 250 drive off eBay or wherever.  Thought maybe there'd be a simple cable that interfaces between things, thus treating the drive that's already in my Roland as a drive on the PC.

If it's finished songs you want to transfer over, I would look to a really simple audio interface, cute little USB number with phono connectors on it. I'm sure Edirol had a very simple one that won't break the bank.

If you want finished mixes, you can also use the optical out (which looks quite a bit like an RCA jack, but different cable) to send the output to a recording deck (like the Marantz CDR-500 I used to have).  If you can get it to a wave file, that would be great, but If I recall the pain about the Roland units is that most of the data is in a proprietary format (which is why I ended up selling my VS-880EX, but the effects cards in those is pretty nice).

DB