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Integrated mixers/recorders/effects processors were once quite common (computer-based systems have overtaken them in the last few years). Cassette porta-studios, first introduced in the 1970s, enabled the home recordist to compose music at home without spending a fortune on equipment. But it wasn’t until the Roland VS-880 came out in 1997 that great-quality recordings could be made at home using a single piece of equipment. Okay, you still needed an instrument and microphone to plug into it, but everything else fit into this one little box, which is now referred to as a studio-in-a-box system.