Roland fantom g vs fa vs new 2019 fantom gearslutz. The roland fantom g6 is the standard for production. No sound when roland fantom g8 hooked up apple community. And the fantoms sounds are full of life, thanks to the endless modulation routings afforded by matrix controlall of which beg to be. Fantomx also offers a special category of patch called rhythm sets, which are usually played on the fantomx pads. The keyboard workstation is the modern musicians sonic swiss army knife. See more ideas about roland fantom, the incredibles and videos. Patchman music roland fantom xr, x6, x7, x8 soundbanks.
Thrill and excitement the thrill and excitement of your creative experiences. The fantomg8 is a dream instrument that redefines the boundaries of playability and creativity with its advanced sound engine, revolutionary arx supernatural expansion bay, largesized color lcd, powerful new audiomidi sequencer, firstclass ivory feel weighted keys, and more. Dedicated piano, organ, and synth sound enginesorganized in three intuitive blocks on the front panelprovide all the essential tones you need, right under your fingertips. Unfollow roland fantom g to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Kybd works fine no backlight there are no service manuals i can find on line.
Please check out the videos for a better understanding of this incredible keyboard. Fgws01the fantomg possibilities roland corporation u. Hundreds of new dance, pop and hiphop oriented patches. When the fantomg is selected on the computer as its audio input and output, its easy to get audio back and forth between them. For everyone else, prepare for a bit of a learning curve as roland gear can be hard to learn for the uninitiated. This is my first video in a couple of years, but i think it will be the first of many more to come.
This forum for roland arranger keyboards grew from the old g70 user club denmark. Not to mention, considering what you get, the junog is a very affordable synth. Unfollow roland fantom g6 to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. I dont know if this matters because it does recognize it as a midi controller, but the patch bank is different than mine when trying to access the patches through pro tools.
With approximately 300 allnew patches and 10 rhythm sets, the srx07 covers all the. I am trying to access the screen on my fantom g8 to replace it. Scott tibbs shows of the junog at namm 2006 in anaheim, ca. The fantomg6 offers an awful lot under one roof and boasts some intuitive. If the new patches dont appear on your sys1 after youve done this, try deleting these before trying again. Emerging from the mists of time comes the rejuvenated fantom, rolands new flagship workstation synthesizer.
Enjoy this old school fantom promo video from roland in 2002. Dan krisher takes you on a guided tour of the junog workstation keyboard. When you want to use the fantomg in the most traditional, straightahead waymaybe with a single patch on the keyboard and a rhythm set or rhythm on the padssingle modes the way to go. I am trying to access the screen on my fantom g8 to. Fantom runs multiple synthesis technologies simultaneouslyincluding zencore, supernatural, and vpianofor authentic acoustic and electronic sounds, both modern and vintage. Review and history of the roland fantom g tweakheadz. Roland has announced a free update for owners of the fantom g. If system g isnt already selected, use the previous. And, fantom has plenty of room for expansion with new sounds and new possibilities coming regularly. Very clean, there is a port to use a mouse so its easy to navigate the screen. Oct 30, 2014 this board will help you learn more about your roland fantom g. I realize this post is old, but i just wanted to thank you for taking the time to post it. Fantom nails coveted instruments from rolands vaunted legacy of genredefining synths, while blazing new synthesis frontiers.
I started decomposing some of the songs earlier today, and creating studio sets on my fa that have these songs comprised of fa tones that are similar, and layerssplits. I have tried to open the kybd, it starts to open then stops app 14 way open i cannot see what is preventing me to open all the way. Vcombo vr09 this synth is travelready, affordable, and outfitted with toplevel roland sounds, the vcombo vr09 is the ideal allinone solution for performing keyboard players. Roland always puts out the most creative and warm sounds. It nails our classic synths but pushes into new territory as well. The tweak takes you on a spin through the lineage of the roland fantom. Originally posted by xp50player there has been this modeless concept hype, but there is in fact a single tone button that takes you to vpiano initially, but doing so wipes out your scene edit buffer. The fantom x has all of the waveforms and actual patches the xa and s has, but has a very large additional set of 88notesampled piano waves. Roland fantom g6 workstation keyboard roland encyclotronic. Roland fantom g for sale in uk 61 used roland fantom gs. On offer is my superb roland fantom g6 keyboard workstation. A fantom g patch which is the basic building block of more complex sounds. Rolands fantom workstation reaches its fourth generation with the g series. Everything on this board is well built and put together to last.
When setting up my midi configuration on pro tools for the fantom, i had to add a new device where roland fantom was available, but roland fantom g 6 was not. Though rolands fantom workstation series hasnt been running as long as the phantom a popular american comic strip continuously in print since 1936, it. Any roland fantom g6 users know how to download the patch. The g6 has 5 octaves but you can transpose if you need too. If roland had another couple of years to iterate on what they could do with all the banks of patches theyve included with the new instruments, they could bring everything up to current levels of control, delicacy, subtlety and tonal shaping. In this video i wanted to give an easy overview of how to apply effects to patches in order to make your own custom sounds. Roland fantom8 music workstation keyboard sweetwater. Roland fantomg from sampling to create patch with bpm sync. When i first posted this it was 11 months old now its a little bit older. The roland fantom x series is one of the best audiomidi workstation series developed by roland. New orchestral sounds including all type of strings, woodwinds and brass.
Matt has used these sounds in performance for over 4 years. This workshop booklet explains how to save fantomg songs, samples, patches, and everything else. Introducing the most powerful and luxurious live workstation in roland history. Roland clan forums view topic studio set songpatch. It was the same xv engine, that had evolved from the previous jv engine. Fantomg accepts new arx wave expansion cards, has larger fullcolor screen, 16 insert effects per patch and other improvements. Rhythm sets are discussed in the rhythms of the fantomx workshop booklet. All the pcm 1083 multisamples of xv5080 included in roland cloud jv1080 and in integra 7 and all the 450 pcm supernatural synth tone of integra 7 are included in the new fantom besides the presets, of course there is also the possibility of creating your own patches with its updated engine. Overview of the fantomg temporary area about memory when you switch on the fantomgs power or load a project, the project data is placed in an area of memory called the temporary area.
The fa08 sequencer is very similar to the fantom g series and some other roland workstations. Using patches in performance mode is discussed in the sequencing on the fantomx and performing with the fantomx workshop booklets. Rolands powerful fantomx sound engine offers up to 128 voices of polyphony a quantum leap from the 6 voices offered by the original junos. At fantoms core are rolands custom behavior modeling chips, powering the instrument with smooth, precise control, massive polyphony, and full patch remain for seamless transitions. Fantomg usb storage when you edit a patch or song, you are modifying. Check out our inventory of new, used, and vintage gear. Roland fantom g motif sequence in this video i wanted to show how to properly. After the fantomx, roland produced its successor, the fantomg, which included twice the waveform memory, more patches, 128 voice polyphony,advanced and easy to use sequencer. For anyone familiar with roland gear, the transition will be very fast. The fantomg features a new sound engine that provides a patch multieffect pfx for each sound patch at all times, allowing you to create lavish sounds in a. Though the samples are decent on that board, the patches are not, leaving velocity switching during performances highly detectable. Fantomx techsyn fantomx techsyn is filled with more supercool synth sounds, fat analog basses, original dance stabs and hits, rich sweeping resonant pads, cuttingedge synth leads and cool synthfx that will inspire you to. This patch uses the first of the two waveform sets on the srx02 board and improves on the many flaws of the included patches that come on that expansion board. For a list of the new user patches, live sets, studio sets, rhythm sets, rhythm pattern sets, and rps sets, see page 10.
There are three basic types of sounds on the fantomg. In all, there are 1,024 patches 640 preset patches, 128 user patches and 256 gm2 sounds, plus 29 rhythm sets at the ready. Maybe the most powerful aspect of usb on the fantomg is its ability to stream audio from the fantomg to a computer, and from the computer to the fantomg. Warran harris takes an indepth look at the junog workstation keyboard.
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