Members The Audacity Works Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Okay, so I cashed some favors in and actually got some face time with the Fantom-G. Spent about 30 minutes shooting questions and sucking up a LOT of information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Audacity Works Posted January 18, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 All right. On to your questions and comments... Most answers are from my observations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Audacity Works Posted January 18, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 In/Out: Layout? How many MIDI outs?Only one MIDI out. The one question I had was whether or not a MIDI track could be sent discretely from either a MIDI output channel OR a USB MIDI channel. Roland didn't have an answer for me. Since there are only 16 external parts, I'm assuming not. It'd be really cool to send one track on channel 1 to a Virus Ti and another track on channel 1 to Reason, but I don't think you can do that. Maybe in an update. As a side note, the RD-700GX has Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Audacity Works Posted January 18, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Whew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members G-bus v2.0 Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 How many pre-programmed arps are there? (e.g. compared to Motif's 6600 and Korg's Karma engine)128, but each arp has 128 variations as well as 10 motifs (seriously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Audacity Works Posted January 18, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 If each arp has 128 variations plus 10 motifs available, there are 17,664 distinct arp variations in total. I'm not sure what a "motif" is, but if it can be applied to each of the 128 variations per arp, then there are 163,840 distinct arp variations in total. Motif is up, down, up/down, random, glissando... crap, I forget the rest. They probably don't really count as dedicated arp styles. Let's stick with 17,664. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members G-bus v2.0 Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Thanks for posting your review and Q&A... I was skeptical at the thought of yet another Fantom, but you've piqued my interest and I'm looking forward to checking it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Boffinry Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Man, thanks for posting. I want one!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Diametro Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Thank you. Breathe. Do not want. Do not want ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tonyrobbins Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 we love you.:thu::thu::thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LameAim Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Thanks for the extra mile info, as always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mike Conway Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Thanks for the rundown!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lewey Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Flash memory costs what, 10$ per Gb? It's no more an excuse for having a small ROM. If a synth has small ROM nowadays - it's because the company simply lazy/doesn't want to work on/add new sounds. Great review, btw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Birdienumnum Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A*X*7 Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Thanks....I look forward to testing one.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Audacity Works Posted January 18, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 A few more I've remembered and/or ripped off other sites: What's the I/O resolution?Still records 16-bit, but the converters are 24-bit/96k. What kind of audio files does it import?WAV and AIFF. What's the max storage that's been tested?8 GB USB 2.0 key. There's the potential of larger storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khazul Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Thanks for posting that lot And there was me thinking the Fantom-X was still the best of the 3 (overall ie useability etc rather than just purely on sound) when put up against the Motif XS and M3. Even us dance types need a rompler in there somewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vchow Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Thank you very much. Roland US 'd just post the video here, http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=918&ParentId=72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P321 Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Since few people know what it's like to play on a real ivory keyboard (what with the killing of elephants and all), I'm not sure how much of an advantage this is, but the escapement element of the weighted action is pretty authentic. Liked it.Isn't it supposed to feel less slippy under the fingers with the ivory texture? Thought that's the thinking anyway.. I would guess that their first drums expansion board is also largely technology lifted from their VDrums too? Roland recycling again (although not a bad thing to be recycling at all), so wouldn't be a huge surprise if something JP-8000 like showed up as an add-on board too. It looks quite nice, but the lack of a touchscreen is slightly surprising these days, since it seems like, in general, things are moving towards those rather than away from.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Diametro Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 $$$$$$$$$$$$ Keeping it real ... I am officially scheming ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members C#minor Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 A few more I've remembered and/or ripped off other sites: What's the I/O resolution? Still records 16-bit, but the converters are 24-bit/96k. ..... Are you sure about this? The specs here says the sample rate is 44k. I'm confused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Keymaster Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Nice info,thanks for that,it answers quite a few questions.Thats a fair bit of typing,well done sir. Most of it seems pretty good,I am a little curious about the file management system though.I can see the benefits of projects and all associated parts that belong to that project but can you still access Songs in a list and place them in a specific set or order? That is such a useful feature on the Fan X. Can you quick playback all songs stored in internal or external storage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ShakaCthulu Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 Any chance they'll port the engine over to a tabletop unit like the MV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Doesn't seem like there's going to be a ton of new sounds (mostly pillaging the SRX boards ... which could work out fine but not as dramatic for expanded Fan-X owners) The G contains mostly all-new sounds, with a few classics from the Fantom, a good amount from the Sonic Cell, and a bunch from the SRX boards. More samples and patches are still to come. It's evolutionary, not revolutionary! Oh, shut the hell up. It's a ROMpler workstation, and a damn impressive one at that. I'll most likely snag the rack version if it's released later. Great post. Thanx. Where art thou GR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted January 18, 2008 Members Share Posted January 18, 2008 I'm not in the market for a new workstation but I love the USB audio integration, I could definitely use that. What's the max storage that's been tested?8 GB USB 2.0 key. There's the potential of larger storage. If they can't go larger they really screwed up. Motif and Triton have supported USB hard drives and CD-ROM since 2004...Triton even does audio CD burning over USB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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