purchasing a fantom g6

purchasing a fantom g6, good thing or bad thing? with all the talk about what its lacking, i went from saving up, and looking so forward to getting one im now not sure. but when i look back at how the korg m3 got so down rated and now is being talked about like its actually a good board, maybe i should go a head and get the fantom. your thoughts please.

look at it as if you didn't have a fantom x, for of those of you who have one, and think would you get the new fantom or not

People upgrading from a Fantom X seem overall dissapointed, as it isn't much of an upgrade at all.

People buying a Fantom for the first time seem to love the G, as they have no previous Fantom to compare it to.

It's good for what it is, if you like it, get it.

Exactly. I was planning to use it in two bands: 70s-90s mainstream rock and a 70s/80s prog band (Genesis, Yes, etc). I was going to replace my X6 with a G7, but there are too many missing waveforms from the SRX-07 card. Multisampling all of that crap (Mellotrons, Taurus pedals, Solina, etc) just isn't an option...it's too time consuming and I already have that in the X6. If you need a few basic bread & butter sounds and like the idea of the seamless switching between patches, then by all means try it out. My gut feeling is that Roland will abandon the G quickly (based on the FA-76 and Fantom-S which were also sorely lacking). Another thing about the G that bugged me is that there are several groups of patches in a row that sound virtually the same, some even have the same name followed by a number (1, 2, 3). What's the point of that? It's wasted space...does Roland feel we are incapable of tweaking something to open a filter a notch?

I think the purpose of those numbered patches is to put them in a "performance" mode layer and pan then hard left, right or center ...

Again, it seems like a huge waste of space. I'm not sure why anybody would do what you're suggesting, but it would be easy enough to use the same patch 3 times in a performance and make filter/envelope tweaks using the performance settings themselves (or just copy the patches to the user bank and tweak them there). With 256MB of ROM in this thing, factory (read-only) patches could have been much more diverse.

The reason for the extra patches would be different waves and programming ... but again, the examples on the SRX cards might be programmed and designed better.

Can anyone confirm this because this is only a hunch ...

Please go ahead and buy the Fantom-G. Given you have now personally STARTED 12 threads about the Fantom-G, how many times are you going to keep asking the same questions? People have already spent a lot of time answering all of your questions.

Buy one already!!! If you buy from a store like Guitar Center with a 30-day free return policy, you can test it out for yourself and return it if you don't like it.

Another alternative would be for you to spend more time learning how to use your Korg M3, which you stated in an earlier post you purchased only three months ago (March 12, 2008).

All further posts should be deferred to dude5000's "Fantom G vs. being clean" thread.

Midi says: "Go for the (G)old!

Haven't seen your other posts but if you are going to use it onstage... yeah. There's currently nothing else like it in a workstation for live performance. If you're just going to hang out with it at home... no. It's not fleshed out yet. It's sounds currently don't match those of an expanded X.

So there's your choice. Simple black and white. No grey. It's all in the application. Stop fretting and act.