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#247714 - 11/10/08 09:44 AM
Re: Fantom G7 - UNREAL
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Registered: 10/27/03
Posts: 2417
Loc: CA
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I don't think the Fantom G uses any Cosm effects on the Organs. I agree with all of you that the Organs on the Fantom G are not the best, to put it mildly. The Fantom G series do have expandability (unlike the Motif XS on the other hand). The "new" ARX expansion boards increase the sound palette as well as providing much greater tweakability to individual sounds on the ARX card itself. There are two out now i.e. ARX-01(Drums) & ARX-02 (EP's). Roland recently announced the soon release of new ARX cards, possibly at Winter NAMM 2009. Maybe one of them will be an ARX Organ card, eh? Yeah chas, I have the 'other' Fantom G7 on the forum. I've had mine since late May when I knew for sure that Roland would provide an update to the original factory shipped OS (which was buggy and lacked some necessary functionality - like multisampling for one). Roland just released the newest OS update on November 6th. The new version is 1.20 and it added some neat stuff like better Sequencer functionality, bug fixes, and the ability to use "larger" USB Flash Drives i.e. (over 2GB in size). Plus with OS version 1.20 the RAM capacity has now doubled to 1GB instead of the 512MB that it was originally. PS: Since the Fantom G is a 'true' "workstation" chas, you can fully "edit" the Organs to try and make them sound better if you wish. The easy solution is for Roland to provide an Organ ARX card though. We'll find out soon enough if the next and, soon to be released, batch of ARX cards includes one. That would be nice if they did. Best, Mike
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#247716 - 11/10/08 12:04 PM
Re: Fantom G7 - UNREAL
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Senior Member
Registered: 10/08/00
Posts: 4715
Loc: West Virginia
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Don't forget how much these new expansion cards are too... They're nearly double what the SRX boards went for.. These new cards are like $450! If you got Roland gear that takes SRX.., start buying them up now
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#247717 - 11/10/08 12:46 PM
Re: Fantom G7 - UNREAL
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Senior Member
Registered: 09/29/05
Posts: 6703
Loc: Roswell,GA/USA
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Al, Mike. Yeah, I have already done the OS update and ordered a 1G ram expansion. I can't explain their rationalization for the the organs but since I had a Nord C1 which covers all the organ variations I'm likely to use, I wasn't too concerned. Perhaps I should have been. From what I've heard so far, I would describe most of the bread-and-butter sounds as good to very good and synth sounds as outstanding. If I were going for the very best acoustic and bread-and-butter sounds, I would probably look elsewhere. That said, the board truly IS feature rich, with enormous sound potential but leans more towards a production workstation than a performance synth (in my opinion). I think the price represents the on-board sampling/sequencing/recording capabilities. You would need to carefully set up this board and know it thoroughly if you intended to use it as a gig (performance) board. I had a tiny little grey GE mouse that I had used with a laptop which works well with this board but being so used to Korgs, I wouldn't mind having that backed up with a touch screen (yeah, I know there are two camps on that). Perfect for me.......TouchScreen backed up by 'knobs and buttons' all with 'mouse' capability. The main reasons I got this board? 1. Currently, no Roland sounds except for the SonicCell. 2. I wanted to try some more modern, experimental music and wanted a good source of easy to retrieve, modern sounds coupled with a reasonably capable, easy to use, sampler. 3. I liked the overall 'sound' of the board, much like I always liked the sound of the old original Triton (which I still have and use). 4. I got sucked in by that (french) demo that you posted . 5. I was bored (aka the 'Donny' syndrome). Oh well, back to the woodshed. This thing is complex. Looking for a tutorial DVD if you know of one. Wish I had Rikki's resolve, patience, curiosity, etc., at digging into the bowels of these things. chas
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