Chas! Take it back!! If you're not happy with your Fantom G7 then return it! It's been less than 30 days right? If you're firm with them they will most likely not charge you a re-stocking fee either. I highly recommend if you're not happy with it to take it back and get you're money back. Guitar Center has a NO QUESTIONS ASKED 30 day return policy. Take advantage of it! And then get something that will make you happy... >> I agree with you that the Jazz kits on the FG aren't spectacular. And 75 acoustic pianos are wayyyyyy to many. With that many you would think there would be at least one or two that would be superb huh? Tweaking them can really help immensely though. If you're up to tweaking them that is. I know a lot of people don't want to tweak anything, they just want to play. But that goes contrary to the true nature of what a "work"station is really meant to be I suppose.

Best, Mike

Dont forget to add the cost of a good case

Yeah, I should. But I feel like I haven't really given it a fair shot. Very curious as to how you feel about yours. Happy? What was the intended usage when you got it. Does it fullfil that need? Have you learned it in-depth? What do you see as it's greatest weakness? Would you purchase it again?

chas

Reading the specs there doesnt seem to be a sequencer on the Audya. Is that correct ? and are any of the demos that feature on the website actual styles at all or just sequenced songs ?



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I've got to say, chas, I have sat down and spent probably a couple of hours on the FantomG8 so far. It isn't calling out to me, going "Buy me, buy me!" yet

Very little is, to be honest. Nord Stage, perhaps. Nord Electro3, possibly. Right now, there's nothing but incremental change in the products, nothing groundbreaking, and FAR too many of the WS's are trying to incorporate multitrack audio recorders and sequencers that are pale shadows of a good computer system. Such a waste. That's why I like Nord so much. No sequencers, no audio recorders. Just great, authentic sound.

Take back the FantomG, and take a look at software. Get a dedicated computer JUST for VSTi's... Take a look at Omnisphere, BFD, Trilogy, Ivory and others. You want the best sounds possible? You want the same stuff the pro's are using? Most of them (even some live!) are using VSTi's right now. You won't be gigging out with this stuff, so portability is not a factor. You seem happy enough just with the C1!

Stop looking for a 'one keyboard to rule them all' solution, and get down with the specialist stuff...

Just my opinion....

...which I value. In fact, 'though I should be depressed, I'm actually kinda happy (in a perverse way) to hear someone (whose opinion I value) confirm (affirm?) my feeling about it. I gotta go check the receipt date. If I do take it back, I'll probably not be able to walk back out of the store with nothing, so I now have to think of some kind of replacement. Maybe I should just hold onto the cash and hold out for a new Audya, or maybe wait for Dom to collect all the parts and freeze the OS on the Mediastation .

Here's what I've been thinking. Get a more modern, up-to-date, full-featured 61key (don't faint, remember I already have the A70) controller (there's even one that comes in RED) and use that to drive both the SonicCell and softsynths. Why 61? To possibly sit atop the C1 and drive the SonicCell at a gig. I tried using the lower manual of the C1 for this but frankly, although it will work (after a fashion) it makes a lousy controller.

Anyhow, if I take it back, this will reinstate the SonicCell as my 'Roland' soundsource. I probably would have been better off with one of those new GW8's. Ahhh, so many choices, so little cash.

chas

Uh uh, looks like I'm screwed. The date on the receipt is 11/07/08; six days late. Oh well, I'd already bought a 1 Gb mem and upgraded the OS. Now, I guess I'll have to dig in and learn it. Ahhhh, easy come, easy go. I will NEVER listen to another internet demo again. Uh, what's the URL on that Audya....... oh nevermind.

chas

Internet demos are only the START of something for me...

Despite how good the G70's demos were, it took me two whole afternoons of playing the G70 at the store (50 miles away) before I bought it. It has to scream "BUY ME!" at least on two different days before I trust my instincts.

This has worked out well for me in the past. I have yet to buy anything that I did not use for several years, without any regret.

(Plus, I still digged that MotifXS demo better than the FantomG's ones, too )

Just sell it, chas... if you are not loving it by now, why force yourself to keep it? Find a store with a Nord Stage, and do a trade

Anybody interested in a Fantom G7......cheap?

chas

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