Tony, your videos meet my needs better than anybody else's out there. Yours are more practical, and you took the time to figure it out beforehand instead of just stumbling around trying to be the first vendor to post. Thanks, Tony!
Most the people making those videos aren't actually selling the product, they just review so it's more about UA-cam views to them. For Tony it's to help sell units or at least get people into his store so he takes more time to give great detailed demonstrations.
Tony, I always wait with anticipation for your videos. Your retail sales ability and gigging experience make them so much more meaningful to me personally. I was the GM of Technics in the US before Panasonic closed us. I would have loved to have someone like you on my national staff. Congratulations on another brilliant video and thanks for making the instrument and it's features relevant. Cheers.
Wow what a superb demo! Beautifully filmed! You have a quality of showing things very fast and still remain very understandable! Chapeau! Adri from Holland
As usual, your reviews are absolutely the best out there, no only because of your concise explanations, and enthusiasm, but also your skill as a player.....I always look forward to them whenever there is a new keyboard out there, as you manage to cut to the chase so much better than other reviewers....Thank you, once again!
exactly the info I've been looking for as I use the Fantom G8 live. No other demo shows what you did and I watched them all. Thank you very much. Hopefully you'll do more.
Everytime I watch this channel makes me want to get a visa just to personally visit you there in the U.K. & thank you for being an inspiration to me & the rest of the aspiring musicians out there. Keep safe and God bless you!
Tony I would die to work with a keys man like you..you are nothing less than a God. keep up the great vids dude! And OMG what a keyboard the Fantom is! Love the 3 part layer of piano styrings and rotary organ ..gorgeous!
You are a very clear to understand and organized speaker. Thank you. Some targeted camera work of what you were talking about or pressing would have been a huge bonus.
Very cool video, thanks Tony! If you were in the USA I would head down and buy one today. You have done and excellent job of hitting the basics and would love to see you do a follow-up video showing how to use the drum system and building a song! thanks so much for creating this vid!
I liked the video, but thought I should mention that yes, OLD Yamaha's had voices and performances, but since Montage everything is performance. Same setup as the scenes at Fantom.
By far the best demo shown on this keyboard and all the other sounds as well. This makes my decision alot easier on what to get next. Thank you so much :)
Hi, great vídeo! Congras! It would be great to have a comparisson between Roland Fantom 8 and the new Korg PA5x 88 ;) I'm in the fence which one should I buy! I'm very bad at programing, so I want something simple with great sounds ready to use! Thanks :)
I would like your assistance if you are so kind...First of all, excuse me "my English", I am not a native English speaker... I am in a dilemma about whether to buy a KORG PA5X or a ROLAND FANTOM 0... I would like to know if the ROLAND FANTOM has the capability that the KORG PA series does have, which is to LOAD A SONG and SEPARATE IT by tracks; this greatly facilitates song editing. I assume that the ROLAND models would also have that very IMPORTANT capability... but I have not seen any mention in the many videos I watched about the FANTOM regarding that capability. Thank you so much, in advance...
Thank you for the video. Would you please be so kind enough as to consider doing a review of the Roland Fantom 2019? It's not just a workstation, but I believe a fully fledged synthesizer. To celebrate their 50th anniversary, they've added a new wavetable engine to the keyboard. I really like it. Thank you!
Is this easier to use than Yamaha Montage? I never used a synthesizer. Only piano and organ. Also second question, which has better pianos and organs sounds? Looking at Yamaha PSR SX900 , Montage and Roland Fantom.
in case you didn't know it's because of your playing skills & editing knowledge would make me buy the Roland Fantom, thank you! P.S. You and Luke Edward's have great taste in music. And you both love the Iron Eagle sound track love it! 🙂❤
I have a Fantom 8 and although there is a significant learning curve, the excellent keyboard action and the ability to craft our own unique sounds make the keyboard well worth the price of admission. The main downside is that this is a very large and heavy keyboard so unless you have roadies to handle your gear, or you are a YOUNG, avid bodybuilder with a full size SUV to transport this in you wouldn't want to gig with this. I also have the RD-2000 and although it is significantly lighter and smaller, it is still a handful for one person to carry.
What lighter keyboard would you gig with? I have the RD800 and while it's great it's so heavy! I'd like to get something lighter to take to gig practises.
26:32 i was also tricked to save my effect on 1 zone as i was only saving the scene, not the tone, and losing my changes... but it was before I watched your video, thank you, very helpful!!!
Great video. Just what I wanted. Still can't afford one. Would you take an electric drill and a broken M1 as trade in? I'd need at least £2500 for both.
Think its already out there, don't think the base sounds is any different from the Integra. Sounds pretty familiar to me, but I might be wrong. I aint a Roland user currently, but I doubt Roland has changed strategics lately. They normally rely on a sound generation for sbout a decade
What is it mounted on? A spring? This one mode "scene mode" is this like the Jupiter X where you are always attached to a scene? I asked this on another video and they said no but now you are telling me it is. I have one coming today and I got rid of a jupiter X because of this. Its not what i want. I want a performance type memory for sure for creating 16 part tunes but i also just want it in a type of patch play mode where a scene isnt affecting the sound im creating at all. The JPX was tedious to use and you would create a tone in part mode, and then use it in a different scene and it would be modified by that scene. Am i making another mistake with this keyboard?
Maple Green montage can morph between the motif synth and the Yamaha DX Kronos has the 9 discrete synth engines similar to oasys So far, I’m aware that Fantom has the v-piano engine from the Roland flagship pianos
Look Korg Kronos: 9 Engines for each sound,Sampler( Can do about anything you want) Yamaha Montage: Pure Analog Circuit, FM Synthesis,Sampler (Can do about anything you want) Roland New Fantom: (Drum Pads, Very good Midi intergration has no sampler but can do much more( Can do anything you want) It’s all about YOU!!!!!! Cause I will tell you one thing every one is biased get your ass up and go try a board for yourself and at the end of the day you won’t even use all the features these top boards are offering cause I don’t with my Montage 8
that string riff sounded familiar. couldn't remember the song, though. remembered hearing it in a movie, but couldn't remember the name. remembered that louis gosset jr. was in it, though. googled him to see what movies he was in. iron eagle was it. looked up the iron eagle soundtrack. saw "one vision" in there. ah, that was it. sometimes the internet really is awesome.
Would like to see a comparison of the Fantom 8 to the fantom X8 fir functions, saving creations and how to find by letter - number - name orders. What is new and different , what is lacking, can you copy patches to usb thumb drive and use them from there, ect. No one has done this yet and i am sure there are many out there who want to know.
The Fantom x8 is soooo outdated. A comparison with the Roland Fa- series will be better. I have owners the Fantom X8, and The Fa-08 as well. The X8 is not worthy.
Great video! You explained that the Fantom has just one mode called a Scene mode, but then you showed us that it also has a Single Tone mode. It seems that Scene mode is the equivalent of a typical performance mode on another keyboard, and Single Tone mode is like the typical voice mode. Is there a multitimbral mode such that 16 (or more) different sounds can be controlled separately via MIDI channels or is this done via Scene mode as well? Also, can all of the tones be edited or do you have to save them into user slots? If the latter, how many user slots are there for tones? Thank you so much in advance for any answers you can offer!
Just like my Fantom G I hate that the scene does not save any editing I do to the individual sounds. My Yamaha Modx does save all edits to there scene which I just love. Does the Fantom still have performance editing?
Fantastic...was getting so tired of DAW this DAW that and fiddling with envelope knobs etc reviews of the Fantom...YAWN...there are suprisingly live gigging keyboardists out there that want to use it for what it was built for LIVE PLAYING and see it real world usage and not bedroom hero looping and knob twidling...Thank You. PS...knowone can seem to answer this ...will it read SMF or SVQ files??? And does it have a proper full blown Sampler...not a pretend one like the FA series????
Tony, quick question. How is the action compared to a FA08? Is it as weighted or Is it more similar to a FA07? Also, how is the action on the RD88 compare?
So much better than the official demos where the all say the same talking points. I use my synth for live stage playing so this is just way I wanted to see. Definitely better than my FA06, but I think I'll keep that for a while longer
Thank you very much for a right to the point video! Would you please tell what kind of speaker/subwoofer system you had the Fantom connected to in your video? It sounds fantastic even on UA-cam!
Tony, your videos meet my needs better than anybody else's out there. Yours are more practical, and you took the time to figure it out beforehand instead of just stumbling around trying to be the first vendor to post. Thanks, Tony!
Most the people making those videos aren't actually selling the product, they just review so it's more about UA-cam views to them. For Tony it's to help sell units or at least get people into his store so he takes more time to give great detailed demonstrations.
Tony, I always wait with anticipation for your videos. Your retail sales ability and gigging experience make them so much more meaningful to me personally. I was the GM of Technics in the US before Panasonic closed us. I would have loved to have someone like you on my national staff. Congratulations on another brilliant video and thanks for making the instrument and it's features relevant. Cheers.
Wow what a superb demo! Beautifully filmed!
You have a quality of showing things very fast and still
remain very understandable! Chapeau!
Adri from Holland
A good demo indeed, but not beautiful filmed. It’s is overexposed.
As usual, your reviews are absolutely the best out there, no only because of your concise explanations, and enthusiasm, but also your skill as a player.....I always look forward to them whenever there is a new keyboard out there, as you manage to cut to the chase so much better than other reviewers....Thank you, once again!
Just what I was looking for...a musician that speaks "Gigology"!! Thank you Tony!
exactly the info I've been looking for as I use the Fantom G8 live. No other demo shows what you did and I watched them all. Thank you very much. Hopefully you'll do more.
Everytime I watch this channel makes me want to get a visa just to personally visit you there in the U.K. & thank you for being an inspiration to me & the rest of the aspiring musicians out there. Keep safe and God bless you!
Démonstration toujours aussi humble et très complète. Le but unique de Tony est toujours de nous informer correctement. MERCI 🙏
Easy to work with. Maybe would upgrade someday, but gonna stick with my FA-06 for now. Still kicks ass!
Tony I would die to work with a keys man like you..you are nothing less than a God. keep up the great vids dude! And OMG what a keyboard the Fantom is! Love the 3 part layer of piano styrings and rotary organ ..gorgeous!
I wish you would do a full in depth tutorial on getting the best out of this workstation because your teaching style is so good.
This is the best tutorial I've seen till now. Great job 👍👍👍
Good demo ! Different from others and more suited to what I need to know as a live player this is shaping up to be a great unit!
You are a very clear to understand and organized speaker. Thank you. Some targeted camera work of what you were talking about or pressing would have been a huge bonus.
One Of The Best Demo's Of This Yet Well Done Mate
The worst thing about this video is that I found out how near your shop is.
My wallet is screaming.
SCREAMING!
Great demo as always from you 👍
5:40 the lead sound reminds me to the lead sound from Indonesia 1980's great keyboardist Yockie Suryoprayogo.
5:40 the lead sound reminds me to sound from great keyboardist of Indonesia Yockie Suryoprayogo (passed away in February 2018).
Finally a video of the new fantom showing the other side of sounds and functionality. Thank you so much.
Very cool video, thanks Tony! If you were in the USA I would head down and buy one today. You have done and excellent job of hitting the basics and would love to see you do a follow-up video showing how to use the drum system and building a song! thanks so much for creating this vid!
Why haven't I seen your video since. Wow. Best recommendation from UA-cam
You’re one of the best instructors man. Good to find your channel! I’d just buy mine 76’s and it’s on the way.
Superb presentation Tony.... as usual!
Great demo! You sold me this will be my next keyboard purchase!
Very thorough review as usual. Thank you!!
I liked the video, but thought I should mention that yes, OLD Yamaha's had voices and performances, but since Montage everything is performance. Same setup as the scenes at Fantom.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻..... thank’s cause I’ve been waiting for this Fantom video👍🏻
By far the best demo shown on this keyboard and all the other sounds as well. This makes my decision alot easier on what to get next. Thank you so much :)
What is the name of the sound of synth lead do you use at 5:24 minutes pleased ?
Super great video could not figure out how to use my keyboard till I watched this
A really good introduction with this Fantom !!! Thank you !!
Good morning Tony, I had been waiting patiently for your video,Thanks you're the best⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Very good video ... thank you so much for the clear overview of Fantom!!
Hi, great vídeo! Congras! It would be great to have a comparisson between Roland Fantom 8 and the new Korg PA5x 88 ;) I'm in the fence which one should I buy! I'm very bad at programing, so I want something simple with great sounds ready to use! Thanks :)
Could you please let us know any upcoming arranger keyboards from Roland?
I would like your assistance if you are so kind...First of all, excuse me "my English", I am not a native English speaker...
I am in a dilemma about whether to buy a KORG PA5X or a ROLAND FANTOM 0... I would like to know if the ROLAND FANTOM has the capability that the KORG PA series does have, which is to LOAD A SONG and SEPARATE IT by tracks; this greatly facilitates song editing. I assume that the ROLAND models would also have that very IMPORTANT capability... but I have not seen any mention in the many videos I watched about the FANTOM regarding that capability.
Thank you so much, in advance...
Excellent teachings dear you're owesome.....🫡💐👍👌👏💐
Tony...You make some good videos !! Keep on playing !!
Thank you very much, this video is a huge help!
I hope there will be many more.
Watching from the other side of the pound. Great demos!!
Thank you for the video. Would you please be so kind enough as to consider doing a review of the Roland Fantom 2019? It's not just a workstation, but I believe a fully fledged synthesizer. To celebrate their 50th anniversary, they've added a new wavetable engine to the keyboard. I really like it. Thank you!
Is this easier to use than Yamaha Montage?
I never used a synthesizer. Only piano and organ.
Also second question, which has better pianos and organs sounds? Looking at Yamaha PSR SX900 , Montage and Roland Fantom.
No mention of the missing drawbars?
Whats the brass sound on 2:20
Nice brass, nice clav too
in case you didn't know it's because of your playing skills & editing knowledge would make me buy the Roland Fantom, thank you! P.S. You and Luke Edward's have great taste in music. And you both love the Iron Eagle sound track love it! 🙂❤
I have a Fantom 8 and although there is a significant learning curve, the excellent keyboard action and the ability to craft our own unique sounds make the keyboard well worth the price of admission. The main downside is that this is a very large and heavy keyboard so unless you have roadies to handle your gear, or you are a YOUNG, avid bodybuilder with a full size SUV to transport this in you wouldn't want to gig with this. I also have the RD-2000 and although it is significantly lighter and smaller, it is still a handful for one person to carry.
What lighter keyboard would you gig with? I have the RD800 and while it's great it's so heavy! I'd like to get something lighter to take to gig practises.
26:32 i was also tricked to save my effect on 1 zone as i was only saving the scene, not the tone, and losing my changes... but it was before I watched your video, thank you, very helpful!!!
Hi, can i connect my Bluetooth wireless headset to the phantom ? I don’t want to wake-up anybody at night.
No.
Great video. Just what I wanted. Still can't afford one. Would you take an electric drill and a broken M1 as trade in? I'd need at least £2500 for both.
Tony, how do you stop the sustain pedal from wondering away while your playing live?
Thank you, Tony for so awesome playing - enjoy it.
I wonder if Roland is coming with a sound module version of this.
Think its already out there, don't think the base sounds is any different from the Integra. Sounds pretty familiar to me, but I might be wrong. I aint a Roland user currently, but I doubt Roland has changed strategics lately. They normally rely on a sound generation for sbout a decade
mrdali67 I wish it had Integra sounds... so far everything I’ve heard sounds like 8080 sounds still at best!
What is it mounted on? A spring? This one mode "scene mode" is this like the Jupiter X where you are always attached to a scene? I asked this on another video and they said no but now you are telling me it is. I have one coming today and I got rid of a jupiter X because of this. Its not what i want. I want a performance type memory for sure for creating 16 part tunes but i also just want it in a type of patch play mode where a scene isnt affecting the sound im creating at all. The JPX was tedious to use and you would create a tone in part mode, and then use it in a different scene and it would be modified by that scene. Am i making another mistake with this keyboard?
Wow, the singer from Level 42 can play keyboards too! : )
Seriously, this showcase is awesome.
Do anyone know if the classic mks 20 pianos will be included in this like they are in the Rd 2000
I am curious to know your opinion about comparing Yamaha Montage VS Roland Fantom VS Korg Kronos
Maple Green montage can morph between the motif synth and the Yamaha DX
Kronos has the 9 discrete synth engines similar to oasys
So far, I’m aware that Fantom has the v-piano engine from the Roland flagship pianos
Look Korg Kronos: 9 Engines for each sound,Sampler( Can do about anything you want)
Yamaha Montage: Pure Analog Circuit, FM Synthesis,Sampler (Can do about anything you want)
Roland New Fantom: (Drum Pads, Very good Midi intergration has no sampler but can do much more( Can do anything you want)
It’s all about YOU!!!!!! Cause I will tell you one thing every one is biased get your ass up and go try a board for yourself and at the end of the day you won’t even use all the features these top boards are offering cause I don’t with my Montage 8
in acoustic children what is the best ghost or montage? I see that the sounds of the fantom are very similar to what I already have in Integra 7.
Very useful video. Wish there were more like this!
Show us some useful sounds for live! Like a full on brass section & sax. My band has a bass player
Sir, How is the EX better than the 07? And is it worth the higher price?
Tony will you be making more Fantom demos..?
One Vision sound track of Iron Eagle movie love it! 🙂❤ Bravo!
that string riff sounded familiar. couldn't remember the song, though. remembered hearing it in a movie, but couldn't remember the name. remembered that louis gosset jr. was in it, though. googled him to see what movies he was in. iron eagle was it. looked up the iron eagle soundtrack. saw "one vision" in there. ah, that was it. sometimes the internet really is awesome.
Can anybody tell me how many sounds in this keyboard?
Would like to see a comparison of the Fantom 8 to the fantom X8 fir functions, saving creations and how to find by letter - number - name orders. What is new and different , what is lacking, can you copy patches to usb thumb drive and use them from there, ect. No one has done this yet and i am sure there are many out there who want to know.
The Fantom x8 is soooo outdated. A comparison with the Roland Fa- series will be better. I have owners the Fantom X8, and The Fa-08 as well. The X8 is not worthy.
You should do your on video series on the things that can be done on the fantom
Great video! You explained that the Fantom has just one mode called a Scene mode, but then you showed us that it also has a Single Tone mode. It seems that Scene mode is the equivalent of a typical performance mode on another keyboard, and Single Tone mode is like the typical voice mode. Is there a multitimbral mode such that 16 (or more) different sounds can be controlled separately via MIDI channels or is this done via Scene mode as well? Also, can all of the tones be edited or do you have to save them into user slots? If the latter, how many user slots are there for tones? Thank you so much in advance for any answers you can offer!
FYI, I got my answer (yes) on 16-part multitimbral. :)
over 2000 user slots
I learned more about it by you. Wish knowledgeable persons in my city, NC USA.
Just like my Fantom G I hate that the scene does not save any editing I do to the individual sounds. My Yamaha Modx does save all edits to there scene which I just love. Does the Fantom still have performance editing?
mattsynth this is the reason i have yet to mess with editing sounds on a pattern or song I’m working on lol
Every Tone, Zone, and Scene on the Roland Fantom is fully editable. Both internal and external controls can be saved to each scene
Dear Tony, Witch pedal do you using?
Are we going to be able to load projects from older fantom?
Finally, a decent review!
does this model have the same brushed finish like the other Roland models ? It looks flat black to me .
Fantastic...was getting so tired of DAW this DAW that and fiddling with envelope knobs etc reviews of the Fantom...YAWN...there are suprisingly live gigging keyboardists out there that want to use it for what it was built for LIVE PLAYING and see it real world usage and not bedroom hero looping and knob twidling...Thank You. PS...knowone can seem to answer this ...will it read SMF or SVQ files??? And does it have a proper full blown Sampler...not a pretend one like the FA series????
Just Aname it has a pretend one like the FA series unfortunately.
Fantastic keyboard. Can’t wait to get one.
This was really helpful, thank you!
Extremely helpful, thanks!
I love your playing i must say.
How it compares with korg keyboard,?
Thx! Are there realistic Guitar sounds? Or supernatural sound engine?
how does it compare to Yamaha Montage?
Tony, quick question. How is the action compared to a FA08? Is it as weighted or Is it more similar to a FA07? Also, how is the action on the RD88 compare?
Que calidad de sonido congratulacion 🎉
16 way split? also, is it the exact organ engine as in the vr-730?
does the Phantom 8 work with Ableton 9?
YOU. ROCK THAT WAH CLAV. LIKE. INSANE AWESOME.
So much better than the official demos where the all say the same talking points. I use my synth for live stage playing so this is just way I wanted to see. Definitely better than my FA06, but I think I'll keep that for a while longer
4:38 Knew exactly what that was gonna be just from the bass at the start. Made my arm hairs stand on end.
Hi Tony,
Can the sampler record from an external audio input while the sequencer is playing
Sir which is better yamaha montage or that roland fantom?
Montage
Jim Pittman agree completely.
INSANELY AWESOME. THANKS.
You're amazing!! Thank you
I have heard the keys are really noisy, is that true ?
It's time to new arranger keyboard Roland!!!
Roland and K... always use too much reverb in their patches. I wonder if this has half-damper capability? I find that to be expressive.
Thank you very much for a right to the point video!
Would you please tell what kind of speaker/subwoofer system you had the Fantom connected to in your video?
It sounds fantastic even on UA-cam!
Hmmm, I gotta buy one of these. Now I need to figure out how long I can go without eating.
Very nice Rolland for the band also if the keyboard comes with 76 that will be more beneficial I don't think it comes with styles or Rhythms
well done and informative plus a great performance ; )