For me the problem is that you cannot easily manage the other sound/tone packs. Would have been nice if they could also be labeled somehow on the "bank" section to it'd relating or custom sdz pack name..
There would be an unmanageable number of banks if they made banks for the sdz now @48+ . Some people might only want to import one tone from the sdz file, and you can change the name(s) to reference the sdz #.
I have the MODX, Fantom 6, PC3K6/K2500s...they are all smokin’ workstation/synths...the Kurz blows them out of the water though if you like to actually program a synth and it ain’t got squat for gigabyte this or that Omnisphere is the king of soft synths without question but it’s married to a computer...too bad it’s not hardware BTW- Fantom kicks MAJOR ass and is super sexy. I sold all my one trick ponies for that gorgeous workstation and couldn’t be in a happier place.
Great video. Thank you for the clear tutorials. Can you do a video showing how to connect a condenser (or dynamic) mic to the Fantom using the onboard Audio Interface? Then show what you can do on the Fantom with a mic connected. The manuals and supplementary manual are a little scarce about this topic. Thank you.
Can you please add an option to save the tone settings with the scenes? Its kind of a pain to tweak everything, then have to save every tone separately for that scene. Makes the user patch space cluttered as all hell for what are otherwise minor variations to tones. God forbid i accidentally tweak a patch later and ruin a previous song i had used it in.
Please include subtitles in Russian for the entire Roland Fantom video series. I own this beautiful Roland Fantom 8 machine. And a very long time customer and user of the Roland & Boss brand. The market of your Russian-speaking client will be absolutely grateful and glad for such support.
Do you really think that 2GB of RAM are enough in this day and age? My Fantom G6 has 1GB. Yamaha XF has 2GB. The Kronos can stream as much as your SSD can address with 76 characters Filepathlenght (lol). Can Roland, Korg and Yamaha create anything that can't be blown out of the water by a modern Mac or PC? 3000€ for this limited #€&*@ thats made from the cheapest possible jnternal components?
When you customize and save a tone, it only saves the "data" which is barely in kilobytes like 10 KB. When you download 100 tones, it results in a 1 MB file. 2 GB can store up to 200,000 tones. Fantom has the best audio interface. Why do you think you know better than all the qualified and experienced engineers at Roland? www.mobilemusic.us/articles/hardware/267-roland-fantom-flagship-workstation-synthesizer
The Fantom does not use 2 GB of RAM. This is a major flaw that has been in keyboards for a long time. Adding samples to RAM increases the needed boot time which is a hindrance to creativity and accessibility of a keyboard player. The Fantom has 2 GB of Flash memory to store user and expansion wave forms and an additional 1.75 GB of memory to store pad samples. So in total that is 3.75 GB when you look at it. This is the most amount of space in a keyboard other than the Kurzweil Forte which has 3.3 GB of memory. Below that is the Kronos with 2GB of sampling memory (RAM not Flash) and then the Yamaha Montage with 1.75 GB (Flash) memory. The main difference between these boards is that the Kronos uses a custom linux OS from the much older OASYS with a few new engines. This has advantages such as being able to load huge sample libraries into an external storage like an SSD. But there is a significant drop in sampling memory when loading these huge files and adding to that, the boot time increases. Also despite being a workstation, the usability of the Kronos is complicated making the workstation name a bit useless. But it has a great palette of sound engines. No keyboard company wants to compete with a MAC or Windows machine as they have a totally different purpose. VST's are meant for a studio environment with the sound quality given more importance than reliability compared to a hardware synthesizer. Hardware synthesizers provide great sounds with excellent DAC's and great reliability in a live situation whereas VSTs despite may having a better sound generation system may fail you in a live situation due to the fact the OS that it is running on has not been optimized for tone generation and continuous CPU load. Of course there are people who use a full software rig and say they haven't encountered a single problem. Well what happens when Apple or Microsoft releases an update and you have a gig the following night or day and your software suddenly becomes suddenly unreliable. The Fantom gets rid of this by giving you the option to integrate its own sound engines with your own VSTs so the load on your laptop is less giving you a bit more reliability from your computer. This is an invaluable tool for a performing artist.
You are a God send to many of us....Thankyou for all you do!
ROLAND PLEASE I NEED THE SUPERNATURAL DRUMS IN THE FANTOM
For me the problem is that you cannot easily manage the other sound/tone packs. Would have been nice if they could also be labeled somehow on the "bank" section to it'd relating or custom sdz pack name..
There would be an unmanageable number of banks if they made banks for the sdz now @48+
. Some people might only want to import one tone from the sdz file, and you can change the name(s) to reference the sdz #.
I have the MODX, Fantom 6, PC3K6/K2500s...they are all smokin’ workstation/synths...the Kurz blows them out of the water though if you like to actually program a synth and it ain’t got squat for gigabyte this or that
Omnisphere is the king of soft synths without question but it’s married to a computer...too bad it’s not hardware
BTW- Fantom kicks MAJOR ass and is super sexy. I sold all my one trick ponies for that gorgeous workstation and couldn’t be in a happier place.
Great video. Thank you for the clear tutorials. Can you do a video showing how to connect a condenser (or dynamic) mic to the Fantom using the onboard Audio Interface? Then show what you can do on the Fantom with a mic connected. The manuals and supplementary manual are a little scarce about this topic. Thank you.
Can you please add an option to save the tone settings with the scenes? Its kind of a pain to tweak everything, then have to save every tone separately for that scene. Makes the user patch space cluttered as all hell for what are otherwise minor variations to tones. God forbid i accidentally tweak a patch later and ruin a previous song i had used it in.
I’ve been looking up sounds the hard way🤦♂️. It would be good to filter by number of stars. Hard to know which ones I haven’t auditioned otherwise.
Please include subtitles in Russian for the entire Roland Fantom video series. I own this beautiful Roland Fantom 8 machine. And a very long time customer and user of the Roland & Boss brand. The market of your Russian-speaking client will be absolutely grateful and glad for such support.
Do you really think that 2GB of RAM are enough in this day and age? My Fantom G6 has 1GB. Yamaha XF has 2GB. The Kronos can stream as much as your SSD can address with 76 characters Filepathlenght (lol). Can Roland, Korg and Yamaha create anything that can't be blown out of the water by a modern Mac or PC? 3000€ for this limited #€&*@ thats made from the cheapest possible jnternal components?
Everything has tradeoffs and strategic advantages.
When you customize and save a tone, it only saves the "data" which is barely in kilobytes like 10 KB. When you download 100 tones, it results in a 1 MB file. 2 GB can store up to 200,000 tones. Fantom has the best audio interface. Why do you think you know better than all the qualified and experienced engineers at Roland?
www.mobilemusic.us/articles/hardware/267-roland-fantom-flagship-workstation-synthesizer
The Fantom does not use 2 GB of RAM. This is a major flaw that has been in keyboards for a long time. Adding samples to RAM increases the needed boot time which is a hindrance to creativity and accessibility of a keyboard player. The Fantom has 2 GB of Flash memory to store user and expansion wave forms and an additional 1.75 GB of memory to store pad samples. So in total that is 3.75 GB when you look at it. This is the most amount of space in a keyboard other than the Kurzweil Forte which has 3.3 GB of memory. Below that is the Kronos with 2GB of sampling memory (RAM not Flash) and then the Yamaha Montage with 1.75 GB (Flash) memory. The main difference between these boards is that the Kronos uses a custom linux OS from the much older OASYS with a few new engines. This has advantages such as being able to load huge sample libraries into an external storage like an SSD. But there is a significant drop in sampling memory when loading these huge files and adding to that, the boot time increases. Also despite being a workstation, the usability of the Kronos is complicated making the workstation name a bit useless. But it has a great palette of sound engines. No keyboard company wants to compete with a MAC or Windows machine as they have a totally different purpose. VST's are meant for a studio environment with the sound quality given more importance than reliability compared to a hardware synthesizer. Hardware synthesizers provide great sounds with excellent DAC's and great reliability in a live situation whereas VSTs despite may having a better sound generation system may fail you in a live situation due to the fact the OS that it is running on has not been optimized for tone generation and continuous CPU load. Of course there are people who use a full software rig and say they haven't encountered a single problem. Well what happens when Apple or Microsoft releases an update and you have a gig the following night or day and your software suddenly becomes suddenly unreliable. The Fantom gets rid of this by giving you the option to integrate its own sound engines with your own VSTs so the load on your laptop is less giving you a bit more reliability from your computer. This is an invaluable tool for a performing artist.
@@ablesam I e started going with outboard synths just for this reason... No crashes 😏🎶