I can't believe the package of options the Fantom 6 gives me: for me, the ultmate organ editor, sequencer, and tone bank and syth in ONE. Buy of the century!!!
I originally thought the organ sounds were a bit weak..UNTIL I stumbled onto this video and learned something about the Fantom I didn't know existed..Thanks Ed!
Great video Ed. I own a real Hammond and a Hammond SKPro portable and your instruction videos are a great help and clearly explain how to get the best out of the Fantom 0. Regards🎶🎹
Tone Wheel organ is Bananas. The Leslie is great. I used the Fantom just recently for my set at the Long Beach Jazz Festival. It's on my page. Check it out. Great sound.
Great comment. I used to own Fa 08. The only issue and reason I sold it was that the key action was too stiff. Otherwise it was a great board. I’m considering buying the FANTOM 07 because I wouldn’t be able to trust the 08 Key action
I was so disappointed for the lack of this type of organs in my Fantom that I even had to use Kontakt to bring good hammond sounds, why are those only available in zone 2 ? Are there any other instruments working in a specific zone ?
Thanks, good info. I’d like to see more about the organ from user or players point of view. If I’m playing piano how do I quickly switch to organ? Can I put organ in a layer? Can I adjust drawbars if organ is in a layer?
In case anyone is readying, to answer my own question, it is very easy to blend organ with any other sound. Organ is in one zone (channel) and its fader and volume in or out the organ sound while other sounds are playing. Very easy.
Hlo sir can u please help me 🙏 When i play sitar or violine sound and change to piano the sound is just shake it why if u know sir please tell me please
I think you can edit the organ sounds deeper than on my VR-730. I'm amused that Roland and others have engineered in key clicks that Hammond worked hard to engineer out. 😆 Personally, I like some click on my organ sounds for certain songs.
@@chachaman4980 It depends on what you need. If you're playing in a classic rock band with a lot of Hammond organ sounds and doing palm glissandos and organ solos, Get the VR-730. Get the Fantom 0 if you're going to be editing synth sounds, making demos and multi track compositions, and / or performing primarily playing synth sounds. It will be the Better Buy, by far. Get the 08 if you need hammer action. It will give you much more expression with the pianos but it's not going to let you play as fast as synth action if you're into playing fast synth or organ solos. Prices in USA: Fantom 06 $1600, 07 $1900, 08 $2150 VR-730 $1900 Long answer: The 73 key keybed is made for palm glissandos and speed playing. It feels really good and responds fast. You can tweak the keyboard settings for the playing style you want on it. Extra light to extra heavy or fixed velocity. And I think there is a setting to enable or defeat the "stutter" organ effect. The keybed is ok for playing piano but not nearly as good as a triple sensor hammer action keybed. The VR-730 is not a workstation. No sequencer. Just a 20 second audio looper and some built in drum patterns to practice to. It does have 6 real time knobs for adding effects and 7 if you count the rotary speaker. The drawbars also serve as 5 synth controls. Attack, Decay, Release, Filter and Resonance. Small dot matrix LCD screen. However, there's an iPad app to edit the organ and synth sounds but you still have to manually save them on the VR itself as a "registration". iPad app only. No android version. Shame on Roland for that. As for the Fantom 0 series, It looks like it has a few more parameters than the VR for tweaking the organ sounds in the amp modeling area. I have no idea how the Fantom 06's 61 key and Fantom 07's 76 key keybeds feel, so I can't comment on that. I can comment on the feel of the Fantom 08's a PHA-4 Standard keybed as I have a Roland FP10 digital piano which uses the same keybed. It is a triple sensor keybed that feels pretty good but isn't very snappy at "bouncing back" for fast playing. In other words, you're not going to be playing Billy Joel's Angry Young Man on it. You will need the VR-730 for that. It does much more than the VR-730 because it's a workstation. And it's a newer design. On my wish list too. Note: I also have an FA-08 and It's Ivory Feel G keybed has a very slightly lighter feeling and bounce back than the PHA-4.
@@chachaman4980 I have the Fantom 07 and it's a synth action keybed -- nothing like my Casio Privia PX5s stiff piano action. I concur with the previous comments. The 0 series are contemporary music, production and gigging keyboards. The 07 is ultra lite and fits inside my Privia PX5s case. The drawbar organ is ok but if you're primarily a organist you'd probably should get a clone wheel board. I am impressed with this 0 series so far. It's pretty easy to navigate and set up patches for shows.
Can i ask this question here. Do i have to buy the model expansions (like JP8) if i'm an Ultimate cloud member. Thanks. All the videos are great. Much appreciated.
@@darkforestzero Thanks for the note. how do they validate access. My concern is that i have patches arranged at some remote gig in the country without internet access and i can't open some model because it can't be validated. Or i'm between some validation period and it can't be validated at the gig and i need to hook up to some system just to validate the sound (THE DAY OF OR DURING THE GIG). Does that make sense?
As soon as I turn on Percussion, the 1' drawbar stops working!!!! It looks to be working, but becomes inaudible! That does a real Hammond not do.... Why is it ????
Yeah they're 2 different effects. The percussion is a bell-like "pop" at the start of the note. The click is an electronic cracking sound. On both my Roland VR and Modx you can also add "key-off click" Which is yet another clicking effect. The "key-off" click, imitates the crackling effect you get when you lift your fingers off an old tonewheel organ. So, there are 3 different percussive effects... just to make things confusing. There's a woman who does a cover on RU-vid of Errol Garner's Misty. You can clearly hear her beautiful old Hammond crackle like my ankles on a winters morning.
