Roland FANTOM - Introduction to Arpeggios 

Did you ever get a reply from Roland?

Yes Arp. Is King I agree with you, you get it

@@LouisTorres-ut4ks Thanks for the comment, almost forgot how powerful the arps are on this workstation.

​@@Wulfcryyour welcome buddy

one for zone there's

@@alexmax9832 ???

1. Ability to import user midi snips - I would expect this is already supported, as this is already on older FA's

@@dipankarmitra2008 Exactly ! I am disappointed ! Neither Fantom nor Fantom-0 got this feature, present in the FA-0 series (2014) !! Not acceptable for such a station !!!

thank you! I'm surprised that Ed failed to mention that salient fact.....

Svend Gunnar Bruun thats what ive been asking and no ones telling me how hehe i can customize arps using my modx but this one i dont know

Don't you dare mention the competition! Yes, but i agree. I am really disappointed with the argeggiator features. Seemsthet the developers were busy implementing other cool stuff when the fundamentals of designing basic arpeggiator functionality fell short.

Yes...its so similar to an FA....and its nowhere close to being as good as a Fantom X or G...its very dissapointing...A fail as a Workstation....it wont even load a Standard Midi File (SMF) Or allow you to create a Sampled patch to the keyboard or even a sampled Drum Kit patch

Well spotted. Probably something that will be fixed in a future update

And most of them are better too. Yamaha's arps are far more useful. Rolands are pointless. But besides that I love my old Fantom...

No

@@alexmax9832 I have a fantom, you can assign the arp to all 16 parts except its the same ARP across all parts, as far as i can see you cannot assign a different ARP to each part.

@@scottl926 I work with sequencer, no problem. Only sequencer

@audiotone but you are a troll, I see you scan all the new Fantom videos to write your little negative digs at it, I'm only stating things that can be improved in future, if you owned one though you'd know its a great sounding instrument even not fully developed.

@audiotone you're full of it... no fanboy here, I own Kurzweil, Yamaha and have owned Kronos which got sold last year.

So did Roland ever respond to your request?

@@ricomajestic still waiting for a response from Roland :D In the meantime, I have connected another Synthesizer vía MIDI which I am playing. This kind of defeats the original purpose of buying the Fantom, but I am living with that for now.

I am in the market for a Fantom 8 but now that I have read your review I am teeter tottering between this and the Kronos. Can I load samples into the Kronos??

Kronos was an extremely expensive (at the time) consolidation of the Oasys platform. A workstation, in the vein to which they used to exist - no longer does. There is zero interest in such a product. Both from serious professional consumers (performance artists) and the brands/manufacturers themselves. A part of it is cost and redundancy. These days things are rapidly replaced and upgraded. They seem like minor leaps at times but architecturally speaking they aren't. What you think is 'more of the same' has to be made compliant and brought up to date with new technology. Also - 10 years could well be the redundancy period for musical artists themselves. So what one band needed - fades with them. A new artist appears - and if they want similar capability but with a more modern feature set; that is what is produced. Because companies must make money. If what you said really rang true - the company would be bankrupt. I assume you realize that. Personal preference isn't the same as fact and company net profit. Due to the shift in market (user net total) it's unlikely any company will waste their time with a cutting edge workstation. Because it won't be likely to last 10 years as they once did. And the RnD for a product that stays valid; next to people simply using VSTs and easily upgraded (cheaper) controllers - just isn't worth it. Say for example that I spend the time on a linear well designed sequencer. Charge a fair amount for it. Why bother? If I can rely on customers preferring their DAW and other tools. So you see how the world has changed. It's more affordable to use things in a customizable and more modular fashion (meaning you waste less of your money on features YOU might not want in a giant device). The workstation concept has become redundant. Because in truth, to give a great keybed. Great interface/hands on control. Great filters. Great build.... you get the idea. All in one unit. Will end up costing people 5 grand+. That will make many people, even stage artists think twice. Why? Because although they can afford; there is still the issue of weight. And much more. It's simply easier to carry a controller board, with laptop and supporting software. It used to be that people were too scared to rely on computers in a live scenario. Slowly IPAD became more common. A long with laptops for better poly/sample etc. In time there will be no need for workstations. I know. It's sad and I like them too. But the cost vs redundancy is much too prohibitive. You will see more devices such as MPC and FANTOM. Where the board becomes a 'hub' for all your other hard/soft ware. Thats simply a easier to update and more profitable platform.

Yes.

This is a demonstration of how you use the Fantom. It is not a course on arpeggio, when or how to use it, you clearly already know that. Using simple sounds like this is honestly better for demonstration too.

@@zapador I'm not asking for a lesson on arpeggios, i'm asking to Roland if they plan to do a proper demonstration of real ingame arpeggios of their beast ?