Planet V: giant new sound expansion library for Roland Fanto

Tim, I do not yet know what it will take to convert these libraries. We'll see, I think they will be made compatible.

Artemio,

I just ordered the Planet Mega Pack. The work you have done is simply AMAZING!! With this and the Tweak Book I purchased last week - now I have TWO copies of the Tweak Book - I am a happy person!

I think I underestimated the synthesis possibilities of the FX and your work has proven that I have done just that!!

So once again THANK YOU for this great collection, the Tweakbook, and this great community.

Best to you,
Vlad

Vlad, thank you *so* much! Please enjoy the sounds, I sincerely hope they will help you explore the world of sounds and music even more deeply.

Hey Artemio,
I just recently bought a Fantom X6 and would like to expand the number of sounds available.
Does the Fantom MegaPack offer a lot of the sounds found on the SRX boards? I was looking into buying the SRX-12, but if the MegaPack does the same thing and more, I'll buy it instead.
Any advice for someone that's new at this game would be appreciated.

Cheers.

Planet V pack for the fantom is calling my name. I love the synthline patches under user patches d/l.

The tweak pack from vol 4 is decent. the trance saw is nice. Obvious many others are quality sounding.

But make no mistake the Andromeda sound patches are just off the hook for trance lovers. Regards to my personal taste thats all.

If your new to the game go d/l some user patches it took me a minute to figure out how to install. Also look up xv5080 patches great sounding stuff. FREE!

Thanks, poot_nanny.
Where would I download user patches from for free? Any ideas?

Cheers!

http://rolandclan.info/en/materials/fantom-s-fantom-x/

If you have a compact flash reader just make you a folder labeled
whatever patch your downloading, load the new folder into roland snd under the + tab of the G drive. then when d/l patch make sure it's labeled fan.svd .

it took me a while to figure all this out. But it's my first synth workstatio

Eric Nocholas:

Planet V and all of my other libraries deliver sounds you will not find anywhere else, this is very original material.

Agrees your sounds are good.

Just trying to give the guy a direction to go for listening to some new sounds, patches, with out having to commit to any extra money at the moment.

I find it a pain in the ass having to turn off on my synth to load new sounds from the card before it takes effect. unless im doing something wrong.

poot_nanny:

Seems like you missed something in the instructions. To load Planet V off the card, you just need to eject and re-insert the card, then choose "load all samples", that's it. No power off/on needed.

Thanks for the link, poot_nanny. Much appreciated.

And, Artemio, I'll be getting in touch with you one of these days about buying Planet V. Cheers.

Sure Eric, feel free to write and ask me any questions.

[WARNING! Please be advised you are about to encounter an undereducated (read: lazy) Fantom X8 user who has barely scratched the surface of the X8's capabilities and hardly uses it because (besides the 3 kids, the house, and the job) the machine decided to get back at him for neglect by malfunctioning about a year ago and now will not record and the pads won't play rhythms! Proceed at your own risk to your mental health!]

Artemiy,

Just picked up Planet F, V, and X libraries (and Tweakbook). Very cool!

I installed them according to the instructions--I think. In other words, how do I tell if I did it right?

For the F and X downloads, I used the "MIDI" file option and my user samples and songs remained intact. I believe I loaded the V download as directed by removing and reinstalling the card without powering off/on.

Here's what I see:

*In the PATCH LIST screen, there are new patches in many of the instrument/sound categories. For example, in the "SOFT PAD" section, it looks like this: "CARD:071 Padshine (SPD)"

*In the SAMPLE LIST screen, in the CARD list, the samples go from "C0001" to "C1022."

Does that sound like everything is where it should be for all 3 of your libraries?

Thanks!

P.S. By the way, your "Padshine" patch was perfect for a song I'm working on and sounds great! Even though I did pay for it, I am still in your debt for creating just what I needed!

Yes, seems like Planet V is installed correctly. But for Planet X and Planet F, you will need to use the Librarian to put them both into the user area (and you can only put 256 sounds out of the total 280).

Artemiy,

This is very frustrating; let me see if I can make this clear:

*The Planet F and X instructions state to connect the Fantom via USB or MIDI. I do not have MIDI connections for my PC. Therefore, I connected the USB cable as the X8 manual indicates. (This is in itself frustrating because the Fantom now takes 5 minutes to start up after all the downloaded files from F, V, and X. Is this how long it's supposed to take?)

*The F & X instructions then state to "Enter the Librarian mode on your synthesizer" via "MENU-->Utility-->Librarian." I did that but that means you cannot go to "MENU-->USB Storage" and select "Internal" to connect the X8 and the PC. If you reverse the order and connect the X8 and PC as normal via USB, you cannot then use the MENU to put the X8 in Librarian mode.

*The Fantom Librarian manual (via a browser) states that, after connecting via USB and then launching the Librarian, you must do the following:

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When using the software for the first time, you must open the "Setup" menu item "Set Up MIDI Devices" to open the dialog box, and select "Roland Fantom-X" for the Fantom-X Input/Output setting.

* On the Fantom-X itself, go to "SYSTEM"-"USB" and set the USB Mode to "MIDI."
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Unfortunately, after clicking on "Set Up MIDI Devices," there is no "Roland Fantom-X" to select for the "Fantom-X Input/Output setting." For "Fantom-X" "Input" there is only the choice "MPU-401." For Output, there are only two choices: "MPU-401" again and "Microsoft GS Wavetable SW..."

Also, on the "Fantom-X itself," setting the "USB Mode to MIDI" does not help and doesn't make sense because I'm using USB...right?!

Thank you for helping me with this!