VOTING TIME: What Future ARX Boards Do You Want?

As I understood an ARX-board is like a second stand-alone synth, would it not be nice to have older synth versions available as ARX?

I would like an ARX for my good old JV-90 synth

But more likely:
1). A guitar ARX, because it's hard to copy a guitar at this moment with the G though it has exellent guitar sounds
2). An ARX to play more ethnical instruments including percussion (the ones that are on board of the G at this moment are not sufficient)

• 1-part SuperNatural B3 Organ with the G's sliders as drawbars
• 1-part virtual analog synth, with an engine neither with SH201 sound (cheap harsh low quality synth sound in my ears) nor V-Synth character (doesn’t really shine in the natural sounding VA department), but a dedicated VA coming close to Jupiter and Juno sound characteristics
• 16-part/128-voice ROM depository with a "Best-of-the-Missing-SRX-Waves" patches, along with the capacity to import older SRX patches. Could as well be a SRX-Sampler with no pre-sets but loadable SRX patches supplied as software (if necessary, with a decent fee as software download per patch or instrument, but with free choice from all 12 boards).
• Voice modeling board, similar to the VC-2 card

* Over acoustic guitars I would prefer a board comparable to Real Strat (strumming modes included like there). finally supplying you with a nice electric rhythm guitarist for many styles.

Oh...I overlooked the Voice Modeling Board...Hmmm...

We truly need 4 ARX Slots!

MadaHorn: that's what they're gonna make the Fantom-Z for!

Apart from that, I truly believe that a future Fantom-G rack version should include at least 4 ARX slots.

• 1-part virtual analog synth, with an engine similar to the VA portion of the V-Synth

• 16-part/128-voice ROM depository with really good acoustic piano patches

• 4-part FM synthesis board

I don't understand why they released Drums and Brass first...I mean the Electric Piano has it's eligibility but wasn't it more logical if eg. a VA Synth and a piano Board were released first?

greets

1-part radically scaled-down V-Piano engine

1-part virtual analog synth, with an engine similar to the VA portion of the V-Synth

that'll do it for me... but it was a tough choice between the VA and the V- Piano...

I'm wondering if they could (better yet, WOULD) make the SRX and JV/XP sounds downloadable for the G... that would make me very happy with the sound set...

• 3-part SuperNatural B3 Organ with the G's sliders as drawbars
• Voice modeling board, similar to the VC-2 card

Same as antom for me:

• 3-part SuperNatural B3 Organ with the G's sliders as drawbars
• Voice modeling board, similar to the VC-2 card

Plus:

• 1-part SuperNatural string ensemble with similar technology as the brass board

If only we had 3 ARX slots... =(

So I had taken a look at the VC-2 card once again, and man, what a great card this actually is! Now I'd fill my fantom G with the a VC-2 card and a 3-part organ B3 card. I'm imagining myself playing on a keytar midi'ed to the Fantom with the VC-2 card while singing into a mic, stealing the show from the guitar/singer.

My 4 MOST requested choices are:

• 1-part SuperNatural B3 Organ with the G's sliders as drawbars
• 1-part SuperNatural guitar with realistic strumming and performance emulation
• 16-part/128-voice ROM depository with a wide variety of electronica/urban patches and kits
• 3-part TR-808, TR-909, and TB-303 emulation with authentic interface and TR-style step sequencer

Roland are ya listening?

Guys (and girls), don't expect Roland to do something with this internetpoll. It's started by a forum user and it's fun to see the choices of different fantom G users, but don't get all too psyched.

(however I am aware of the fact that The Audacity Works actually works somewhere at Roland US, or atleast he was)

Definitely guitar ARX, the urban/techno board and also a Best of JV series board!! Oh, well, dream on..

r4uz:

Guys (and girls), don't expect Roland to do something with this internetpoll. It's started by a forum user and it's fun to see the choices of different fantom G users, but don't get all too psyched.

Yeah, I don't expect the developers to read this thread either, but just in case they do...

Not sure what kind of sway Dan has at Roland, but he's certainly been consistently active round these parts.

(however I am aware of the fact that The Audacity Works actually works somewhere at Roland US, or atleast he was)

In various capacities, I've worked and/or consulted for about a dozen MI companies. The Roland stint was four years ago, and regrettably, I didn't have a chance to meet Dan at the time. Fortunately, it was enough for them to let me sit down with the G during Winter NAMM 2008.

So the B3 board is leading the way? I wonder how hard it'd be to throw the VK engine on an ARX board? I mean the DSP code and the SysEx implementation's already there. Can't imagine it'd be too difficult.

VC-2esque board appears to be right behind.

Dan, can you confirm that ARX has an open architecture?

Here's hopin'!

IF they do it the real challange would be to refine VK8m. It's been one of the better clones for quite a while, but has come into years with some weaknesses, like most of that generation.

The most convincing clones today are Clavias C1 (a big step ahead of VK8m) and Hammond itself for the more soft, jazzy B3 things. It would be a lost chance if Roland just recycled a several years old clone which meanwhile is beginnning to belong to the second row - from my view.

But anyhow: better than none...

1. ARX Expansion Module housing 8 ARX boards
2. ARX Expansion Board Adding 4 MIDI Outs and 2 MIDI INs to Fantom G for connecting other controllers to play all the ARX expansion boards....
3. ARX Expansion Board Adding 8 Stereo Tracks of True DAW (Flash based or HD Based)
4. ARX Expansion Board Fixing Effects Routing Flaws in Fantom G
5. 8 parts/128 notes Ethnic ARX with effects and EQ.
6. 4 parts Pyhsical Modeling Synth. String (plucked, bowed), Flute, Hand Drums...
7. 4 parts VA synth
8. 16 Parts Based Arranger ARX board
9. 5 Parts vocal designer......

WOW!