Musikmesse Frankfurt !

It's 1st of April and you're lying.
There IS a new Roland Fantom-G product, THE FANTOM-G ZERO!!!!

(zero=zero support)

You're wrong. You really need an ARX click output for drummer.

sRa, they might implement tarnish / patina instead of rust... but that would also add 1 more year for development...

WHERE ARE YOU ROLAND??????????????????

I guess no free lunch today.

Well, it seems my analysis has proven true. Roland released the Connects Pack just before Musikmesse as a sort of "pacifier" for Fantom G owners (brilliant work on the Connects Pack by the way Roland:) but that's it for now I guess. Hopefully the Connects Pack will keep me busy until summer NAMM eh? Oh, and I just purchased Artemiy's new Fantom G Tweakbook so that should keep me real busy in the meantime too.

I know we tend to make fun of our comrades in Hamamatsu Japan. You know, like tease them a little bit, chide them for their inconsistencies, lambast them for leaving us out of the Musikmesse picture. But take heart my friends. All hope is NOT lost, even though things look a little bleak right about now. Yes, they forgot us at Musikmesse. >> Even though I prepared a special song for them to remember us! Oh well, "such is life" on a small island in western pacific eh? As we ALL know, they go by THEIR timetable - NOT OURS. All we can really do is grin and bear it. Or in the case of forum rabble rousers i.e. unhappy Fantom G owners - joke, chide, lambast, and scorn Roland because of the perceived slight of hand on their part towards us. But we DO know this. Roland WILL release a new OS update eventually right? In fact, Musikmesse runs through till the 4th, so wouldn't it be something if they surprised us with the new OS in the next three days? :0 Stranger things have happened, but of course holding one's breath is not allowed.. We'll see, but I'm not betting the farm on it happening just yet.

What we need to do now is channel all our frustrated energy into other things. You know, like making music perhaps? Roland hears our cry's and sees our frustrations. Hopefully they will now begin to channel all their efforts and devote as much time as needed to get OS 1.30 (or 2.0??) on the books and out the door. My gut tells me summer NAMM will be the targeted opportunity for it happening. Regardless though, it's gonna happen at some point. Sooner is always better of course. At least for Fantom G owners anyway. We wanted it yesterday..

But as I stated in another thread I feel Roland needed extra time on the next OS for whatever reason. The most likely of course is that they're not satisfied with the current results and they are now in the process of honing it into a fine diamond - instead of the lump of coal it may be in right about now. Either that or they're still in the process of celebrating the Japanese New Year and are now just beginning to wake up from their hangovers and getting back to business, and once again, are now working on Fantom G necessities.. Hopefully, that is..

Ahh!!!! Now I'm doing it!

Kudos!! to Roland and company for the really superb Connects Pack! Many, many thanks for your excellent effort on that one Roland. Now.. get back to work. lol.. Pretty Please?!?!? With sugar on top?!?!?

LOL! I was looking forward to buying someone lunch today but the way things are now, I will settle for a cup of tea and continue on making some haft music as normal, three month won't hurt. As far as update goes, it don't have to be on a show to release it right!

If you can wait 70 days, Roland UK will be exhibiting at the London International Music Show.

Last year, we got the Juno-Stage and the GW-8. Who knows what we'll get in June…

There go my hopes getting up there again! Arghhh!!!!

Sorry

Are we going to say the same thing after every show followed by "add next show here" is just around the corner, maybe they will give us something then.

In my view what Roland is doing with customer support is beyond a joke. No-one has a problem them working on their time frame instead of ours but to totally blank your customers and refuse to give out any information at all is diabolical in todays technological age.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. No more Roland/Boss products for me (with the exception of sonar which I am too invested in) and as of now yes I do regret buying the machine and should have done another 20 hours research to find all or its faults before buying.

Peace.

one exciting thing at Frankfurt musikmesse is the reactable synth. looks fun can play games and make music at the same time.
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/04/01/reactable-in-action-at-frankfurt-musikmesse-2009/

Great News! Yamaha updated Motif XS to 1.5 mybe now Roland will make a new OS tomorrow

Yes and the Nord Wave got a nice new OS upgrade with new waveforms and features, bug fixes, new banks of presets, and updated software editors.

How many of you use Superior Drummer with their Fantom Gs?

**Superior Drummer got updated to 2.1**

This major update contains many bug fixes as well as features significantly improving the user experience. It is recommended for all users and is essential for SDX (NY Vol2) support.

**New Features**

Offline bouncing overhaul (see chapter 5 for details):
- New option to not include all bleed and bounce only using the currently used samples
- Option to Bounce through the Mixer, including effects
- Independent Master bounce volume and overload display and Mixer bounce volume
- Progress 'message' board showing what mic is currently bounced
- The bounce process can be aborted
- New clearer nomenclature for the names of the bounced files
- New setting to 'Keep intermediate' files

New Mixer implementation (see paragraph 4.1 for details):
- New Bus send layout
- Soloing Mics and Busses work recursively so as to allow the sound to reach the Outputs
- 'Pre' and 'Post' Effect' send facility for both Mics and Busses
- Drag and Drop for Inserts and Sends
- New Outputs and Busses nomenclature to mirror many hosts

New presets handling (see paragraph 3.6 for details on Combined presets):
- Combined presets for loading/saving Instruments and Mixer Channels properties selectively
- Possibility to load saved files (.S20) as Combined presets
- Load/Save of Instrument groups for most preset types
- New Envelope Curve preset allowing to copy settings to groups of Instruments

Edrum experience improvement (see chapter 6 for details):
- New factory MIDI presets, including pedal correction curves (hatsCtrl only MIDI presets)
- Various bugfixes and improvements to the transmute, mainly in AMB mics and faded drums
- Change to Distribution Groups, improving CC-hihats

Other Changes:
- Superior1 libraries renamed 'S1 - Cocktail', 'S1 - Drummer' and 'S1 - Percussionist'
- Reorganized layout for the S1 Drummer factory presets
- Clicking on an anchor point in the Envelope curve is enough to update the display
- When 'Felt Mallets' is selected the 'Bottom Wire Snares' is deselected
- Preview in Studio window accepts mouse wheel to control articulation choice
- New savefile format that contains the new sub-presets found in the Combined presets
- Improved handling of memory limit exceeded during a bounce
- improved Mic auto-assignment for the X-drums
- X-drums should look like more similar to what they do in their own sound library


**Bugfixes **

- Typing keys that are out of bound as notes (G#8 or above) is no longer possible
- Mic assignment for the X-drums now shows 'MixName' instead of 'Name'
- Mics that are 'stereo out' but not 'stereo in' will no longer receive a silent right channel when bounced
- Bleed/usage/phase controls should no longer change more than the left side for stereo channels that don't have their sounds as stereo files
- The split selection is reset when changing Sound Library
- Channel pressure is now part of bounce
- Fixed a bounce bug, that after a bounce left the sampler in the state where sounds are loaded in the rendering thread instead of the demon thread
- Local Machine directory created with full access rights on Mac
- Better tolerance for non-ASCII characters in paths on MAC
- In S1-Drummer, crash22 in Ride4 and Ride5 internal names are now unique
- Pressing Load when editing bleed in Cached mode now works better
- Fixed bug in code that removes a trailing 'Sounds' from an input sound path
- Fading a non-close mic, early in the mixer, no longer leads to malfunction of the transmute for the other mics
- A negative Offset (envelope) along with pitching no longer leads to pops, crackles and crashes
- Soloing something before applying a preset or a savefile for the same Sound Library no longer leads to issues
- Solo and Mute in the Classic View are now updated when a control or Humanize preset is applied
- Fixed bug that caused crash when selecting a drum without a Close mic with 'EzMixer follows Selection' active
- Fixed the bug that caused newly assigned X-drum MIDI notes to not be written in presets or savefiles
- All the 'X-samplers' are reset when X Pads are reset, fixes the crashes when changing Vol2 factory presets
- Effects are now reset when the host asks the sampler to go mute. This should avoid 'clicks'
- Possible bugfix for crashes while changing playing drums on a multi-core machine
- Auth key comparison failure in some cases fixed

Can we get on-topic please? This was meant to be a Roland discussion.