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Salutare! As vrea sa te intreb cate ceva despre Fantom G, o am doar de 3 zile si nu stiu de unde sa incep johnesp arond gimail punct com este adresa mea de mail, daca vrei, putem vorbi acolo. Multumesc.

Art, yeah, well... The XP-50 was my first synthesizer and before that I had no idea whatsoever about what a synthesizer is, or workstation, etc. I was pretty impressed to see a "Time Fit" function there wich was applied to MIDI (since the XP can't handle audio) and I thought it was nice to have it now too. But on the other hand, Roland engineers must have their reason for wich they gave that up. Probably is (almost) pointless now. It was nice to decide the time duration of a song in terms of minutes and seconds. But how do you feel about the "Extract" and "Merge" functions? They could be useful in order to handle the project more efficiently in my opinion.
P.S. Wait a sec... Juno G -> Fantom X? I thought it was otherwise. The FX appeared before the Juno G. And something tells me that you're not the kind who needs "entry-level" -))

I cheated on Roland and had a few others "on the side" for quite a few years, thus my giant leap in my "Roland way" (as Art preferred to call it):

Juno-106, JX8-P, Fantom (FA76) and the G8.

Do I miss anything? Well, I must say that i missed the warm pads from the JX8-P for a looong time, but the FA76 were quite good at that and the G is fantastic so I don't miss that anymore. BUT... There was a patch called Poly Brass (if I'm not mistaken) and I actually miss that. I can still remember the warmth and the richness of that sound and I can't seem to get it from the G. It may be that I'm glorifying the whole thing and that I would look like a complete arse if someone put an old JX8-P next to the G and compared the synthbrass sounds, but there was something special about those synths. I would still kill to get my hands on a Jupiter-8, so if someone's got one...

Apart from that, I don't miss a thing. WAIT! It would be swell if my G8 had the weight of my Juno-106! Too much to ask for?

Ensoniq SD 32 workstation (20 something yrs old) - still very nice but sequencer is a bit dated/barebones. On the G I would like to be able to hit the copy button for a phrase and change the copied phrase immediately without affecting the original - in other words, not go through the duplication process which is too many buttons to press for such a simple thing. Also, for those of us determined to NOT use a DAW we need more cut/paste on song page - forget the clunky "Modify Phrase" button - at least for the "intuitive" stuff.

psterbentz:

Agreed, the copy operation should be automated: duplicate phrase and insert it.

Now I KNOW it will eventually reach Roland ears so I can sleep tonight Also, thanks for the Tweakbook!!

I have the juno G and would really like the fantom to add the same arpeggio pattern generator .. simple and easy to use and visually helpful..