New owner of a Fantom G

Hey Scott congrats on your purchase, I managed to bag myself a G7 yesterday but it's going to take a few more days for delivery anyway I've been watching all the tutorial vids in youtube and from what I can gather you can directly sample your B3 (or any instrument) into the fantom, I'm not sure if this is what your looking for but seems like a fairly straight forward to get an 'authentic' sounding sample if my understanding is correct.

the fantom is an extremely powerful synth with a very good archtecture..start looking at editing a patch to get the sound you like.. you will be more creative and have a better feeling of accomplishment than by simply loading samples/patch of what somebody else thinks is a good organ sound... you can also look at www.sinevibes.com

try to get 1gig of ram for your Fantom G. then try to listen to the hammond samples here

www.fantomgsounds.com

I did order the 1gb memory , and I do plan on sampling the Hammond direct, but I dont think I can loop the leslie sound. I think I just need a good leslie effect on the fantom. Thanks for the feedback.

have you tried in detail to edit patches, PFX and MFX settings as yet?..

You wont get the Fantom to sound like a nord stage however if you are making a judgement call solely based upon the stock patches of the Fantom here then you missing out on 90% of the power of this board.

ScottRB wrote:

I did order the 1gb memory , and I do plan on sampling the Hammond direct, but I dont think I can loop the leslie sound. I think I just need a good leslie effect on the fantom. Thanks for the feedback.

I have played and tweeked many of the organ sounds on this unit and found some usable ones, but I used a Roland Boss guitar rotary effects processor live in a stereo setup 15 years ago on stage that was extremely close to the real thing. I even used that processor in the studio and everybody thought it was the real thing during mixdown. So I know Roland has the ability to do that well on this. Now that I have sampled the Hammond, I will send that out in mono to that processor (yes it still works) and the rest of the sounds in stereo to the other outs on my board and solve my problem. That being said, the sounds on this unit have gone beyond my expectations. I now have the Brass ARX and a gig of memory which have greatly increased its capabilities. The rotary is the only weakness I have found so far. The Fantom has taken a lot of stress off my studio computer. I cant leave it alone!

ScottRB wrote:

Owned this unit for a week. I would rate it a 8 out of 10 so far. Most sounds are good. The software is productive, but most organ sounds are less than acceptable. As the owner of a Hammond B3, I would like to know if any one knows of some decent B3 samples for this unit. The leslie sounds like a bad vibrato. I believe I would be the icing on the cake if I could get some good Hammond samples. Is Roland concidering an ARX for this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

ARX is dead. I'd say sample the raw sound of your Hammond and then run those patches thru a separate output into a Ventilator. Or, buy a VK-8M to play via MIDI. I extensively sampled my Korg CX-3 into the Fantom and made the notes long enough (8 seconds) that I wouldn't have to loop. Not ideal, but it was worth it.

I did sample the B3 with the three drawbar settings I use most of the time. Extensively working on the loop points. Still have not mastered those loop points to a science yet. Then I send them though the aux out mono through a neo ventilator and back as an audio track in stereo. Works well. Will be perfect when I get the loops zeroed. The B3 sends out very inconsistent sine waves.