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Acoustic sounds

9 Sep 2019, 06:28
There is no super natural acoustic sounds in the fantom
This probably disqualifies the fantom for having a drawbar mode..

They have chosen to use the acoustic sounds from the Roland AX edge keytar..
Personally i found this the reason not to buy the keytar..
The rass and sax sounds for example where very underwhelming.
Being basic pcm sounds quickly makes them sound very unnatural..
This is nothing a good sample can hide
Not even a good player..

Which makes me again wonder why on earth would they when they finally bring a high end workstation to the market, take one step back where it comes to Acoustic instruments (and organs)?

Its also not to be expected that they will bring them later, as they require a whole lot of flash memmory, and there is not to much free of that anyway..


For the rest this instrument is brilliant, it has a great piano engine and maybe even a better synth engine... but as a workhorse it needs also acoustic sounds of high quallity on board.

Re: Acoustic sounds/Organ capabilities

9 Sep 2019, 07:53
In two videos demos he does specifically say the sliders can be used as organ draw bars!

The rack of sliders has only 8 sliders and full organ set has 9, so at best its going to be a compromise. There is another slide adjacent ( presumably an overall volume control) or the sliders had two- sets ( to give 16 channels) so there is a possible make-do work round possible.

I agree about Acoustic/Integra sounds ..a serious step back if this is to be a full workstation not a 'brilliant synthesiser/piano workstation with make do others sounds".

Re: Acoustic sounds

9 Sep 2019, 09:28
Liquid wrote:
Ed Diaz has said (in the new FB group) that SN sounds are coming :-)

I await with baited breath!

Alan.
If so, i will buy witouth having to think a seccond..

I will see if i can find the new facebook group, thank for this info

Re: Acoustic sounds

9 Sep 2019, 12:58
Someone states there that vPiano cuts Off when changing scene. Is there some way for seemless patch change from vPiano to other sound, If that is true?

Re: Acoustic sounds

9 Sep 2019, 15:27
In the above mentioned FB group Roland staff have confirmed the V-Piano does not cut off.

Re: Acoustic sounds

9 Sep 2019, 15:29
Cello,

Sorry to be a pain, but whats the headlines of what was said in the group?

I don't use Facebook.

Re: Acoustic sounds

9 Sep 2019, 17:12
cello wrote:
In the above mentioned FB group Roland staff have confirmed the V-Piano does not cut off.


Interesting. I've seen it cut off in a video or two. I read the manual and it did say that there are certain situations where the patch remain may not work.

Re: Acoustic sounds

9 Sep 2019, 17:31
Xanadu1209 wrote:

Interesting. I've seen it cut off in a video or two. I read the manual and it did say that there are certain situations where the patch remain may not work.


No doubt. You could build some mega scenes. Hold down everything and probably get it to glitch.

Re: Acoustic sounds

9 Sep 2019, 20:54
MacTyros wrote:
Its also not to be expected that they will bring them later, as they require a whole lot of flash memmory, and there is not to much free of that anyway..

I think there's 2 GB flash available.

Re: Acoustic sounds

10 Sep 2019, 20:32
I certainly hope they add the SN acoustic sounds. Still have my Fantom G6 and an Integra, and don't use synth sounds much, so addition of the acoustic sounds would be necessary to convince me to consider the new Fantom. I really want to support Roland and its return to the high end market, and the DAW integration is very appealing as I use Logic, but this particular sound set is just not what I need and the sequencer is a big step backward compared to what is in the G6 (I do mostly linear sequencing).

Re: Acoustic sounds

11 Sep 2019, 06:34
cello wrote:
In the above mentioned FB group Roland staff have confirmed the V-Piano does not cut off.
I have a Fantom 7 in front of me and can confirm the V-Piano *does* cutoff when changing to another patch.

Mine has System version 1.04, build 00.82
Dave

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Re: Acoustic sounds

11 Sep 2019, 06:42
dboulden wrote:
cello wrote:
In the above mentioned FB group Roland staff have confirmed the V-Piano does not cut off.
I have a Fantom 7 in front of me and can confirm the V-Piano *does* cutoff when changing to another patch.

Mine has System version 1.04, build 00.82
Just tried it on my F8 and yes, you're right, it does cut off.

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