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Fred Welsh's Synthesizer cookbook provides a good explanation of how starting from basic waveforms you can synthesize a wide variety of sounds. It includes information on how to emulate acoustic instruments with graphica...
FAN X-UP1 is just another name for the Fantom-X Audio Track Expansion Kit. It upgrades a Fantom X from V1.0 to V2.0 software and adds support for eight audio tracks, multi-sample editing, etc. All new Fantom-Xs come with...
I have loaded the latest V8 package onto my X8 and all works as described in the documentation. This is a very impressive piece of programming and I didn't appreciate anything as sophisticated as this could be done on a...
Congratulations! The Fantom X is generally very intuitive instrument to use and the X8 has a great keyboard action. Roland US have produced a good range of support information that includes 11 workshops / tutorials (pdf...
DP-8 and DP-10 are electrically identical, both supporting half pedal capabilities, but the DP-10 has a long cord (2.2 m Vs 1.3 m) and an extending non slip rubber base that appears to rotate out from underneath the peda...
Roland has made the XV patches available for the Fantom X/S series products as a free download. http://www.rolandus.com/support/downloads_updates/eula.aspx?DownloadId=429 On the last page of the included pdf file is patc...
Apologies in advance for the dumb suggestion and I appreciate it is not a very elegant solution to the problem, but you could always connect your MP3 player to the audio inputs of the fantom, mix-in, and play along with...
The other great piece of news is Roland has ported all the XV series patches (which includes the XV88 patch banks A - F) to the Fantom X and these are available for free by downloading from the following link: http://www...
Some URLs where you can source CompactFlash PC Card Adapters. I use SanDisk and works well in my Fantom X8, but I have used other brands and they all worked fine. http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=100093 http://www.amazon...
This is a very personal thing. There is no substitute to comparing the two instruments side by side and deciding what you like best. I have a Fantom X8 and think both the pianos and EPs sound great. The X8 shares some of...