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If you have an iPad or iphone, there's an excellent app, "iMidiPatchbay", which can store unlimited midi presets including bank/patch change messages. This way you could either call up several individual patches within the same performance or change the performance. As a midi interface, I ...

bennyseven wrote:Jupiter 80 has nothing to do with JP-08.

Sorry, I misread the original question...

Look at the Jupiter 80 sound list, you can download it here:
http://www.roland.com/products/jupiter-80/support/
You will see that the Jupiter has many more SuperNatural Acoustic sounds than the FA. I would say that's its main advantage compared to the FA. The SN-Synth department should be identical.

I didn't even rate the Kronos pianos! I've currently got the FA-06, and took it to a band rehearsal last night. To me nothing sounded as good as my N364 (8 MB ROM). There's a Rock Piano combo that surpasses any piano patch I've had on any subsequent keyboard. [...] What's going on here? Am I just m...

As I own a MoXF and and Integra as well, I would rate the Integra SN piano(s) (actually it is only one), the SRX 11 and the very special SRX 02 superior to the factory Motif/MoXF pianos, definitely superior to the 'Full Grand' (old CP3 waveforms), but also superior to the newer S6 Piano. But dependi...

If you look at the features of Roland's new arranger E-A7, it can use the WAV samples for the synth engine and also accepts multisamples, so I guess it will be the same with the new Juno.

I can't confirm this. The speakers I suggested only have 5 inches and work perfectly for piano up to a surprisingly loud volume without distorting. I've even used them along with a drummer.

I have never tried a Roland speaker, but I haven't heard too positive things about the KC-110. Piano samples often tend to cause distortion with many speakers, I even had difficulties with Genelec 8020 monitors. So I think the KC-110 probably just cannot handle the piano frequencies well enough. I c...

As far as the FA goes, the Axial site was intended to give FA users FREE access to a wide variety of JV and SRX series sounds. not because they just wanted to 'recycle', but because it was and still is a great collection of very usable high quality sounds. What baffles me is the number of people wh...

You may call it '----', on the other hand you get the expansions for free, while the hardware SRX boards for former Roland synths still cost you 150+ euros per board as used items on Ebay.

Yes, fact is you CAN only use the waveforms of two expansions currently loaded at a time, there is no way to pick your individual collection of sounds+waveforms from several expansions and store them.

Curious now. Can you program a setting in which each key actually plays multiple notes? For example if I want to have a dissonance chord sound or like an unnerving brass cluster (ala Creature From The Black Lagoon or The Shining) can I somehow have three trumpets and each of them is tuned to a semi...

No, that's one of the shortcomings of the FA (and even Integra, although it's compensated by all the other SN and SRX sounds there): the newer waveforms of the Fantom X are not implemented in the FA (for example: "Ultimate Piano". So you cannot replicate the same patches.

One thing worth noting about EXP-07, some of those effects like the drops and rips won't trigger unless you either hammer the keyboard for full velocity, or set a fixed velocity at maximum (127). I have the FA-06, and from what I've heard, the FA-08 has a better touch response, so you might not hav...

Working on new gear is good news of course! I think it is Roland's duty to fulfill announcements and promises and to solve bugs, but not to totally change the firmware. Considering the fairly low price of the FA-06 and the free expansions, which still cost around 150-200 Euros each in the form of us...