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Despite the clever marketing and hype, not one single electronic instrument has made me a better musician, composer or producer. I listen to recordings I made on a Tascam Portastudio in 1988 and feel that I was much more creative then, because necessity is the mother of invention. Enjoy the technol...

Tutorial by tommyboy936:

Programming risers and re sampling on Roland FA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPvXXVTvY_s

Sorry, but I don´t have the patch. I just saw the announcement and thought it’d be interesting for others to know. I wasn´t aware it was directed only to GuitarGuitar customers. Sorry for the confusion.
Cheers.

John Sweeney (Senior Product Specialist at Roland UK) put together a patch that emulated Vangelis' brilliant score for the film Blade Runner. To get the patch just send him an email: john.sweeney@roland.co.uk Here is the video with the announcement plus a demo of the patch: Roland FA-08 - Blade Runn...

User : You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down… Ron : What one? User : What? Ron : What desert? User : It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical. Ron : But how come I'd be there? User : Maybe you're fed up, maybe you want to b...

Tutorial by tommyboy936:

Programming a Scream Sound on the FA 06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AiwaIU4dz4

Programming Sounds on the Roland FA Workstations (by Dan Krisher)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTofNxdIdvw

Two tutorials by sudosonic: Roland FA-06 / 08 - Lesson #1 Introduction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w2aIcFZSGw Roland FA-06 / 08 - Lesson #9 Sequencing Overview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFPzFCfBwIo Presentation by Roland Australasia: Roland FA-06 Synthesizer: The Ultimate All-In-One Worksta...

Some tutorials by jawnyb2: Roland FA06 Sample Import Tutorial (FA06/FA08) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVV9b4pxMY Roland FA06 Sample Edit Tutorial (FA06/FA08) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIHZQGdEY8A Roland FA06 Tutorial Change the Default Startup Studio Set and Song http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Awesome music! Awesome video! Thanks for sharing.

Gareth Bowen from ROLAND shows in this video that it is possible to control Leslie brake with a pedal connected to the FA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX2ZaaA41MY&t=6m44s

This thread might be helpful to you:
viewtopic.php?f=55&t=47989

The instructions are in the file “EXP-01_Readme_e.txt” included in the .zip file you downloaded from the AXIAL site: 1. Copy the downloaded file (EXP**.bin) to the root directory of the USB memory. 2. Plug the USB memory into USB FOR UPDATE connector. 3. While pressing the [PREVIEW] button, turn on ...

On page 3 of the “Importing INTEGRA-7's SuperNATURAL Synth Tones” there is an image showing SN-A (SuperNatural Acoustic) tones listed as if it could be possible to import them to the FA from a .SVD file. Here is that picture: SN-A.jpg Does anybody know if it is even possible that a .SVD file contain...

I’m interested in key-action and hope to test the FA-08 soon. I’ve already tried out the MOXF8 and must say that although I didn’t dislike its key-action I could sense the bounciness of the keys whenever I released them as a little slow. I’m just hoping the FA-08 feels better, because I really like ...