NEW FANTOM-G, PLEASE TALK HERE

[PauloF]

Thank you Artemio

[PauloF]

Still Learning,
Good stuff !!! I enjoyed specialy the "Teenage Wasteland.wmv". Its rocks !!!

I had some difficulty trying to understand what Ed Diaz was saying, as the sound is not so good, but Ed's diction doesn't help a lot, does he ?

Thanks for your videos and stuff

Take care
PF

[Still Learning]

All right boys and girls, Artemio wants the raw, uncompressed videos so I have started the 16 file, 285MB upload. It is around 8:40AM here in the L.A. area and the upload should take around 4.7 hours, if there are no hiccups. Keep your fingers crossed. This will be the largest FTP transfer I've ever tried.

[Artemiy]

Dan, thanks very much! Well, compared to my recent 6.66 GB download which took 2 days, that is a piece of cake

[SRUT, BUT...]

Still:
Thanx for your videos! It's incredible HOW NOISY it actually is over there at the NAMM 08 booth of Roland! But anyway: it's a nice service to let people from far far away participate.

The next thing I am looking forward to is that Roland puts some demos songs (or even better demo sounds) online to be more able to judge the G's sound quality!

[Solitary man]

I know this may have already been discussed but I haven't the time to read through 300 plus posts so can anyone tell me if I can record, mix and master all my midi,audio tracks on the Fantom G and then master to DAT or CD?

[Artemiy]

can anyone tell me if I can record, mix and master all my midi,audio tracks on the Fantom G and then master to DAT or CD?

You can do this on the X, so why not on the G?

[Still Learning]

Hey Strut, This year, Roland used a lot more headphone stations at all of their demonstrations. Each headphone station mixed in the demonstrators voice with the audio output of the board being demonstrated. This allowed for a much better evaluation of all of the incredible brand new waves and patches on the Fantom G and the other boards.

Still not perfect, but is was much improved over trying to evaulate the new audio using studio monitors or PA's in a relatively noisy environment. Here is a photo of what I'm talking about. Notice all the people with headphones listening to the new RD-700GX demonstration.


On top of this, each major demonstration station had a compliment of stage wedges playing at a relatively lower volume for people to hear if they didn't want to wear the cans.

All the stations had headphone options, even the walk-up Juno, SH201, V-Synth GT, etc. stations

[Still Learning]

By the way, the transfer is at about 75 MB of the 287 MB moving at a lightning fast average of 14.3 KB/second!.!.!

[Artemiy]

I can see the bits crawling in, I can see them!!!

[Artemiy]

Oh my, too much of smoking green tea today.

[Artemiy]

I mean drinking, of course!

(Oh damn! now you know the truth...)

[SRUT, BUT...]

Still learning:

Thanks for the extra info on the headphones! Since I live far away (Germany) and since I am a hobby musician only, I will never go to NAMM supposedly, but with reports like yours (or the FAQ made by Audacity) it feels like being there!

(btw - it's srut, not strut, so you can save a letter for tough times... )

[smurf]

I have too much time on my hands so I thought I'd put this info together to compare some of the differences between the Fantom G and Fantom X. Info listed first is Fantom G and the info after is comparing to Fantom X.

Fantom-G: Workstation Keyboard
Reaching New Levels of Power and Luxury

Relative Comparison between the new Fantom G and the older Fantom X series: (Note! There may be a
few discrepancies because of Roland's lack of specificities regarding the Fantom X specs on their web site). Also there may be a few errors on my part because of my lack of experience regarding some of the Fantom X features and how they work.

Specs
Keyboard and Sound Generator Section Keyboard
88 keys, PHA II, Ivory feel, with velocity and channel aftertouch --- >> New keybed on 88 key version.

76/61 keys, velocity and channel aftertouch --- >> Same as Fantom X with same keybed??

Mamimum Polyphony
128 voices, shared with the sampling section --- >> More parts on Fantom G; over 3 times the amount when including ARX and Audio Tracks.

Wave Memory
256MB (16-bit linear equivalent) --- >> Double of the Fantom X BUT a fully loaded Fantom X has almost 1 gig of wave memory with SRX expansion etc.

Waveforms
2,153 --- >> 673 more Waveforms than the Fantom X

Preset Memory
Patches 1,500 + 256 (GM2) --- >> 348 more Patches than the Fantom X
Rhythm Sets 64 + 9 (GM2)
Live Sets 512
Studio Sets 128
User Memory per one project
Patches 512 --- >> Double the User Memory Patches over the Fantom X
Rhythm Sets 64
Live Sets 512
Studio Sets 128

Effects
Patch Multi-Effects (PFX) 16 systems, 76 types
Multi-Effects (MFX) 2 systems, 78 types ---- >> Why is Roland so skimpy on their Fantom X specs?? They do not list..
Reverb 1 system, 10 types
Input Effects 1 system, 6 types
Mastering Effects 1 system, 3-band compressor

Data Format
16-bit linear, .WAV or .AIFF ---- >> ?? (When you consider that the Fantom X can
utilize up to 16 Phrase Tracks and each Phrase Track can have up to 16 MIDI tracks 'per' Phrase Track -
which equals 256 MIDI tracks total: So twice as many as the Fantom G)??

Audio track: max. 24 ---- >> (24 more than the Fantom X).
Tempo track: 1
Beat track: 1
Resolution
480 TPQN ---- >> (approx. 600,000 more notes than the Fantom X).
Song Length
9,998 measures ---- >> No sliders on the Fantom X.
Assignable Switch x 2 ---- (No assignable switches on the Fantom X??)
D Beam Controller ---- >> No D Beam on Fantom X.

Connectors Headphones Jack
Stereo 1/4 inch phone type
A (MIX) Output Jacks (L/MONO, R)
1/4 inch TRS phone type
B Output Jacks (L, R)
1/4 inch phone type
Input Jacks (L/MONO/MIC, R)
1/4 inch phone type
Mic./Guitar Input Jacks
1/4 inch phone type / XLR type (Phantom power)(Hi-Z) ---- >> No Mic. input or Phantom power on Fantom X.

Pedal Jacks
Hold Pedal Jack (Half Pedal recognition)
Control Pedal Jack (assignable) x 2 --- >> (1 more Pedal Jack than the Fantom X).

MIDI Connectors
IN, OUT, THRU ---- >> (USB 1.1 on Fantom X whereas Fantom G has USB 2.0 and can transfer Audio via USB Flash drive (not included
USB Mouse Connector --- >> No USB Mouse Connector on Fantom X.

Digital Audio Interface
COAXIAL INPUT / OUTPUT ---- >> Half of Fantom X's 256 Sets.
RPS Sets 32 ---- >> 32 (Groups) on Fantom X as well??
Rhythm Pattern Sets 32 --- >> Read above line..
Chord Memory 128 --- >> (Twice the Chord Memory of the Fantom X).
Chord Memory Sets 128 --- >> Exponential increase over the Fantom X.

Display
Graphic Type, 8.5", Wide VGA (800 x 480 dots), backlit LCD (Color) --- >> Much larger Display than the Fantom X.

Pads
16 pads, Velocity and Polyphonic Aftertouch sensitive --- >> No ARX expansion on Fantom X; but Fantom X has "4" SRX slots.

Expansion for sampling memory
DIMM: 1 slot, supports PC133, CL=2/3, 3.3 V, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB --- >> No USB Flash drive capability on Fantom X; but Fantom X can use a PC card
which (supports SmartMedia and CompactFlash).

Power Supply
AC 117 V, AC 230 V, AC 240 V (50/60Hz), AC 220 V (60Hz) --- >> (Fantom X does NOT support AC 220 V (60Hz); at least it's not listed on Roland Fantom X spec sheet if it does.)

Power Consumption
30 W --- >> Uses 13 "more" Watts than the Fantom X making it close to double the amount.

Accessories Owner's Manual, CD-ROM (Editor, USB MIDI driver), Power Cord
Options Expansion Board: ARX Series, Keyboard Stand: KS-V7 (Fantom-G7/-G6), KS-18Z
(Fantom-G8/-G7/-G6), KS-G8 (Fantom-G8), Pedal Switch: DP series,
Foot Switch: BOSS FS-5U, Expression Pedal: EV-5, USB Flash Memory: M-UF1G, M-UF128, Microphone:
DR series, Headphones: RH-series

Size and Weight Width
1,396 mm
55 inches
Depth
502 mm
19-13/16 inches
Height
183 mm
7-1/4 inches
Weight
32.0 kg
70 lbs. 9 oz. ---- >> 5 1/2 lbs. more than the Fantom X8.

Fantom G 76 key
Weight
36 lbs. 7 oz. ---- >>> 4 lbs. 7 oz. more than the Fantom X7.

Fantom G 61 key
Weight
32 lbs. ---- >>> 4 lbs. 7 oz. more than the Fantom X6.

*The specifications are subject to change without notice.

[Solitary man]

what I want to know is when I will be able to download the user manual and have a really good look at what it can do.