I want the new Roland Phantom

[Gopal]

Had a play with one of these in a shop the other day and it was very intuitive, easy to use and full of really authentic sounding vintage Roland sounds. Its amazing how Roland can emulate Roland eh?

Also having a built in sampler with 16 sample pads on a synth is a bloody great idea. Killer arpeggiator and D-beam synth control. Its just a whole lot of fun.

Pity about the price tag. Will have to stay on the wish list for a long time.

I would say that if you are considering a Triton, forget it and get one of these though, its also got banks and banks of really nicely done strings and pianos, orchestras, brass hits and all that stuff.

Anyone else played with one?

[Tomer=Trance]

are you preforming on stage?
if not i dont realy see a reason to buy such an expensive workstation.

[Hollowcell]

I had a go on one of the newer Fantoms a few weeks back. I couldn't get a good idea of it though - busy/noisy shop, people watching the non-japanese guy play, and dredfull speakers all didn't help. Did look quite good though. :(

[AlexHall74]

I have been drooling over the Fantom X for some time.

I almost bought an X 61 over my Virus KC last year but went with the Virus.

I will try to get the Fantom by the end of this year.

It's a very cool board and very versatile.

Can anyone recommend a soft synth (or a few to use) that can cover the broad range of workstation sounds (at least to a degree) while doing project recordings at home?

I love the sounds of my Virus, but it is my only synth, and sometimes I wish I could pull up a nice piano, string section, or other traditional ROMPLER sounds to complement the madness of the KC.

Thanks for any input!

P.S. I am SOOOOOO hungover today...too much celebrating that my test is over yesterday! :x

[jasedee]

There is alot of choice out there for ROMpler type sounds.... I can use Reasons NN19 sampler for pianos/orchestral type sounds, or HALion has some decent sounds aswell.

Mostly though I would turn to my MotifRack....

Not sure about other VSTi's though

[Juho L]

Can anyone recommend a soft synth (or a few to use) that can cover the broad range of workstation sounds (at least to a degree) while doing project recordings at home?

I can only think of that EastWest Colossus of which you posted a thread some time ago. That would be the overall sample set for any studio on earth. Costs less than 1000? and sounds better than most of the samples bought sepperately on different sample CD's.

[jasedee]

Dont forget BFD which I hear is pretty darn good for acoustic drum samples

[AlexHall74]

Juho wrote:
I can only think of that EastWest Colossus of which you posted a thread some time ago. That would be the overall sample set for any studio on earth. Costs less than 1000? and sounds better than most of the samples bought sepperately on different sample CD's.

That's what I was afraid of Juho!

Why does everything worth hearing have to cost $1,000?

DAMN IT!!!

If I am going to spend a grand I get jittery thinking that all I'll get are some CDs/DVDs and a nice user manual.

If I buy the Colossus I will probably get the rack version unless it is a real pain in the ass to access it from the PC/Sequencer.

[Juho L]

Dont forget BFD which I hear is pretty darn good for acoustic drum samples

DFH Superior is more versatile with different brushes and drum sets + the incredible beat humanising system. Easy to create drum tracks that sound exactly like a real drummer.

[Juho L]

Why does everything worth hearing have to cost $1,000?

Quality costs maybe? But think the insane amount of stuff that DVD set has! 35 gigas of allaround samples! Getting all that stuff individually would cost much more.

If I buy the Colossus I will probably get the rack version unless it is a real pain in the ass to access it from the PC/Sequencer.

That rack thing was really interesting. If it works well I think we'll start to see Colossus racks on live shows instead of basic workstations and keyboards.