Good review. Very clear and straightforward

As Fantom 0 'ners we all seem to suffering from polyphony Issues however i'm rocking an O8 live, playing left hand bass and basic layers and splits with some leads, the Ed Diaz videos on Rolands KZfaq channel are brilliant, I haven't enjoyed playing live this much in a long time, and no polyphony issues in this simple but fun setting, get straight in and build your own scenes is definitely the way.

great stuff you rock!!!!!

Hi there, nice tips, thank you. I also own a Kronos 73 and 61 and thinking of getting a Fantom O series. As a Kronos user you have the ability to test the capablities of both devices. Can you please compare the ease of use and patch quality of both synths? I am also gigging once a month and using my Kronos 61 yet want to have something lighter but I am affraid of losing good sounds of Kronos and ability of creation for the scene. I hope I was clear on my request. Thanks in advance.

Last year I switched from my Yamaha CP5 to a much lighter 76-key Yamaha keyboard, and initially I was worried about the synth action keys. I also felt 'spoiled' after 50 years with weighted hammer action instruments, but I got along surprisingly well with the new lightweight stuff. So, your gripes are not causing me too much headache, and I'm really, really looking forward to my Fantom-07. Ordered it last night.... 😁

Zone Edit has a full EQ for each Zone. Effects edit has EQ settings as well. Very versatile.

After getting use to hammer action keys, I just cant get the same nuances from a synth action keyboard while playing piano sounds. So I just midi them together to use the hammer action keys for all piano tones.

I'm surprised how everyone has problems with something... I have a Roland Fa 08 and the operation is wonderful, simple. Recording and creating entire 16-track songs is very simple and enjoyable. Can I also record 16 tracks on Fantom and export them to mix later? No one talks about it, as if nearly $5,000 hardware didn't provide the ability to compose and export tracks to a computer or pen drive. If so, what should I buy to compose electronic music without using Daw???

To play the weighted action keys you can hookup Kronos with Fantom via 5 pin midi cable.

Hey, I've asked a question on here awhile ago, and I'm wondering, before I decide to keep this or not, can I put sound expansions from other keyboards like the Fantom X6 or FA-06 onto hear somehow? Is that possible to do, or can sounds from other units be exported into the Fantom 06? I have never done it before, so I was wondering if that's possible? I know that there are sounds that you get on Roland Cloud Manager, etc, but can you put/export sounds from older units into this unit if there is an expansion for it? I appreciate any feedback. Thanks...SBN RESONATE

Hello, thanks for your review. I'm torn between getting a midi controller, workstation, or what setup I should consider. I currently have a FP30. I got it for a steal as neighbour was moving. Yet I'm here wanting to start producing songs as well as accept gigs. I mainly want to sing, then layer on piano chords and drum beats, as well as possible synth manipulations. Is there any keyboard that can do all this? I am considering workstations for the hands on approach. Yet so many choices! Are there any that have the option to do the looping and effects I want but also portable, or even wireless (though that's a bonus). I know Juno can go off batteries but not sure how good it is with live looping/layering. Or is midi+laptop also easy to do shows with? Thank you 🙏🙇‍♀️

I got the fantom 08 with weighted keys. They are a bit heavy weighted for my taste. But at thus price point you get a really great feeling of a really piano, you can really express you feelings into the songs that you play. I have lightweighted arturia midi keyboard, those are also great for studio recording with other vsts synths. I had a Yamaha psr 3000 before which was also lightweighted keys, but still amazing sounds, but it makes you wanting to play on a real piano when it comes to piano sounds, weighted and lightweighted are both good, f. Eks. When it comes to synths sounds, I rather want lightweighted, but when it comes to piano sounds Mann! Weighted is a must. That's why I got the fantom 08 instead of 07 or 06. 06 has way to few keys to roll up and down on. I'm happy with the fantom 08. It's just hard to use. The Yamaha psr wasn't a synth, but still a great keyboard with a lot of sounds, but the sound engine or sound quality wasn't as good as the roland. Psr 3000 is also very old 😂

Great video. Love what Roland did with this board, same as how Yamaha did with the MODX, just the piano sounds on these are not it.

Does it have touch response settings my Medeli AKX10 has about 10 settings to adjust the touch response curve it makes a huge difference to acoustic pianos

I've heard before that Roland sequencers are not good. I'm used to a KorgT3 and a Yamaha Motif ,very old machines but i like the sequencers. I think the Korg Nautilus and The Kurzweil Pc4-76 have decent old fashioned sequencers. I might buy one of them. Thanks for your review.

With that many sounds I wonder: can you mark certain sounds as favourites? That's a feature I like on my Yamaha Motif.

Nice info .....thank you sir. I have some problem I couldn't dump tracks with logic pro x. Searched about the drivers in the site but I couldn't find drivers for Mac 10 version what's the solution sir ?!

Is anyone else having problems with theirs going out of tune if you have parts with pitch bend in it? I just got mine, and I'm already running into tuning problems and the pitch bend is taking the beginning of loops out of tune if I use the pitch bend towards the end of the pattern? Is there anything I can do, or are there any setting that can help me out?...SBN RESONATE

I ve ordered the fantom 07. Ive since read on forums about polyphony issues. Have you experienced any such issues?

Just got my O6 today and played the first scene on the menu and ran out of polyphony. 256 is it. Seems ZenCore needs lots of power, 2 oscillators per partial, IF 4 partials, 8 voices per single note played on the keyboard, now the synth has the 32 note polyphony. Good thing this Fantom is just one of many synths I own, it doesn't have to do everything, but it will have to sequence and play groups from the 4x4pads. We shall see over the next few months...

The only problem is in this keyboard we can’t change samples time Strech. Otherwise I am fine with this keyboard

Could you check if your Fantom-06 is bent? Put it on a desk and see if the center touches the table top. A friend of mine have sent 4 units back so far, and some was so bent, the controlls didn't function.

I think you can change time signatures within a sequence with microscopic editing.

I'm kinda finicky about keybed feel. I actually really liked the key action of my old Triton Extreme 61. Are the Fantom 06 keys inferior to the Triton in your opinion?

Biggest drawback for synth players is lack of after touch pressure keys. I have to give ASM kudos for poly after touch on a $1000 digital board. Not that it is a better synth, it has narrower purpose but that it can be done. Sure it would add costs and compete with its big brother, but it is just one of those little but important nuances I look for. It is really helpful, though if it receives after touch from another controller like Korg's Wavestate, although there is not global receive, just per scene.

Would you recommend this over the Kronos/Nautilus or if you had to choose one over the other?

Had the original fantom 6 (the latest version) and after careful consideration I traded it in for the mpc key 61 and I have never looked back. The sounds are surprisingly good! Especially after tweaking sounds. On top of that it can sample other keyboards/plugins. Is it perfect no I admit I do have some gripes but for the first offering from akai this is a real statement. I'm sure the next one will be even more of a beast!

I just bought one and am a newbie on keys. I got 61 o6.

Perhaps a stupid question... But I have no experience and want to buy my first keyboard (I also will go on lessons so it needs to be a bit portable). Should I buy an FP-E50 of a Fantom?

Needs interactive chord. Jdxi is better with real time transpose and 16 track sequencer and variphrase

That timing problem with the sequencer cost me multiple hours of time on my old Fantom X6. I have the audio track upgrade and maxed out the memory, but if the sequence changes tempo, it all goes south (specifically if recording vocals on the audio tracks). It seems that they still haven't sorted that out. Don't worry, the sequencer on my MODX7 is no better - albeit no audio tracks, but it's a pig to use. The only sequencer I have ever been happy with was my first - a Roland MC-500 (runs with 3.5" disks). I've never been comfortable with any others since. Go ahead ... call me a dinosaur 😰

Thanks.

I just got the 08 earlier this month. The keys feel weighted and ... creamy... Smooth. The 4+ instrument polyphony feels like someone cut you off while you are trying to say something.

How do I enable my touch screen feature? Mines doesn’t work.

even the sequencer of my KORG 01W/FD from 1991 can be programmed with changing measures. But nevertheless I just bought the 08 after a long thinking about it

I already have a roland JDXI and Juno DS. I been wrestling if I should get fantom 06. My main goal is getting more sounds. whats your opinion on the preset sound banks and possible expansion sounds for this unit? Looking to make deep house and trance music. I have enough real life instruments from my juno ds.

You need to adjust the key action from normal to heavy or soft. It makes a world of a difference.

I wish the manufacturers would make a keyboard action slightly heavier than the synth action without being fully weighted.

Comparing Fantom 0 (budget synth) with a Kronos that clearly costs a lot more… would have been a better comparison with the full blown Fantom which you don’t have…

Sold a Kronos it crashed once a month even onstage with a quality backup power conditioner and waiting near 3 minutes to boot sucks the new nautalius is 3 minutes that's a huge negative

Wait, your gripe is that you didn’t know you could EQ things? 😅. If I had to choose between a dark shot of myself or the keyboard and or screen, I would show the synth.

Good Information for using O-series. But can you invest some money for a better cam? This low defination hurting my eyes a lot. Maybe you also can have more users.

Does this have fender Rhodes?

I've got the O8, and it has weighted keys. I'm more of a synth head; so, weighted keys really aren't my bag. TBH, I only got the O8 was because the store I was at was out of the O6, and the price difference for me between the O7 and O8 was less than $200. I should have stuck with the O7, but I'm still loving my Fantom-O.

RANDY JUDAH TORREZ ❤️ < Enjoy your video tutorials I have a 2019 FANTOM 7 76 keys one of the differences between the one you have and the one that I have I believe that the main chassis the body of the 07 it's metal and the sliders light up and all the knobs up on top and those knobs directly under the screen they light up it's actually really cool but I'm sure there's a lot more my sales representative told me that it came with a lot more bells and whistles the big brother to the 06. I also still have my KORG Triton Pro workstation 76 keys that keyboard is a beast in it itself to me it's a lot easier to work than this new Roland FANTOM but I always wanted a Roland and they complement each other. I subscribed to your Channel I like the way you make it simple and simplistic between you and the Phantom tutorials I should be okay the problem is I play guitar bass and drums so it's a challenge to stay focused on one instrument at a time for a very lengthy period but that's just the way it goes for me. 😆 🤣 😂 Keep up the great work 👍🏼 Sincerely: RANDY JUDAH TORREZ

I prefer the original Phantom 6 that costs a little more, that came first before the Phantom 06

I got lost on the way to my first synth. I got lost in my cheap made MODX. And I got lost in the community I got into. Now I try to find a reasonable way to get, what I initially wanted. To be honest... are those points the most important? Piano? Weight? You buy a car, and only care about the colour and the radio inside? What about the sample-quality? Did you ever play a sample over the whole range? Or am I worldwide the only workstation-player who does? A Cello-Sample, a Supersaw-Sample...? What about the heart of music: sample(-quality)? Piano, piano, piano ... I didn't count YT-videos dealing with "piano" ... on SYNTHESIZERS. Sometimes I wonder, if I am kidnapped by aliens and transported to the piano-planet in the andromeda-galaxy. A machine with countless abnormal nasty features ... and then piano??? My MODX is claimed to have the best samples of all. And on the first sight ... of such short-times-reviews this is true. BUT: there are horrifying faults in those samples. There bugs all over my MODX in whole. From one key to the next you have different timbre, different volume, even panning to one side. Sometime only one note, sometimes, 2 or 3. In the middle of the scale. My review: crap! crap! crap! Is that unimportant????????? Numbers ... biiiiiig numbers. I have 2.000 preset sounds; actually the right number would the number of samples. Even Yamaha doesn't know how much. About 300 toms, 300 snares, 300 kicks, 300 cymbals................. who the heck needs such a vast percussion-selection??? What's the use? You can burn time with searching! No other use! I have 10.000 arpeggios. Ten ... Thousand! Is this normal? A 6yr old boy would be highly impressed by such numbers. Me not!!! The searching for a fitting one is a one-week-challange ... only for one song! Do you play sometimes? Or only search? What did I learn? The higher the numbers, the more horrifying for me! I craft my arpeggios myself. Even simple Basedrum. Much faster than searching for it in this bin they threw all in. I am a working, 53yr old man, playing eOrgans, Pipe-Organs, ePianos and Keyboards for over 40 years. Ask me about keybeds ;) I am nor a freak nor a fan of a company. I think clearly, I hear clearly. When I am on an intrument, I LISTEN! Is there a "wrong" pipe, is there a strange noise ... music ... samples ... quality. And with this machine the second thought are the features. Does the side-chain sound well? No. Ooops, there is an effect that causes sound-collaps. Why is it there? Browsing arpeggios the machine stalls ... restart. And so on... Does the company fit bugs? No. Because the community only requests: piano and more (buggy) features. A pitty, that in the synth-scene a normal man like me has no chance to get a true insight via reviews. If a keyboard would be that crappy. If an Organ would be that crappy. If a grand would have such sound-faults .... only the synth community is able to accept all kind of crap ... without loosing any thought on it. That is perhaps the most shocking I encountered with my workstation.

The biggest issue for me is the lack of Variphrasing! The sequencer is not complete without time stretch and leaves the sampler crippled.

Is it semi weighted?

What about keybed?

Another question: what is a scene? Excuse my bad french, but your gripe about not bring able to change the meter in the middle of a song probably doesn't bother 99% of users, because nearly all music is in 4/4.

I would say JX3P is the little brother to JX8P and maybe JX10

Uh, what was that intro track... Lol

I had to get help to work how to save songs , it's great

why does he keep on repeating everything? Coulda rather have shown the stuff he likes, or at least demo some of the brilliant sounds.....m

Another fa06 with some more controls and a bigger display. Same crappy piano. This is innovation in recent years. Buy an old fa and you have the same

Some good info if you can sift through it all. I would suggest you take your ADD meds and make a more organized video. Not a shot at you about the ADD. I have it, and I can recognize it when I see it. Example you make a gripe about sounds and then talk about how you can make them the way you like with 3 simple knobs with the eq.... Grip... Like....I would call easy personalization a like. You kind of put the 32 measure limit in a grip, and at the same time say it is expanded to 64 measures in an update. How is that still a grip? Maybe mention that Fantom-O8 does have weighted keys since that seems to be a big deal to you.

Korg Triton Extreme is superior imo..

the keys suck, everything else is cool