This is the Macintosh version of the Fantom-S/ S88 Editor / Librarian software. Fantom-S Editor Macintosh OS X. This is the Macintosh OS X version of the Fantom-S Editor / Librarian software. XV-5080 Patches for Fantom-S (PC) Download the original XV-5080 Patches that have been ported over to the Fantom-S. Refer to the 'Fantom-X_XV_Readmeen.txt. Review and History of the Roland Fantom G|||||||||||||||||||| Review and History of the Roland Fantom G The History of the Fantom Line zZounds Fantom Department Expand your Fantom S/X/XR or XV synth with Roland SRX Expansion boards Keyboard workstations have been around a while. While definitions will vary, I define a true workstation as a keyboard that is designed to do a full piece of instrumental music. So that will include 1) a large set of preset sounds covering many different types of music, 2) a sequencer, and 3) a sampler. There are only a few bona fide workstations on the mass market and they are often referred to as the 'big 4'. ![]() ![]() Yep, Korg M3 (and the Tritons), Motif, Kurzweil an, of course, the Fantoms. All four have their own ancestry that dates back to the days when MIDI was king. The Motif dates back through the EX7, EX5; the M3 goes back to the Trinity (and to the prototype Oasys). The Kurzweil K2600, perhaps the longest lived line travels back to the late 80s with the K2000. But in this article, we are going to look at the lineage of the today's Fantom G, it's family tree, so to speak. The JV/XP Lineage These include the JV 30/ JV 1080/ JV2080/ JV1010/ XP80/ XP60/ XP50/ XP30. The Fantom's sample playback synth engine can be traced back to what I will call the XP80 engine. The XP80 was the top of the line of several synths that had the same engine. This family of products included the JV1080, JV2080, JV1010 modules and the XP60, XP50, and XP30 synths. All of these synths were 16 channel multi-timbral. Usually the differences were centered around expansion slots, type of keyboard and display and number and type of outputs. For example, the low cost JV1010 had no keyboard, only 2 unbalanced outs, only a 2 character display, included the 'Session' JV80 board and had one open JV30 slot. Oddly, one of the least expensive, the XP30, offered the most bang for the buck as it hardwired in the techno, orchestral and session JV80 boards and gave you one more open slot. Strangely on the XP80, the most expensive, the 4 expansion slots were empty. You had to pay more to get less! Can i upgrade alienware x51. The sound of these boards and modules were almost indistinguishable, and uniformly excellent. Many of the synth patches in these boards are also in the newest Fantoms. The XV Lineage XV88/ XV3080/ XV5050/ XV2020 The XV engine saw the introduction of the 64 MB SRX series expansion boards. This was mind-blowing as at the time most whole synths only had an 8 to 32 MB sample playback rom. With the XV88 we see the D-Beam controller and 4 data sliders. The XV88 had 128 voices of polyphony and was expandable by 2 SRX boards and 2 JV80 boards. The 'core' 64 mb rom was introduced with the XV series which was going to be standard through the Fantom S and X, though often reprogrammed with different presets. Non of the synths above had sampling or loaded user samples yet.
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