Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

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FGM
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Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

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https://www.roland.com/uk/support/by_pr ... s_drivers/

https://www.roland.com/us/support/by_pr ... 723b51a02/

[English] FANTOM-6/FANTOM-7/FANTOM-8 Version 2.00 Supplementary Manual
https://www.roland.com/global/support/b ... 5a110d1b3/

223,70 MB to download and 351 MB once unzipped.

In a nutshell....

UPDATE HISTORY
[ Ver.2.00 ] SEP 2020
Please refer to the "FANTOM Version 2.00 Supplementary Manual" for detailed information in the [ Owner's Manuals ].

[ Additional Functions ]
KEYBOARD SAMPLE / MULTISAMPLE functions are provided.
A MICROSCOPE EDIT function has been added to the sequencer.
An AUTOMATION function has been added to PIANO ROLL EDIT.
A MAKER function has been added to SCENE CHAIN.
A SWAP function has been added to SCENE CHAIN.
TFX has been added to MAIN BUS.
Input MFX has been added to AUDIO IN.
A ZONE OUT ASSIGN screen has been added.
A WALLPAPER function has been added.
[ Functionality Improvements ]
A display function for the LIST screen has been added to SCENE CHAIN.
COPY, SWAP, and INT functions for SET have been added to SCENE CHAIN.
ZOOM EDIT is now selectable for MFX, IFX, and TFX.
ZOOM EDIT is now selectable for DRUM KIT EDIT.
Five types of ASSIGN parameters have been added to the S1 through S3 buttons.
ADVANCED has been added to ZONE INT/EXT CONTROL.
Transpose settings for each respective ZONE have been added.
KBD SAMPLE is now also selectable in FACTORY RESET, BACKUP, and RESTORE operations.
[ Bug Fix ]
The following bug was fixed.
In SCENE CHAIN, information fails to be displayed correctly when a SCENE is deleted from a SET.
0kk0p3kk4
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Re: Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

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Good news:
Great to have an update

Bad news:
No tonewheel organ
FGM
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Re: Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

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0kk0p3kk4 wrote:Good news:
Great to have an update

Bad news:
No tonewheel organ
Cannot you build it using the terrific amount of things we already have....?
Per
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Re: Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

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Yes! Selecting partials is a small thing but going to be so much nicer now, and will make tone editing and creation so much quicker.

The new multisampling looks pretty comprehensive at first glance though I didn’t see any round-Robin/random sample play option which would have been extra nice. Still nice progress there.

Fingers crossed for per partial/zone arpeggiator and arp sequencer in a coming update, as well as tonewheel and ABM, wavetable etc fun stuff. But looks pretty good so far, could do with less sequencer updates.
Per
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Re: Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

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FGM wrote:
0kk0p3kk4 wrote:Good news:
Great to have an update

Bad news:
No tonewheel organ
Cannot you build it using the terrific amount of things we already have....?
You can but not efficiently. The issue is that once you start filling up those partials and zones for each drawbar and tieing them to the slider controls you very quickly run out of polyphony, and on top of that anything that uses those sliders seems to be buggy when loading the patch back in.

A drawbar or tonewheel sim could do it using just a single zone with probably a lot more polyphony and probably a nice UI to switch to control it via the sliders. Without an actual API Roland can just do a better job than us using the Zen-Core system.
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Enjoy, and when you are done with the clonewheel, let us have a listening, please.
FLOW_ZEN
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Re: Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

Post by FLOW_ZEN »

Nice Update!
Also a new Pad Mode: Group Play, this is fantastic
Good work Roland :)
what I miss is multiple Clip or hole Row selecting,copy/paste function in the Sequencer but lets wait for the
next Update...
Good Vibes out to you Fantom Fam, lets create some good music...
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Re: Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

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Per wrote:
FGM wrote:
0kk0p3kk4 wrote:Good news:
Great to have an update

Bad news:
No tonewheel organ
Cannot you build it using the terrific amount of things we already have....?
You can but not efficiently. The issue is that once you start filling up those partials and zones for each drawbar and tieing them to the slider controls you very quickly run out of polyphony, and on top of that anything that uses those sliders seems to be buggy when loading the patch back in.

A drawbar or tonewheel sim could do it using just a single zone with probably a lot more polyphony and probably a nice UI to switch to control it via the sliders. Without an actual API Roland can just do a better job than us using the Zen-Core system.
yes polyphony is lacking badly in the Fantom I really hope it gets boosted, right now voice stealing is a common occurrence even under a very moderate load.
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The issue related to the start scene being attentively saved to A001 is fixed.
Great !!!!
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Really nice deep black with wallpaper at 1; red, green and blue [we better care our eyes] at 0, and alpha at 255.
TokyoScarab
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Re: Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

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I'm really happy with this new update so far! The sampling mode to keyboard is something the Fantom has been missing since launch and it's here and seems very well implemented so far. I did notice one thing that gets me a little hype though. They completely reworked the UI for the MFX sections. They very closely resemble the Zenology style and flow. I can only assume and hope that this means they'll add the model expansions to the Fantom line like they've been cryptically teasing for a couple months now.
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Re: Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

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Again Waveform search missing, I have create no one user tone that utilize samples because the waveform search is impossible, I’ve only modified an existing tone (because here there is a search function) and created VA tone .
FGM
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Redrain68 wrote:Again Waveform search missing, I have create no one user tone that utilize samples because the waveform search is impossible, I’ve only modified an existing tone (because here there is a search function) and created VA tone .
I think perhaps this might be available anytime before Ver99.0 arrives...

In the meantime, I can help with a list...being in pdf format the search is really easy.

Waveform listing available from page 62.

https://www.roland.com/uk/support/by_pr ... 5856d6217/
Redrain68
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Re: Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

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FGM wrote:
Redrain68 wrote:Again Waveform search missing, I have create no one user tone that utilize samples because the waveform search is impossible, I’ve only modified an existing tone (because here there is a search function) and created VA tone .
I think perhaps this might be available anytime before Ver99.0 arrives...

In the meantime, I can help with a list...being in pdf format the search is really easy.

Waveform listing available from page 62.

https://www.roland.com/uk/support/by_pr ... 5856d6217/
Thank you mister ...I know very well this PDF file, but I must search waveform by type and name in order to be creative, also this file don’t contain the 15 waveform expansion so the search is very very very limited.

At the actual state I only search for needed tone - modify it . and save as user tone
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Re: Roland has released Fantom System Program Ver 2.0

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I‘am very pleased with the update.

https://youtu.be/rE0TxSBOu9g

Please make another thread what you wish and what you miss.
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