Archive for January, 2009

Roland FANTOM-X8 Synthesizer/Workstation

 

 

The Roland Fantom-X8 comes with 88-note Progressive Hammer-Action Keyboard designed to capture the feeling of a grand concert. This workstation keyboard has Roland’s most powerful Sound Generator Chip offering musicians 128-voice polyphony and almost 1GB of wave length memory. The dazzling color LCD screen is the first in a workstation keyboard. With all the images in color, the surrounding becomes more lively and ones mood more pleasure and I bet you would not want to turn back.

The Fantom-X8 can record either short samples for playback on keyboard or long linear takes which is similar to a digital recorder. The Fantom-X8 features a brand new 128MB wave ROM loaded with quality-focused sounds like vivid new string sections, expressive and fat-sounding drums, an amazing new 88-key split acoustic piano sound and rich nylon string guitars, which uses individual stereo multi-samples for each key and at every velocity stage.

The workstation keyboard has Roland’s Skip Back Sampling feature. This feature would relieve musicians from keeping track of their performances because the sampler is constantly recording every note you play. Musicians can instantly retrieve a performance and turn into a sample. This Powerhouse Workstation with an Ultra-Friendly Interface is every Studio Musicians and live Performer’s dream come true!

Roland G-70 Arranger/Music Workstation


The Roland G-70 Music Workstation is the product of a combination of technologies from across the entire Roland product range. The G-70 is equipped with a powerful sound engine; with a lightening-fast processor, stellar sound set, 128-voice polyphony and six real-time performance parts. The G-70 takes sound and performance to new levels of realism.

The G-70 gives you a superb professional feeling because when you play you can feel only a slight differences between a grand piano, classical guitar or an accordion sound. The G-70 also incorporate Virtual Tone Wheel technology ported from Roland’s popular VK organ range. Nine front-panel sliders correspond to the 3D animated Virtual Harmonic Bars on its full-color LCD provides organ players the feel and response of a real harmonic-bar organ .

Roland takes advantage of the power of it’s Arranger by recording a combination of 285 completely new styles from jazz, pop ensembles to classical orchestrations, using live studio musicians to create professional backings. In addition, the G-70 allows you to customize instantly any part of your style or song and enables each accompaniment instrument to play smoothly and without any awkward interruption each time you change chord, thanks to Roland’s Cover & Makeup Tools and ACV(Adaptive Chord Voicing) Technology. The G-70 also provides 50MB internal memory, a floppy disk drive and a memory card slot which supports Smart Media and Compact Flash. For songwriters and performers, this Arranger is the RIGHT investment.