Fantom xa?? why Juno G ??

Hi there. I've got a Fantom Xa, and I agree with you it's great value for money - I'm a little surprised how cheaply they go on ebay in the UK!

I think one reason you don't spot many posts on it is that many of the questions and points made about the Fantom X also apply to the Xa.

If you search for "Xa" on this forum you'll find some excellent posts that compare Xa, X and G, such as this one:
http://forums.rolandclan.info/index.php?action=show_thread&thread=22676&fid=1&page=1

For me, I don't need the audio track recording of the X/G, so the Xa is a great keyboard - although I'd consider upgrading to the X just to get aftertouch.

Nick

I dont know if there is a thread about it, but here is my opinion:

I personally think that the Xa is most feature/cost effective board that Roland has ever made. You get a sequencer with RPS, real multisampling and all the patches, songs & samples made with the other X's and S will work in it and vice versa. These are some of the features the Juno doesnt have.

The Xa doesnt (and the Juno doesnt) have the X67&8 ROM bank that has the Ultimategrand & other new waves in it, but that didnt bother me as I have my own 'better' samples that I use.

No audio tracks expansion available, no need for me, I live in the PC DAW age. And yet I very often use the sampling & Re-sampling to do the same thing.

The keyboard in the Xa is 'OK', I am a bit spoiled on this subject as I use it with a 88 key controller with aftertouch. I dont know how good the keybed is on Juno.

I have been playing my X8 for a couple of years and I find the after touch just about useless.
It is way too firm. I have to really push it hard to make it change - even checking with MidiOx.

Is it my machine or do you have the same problem?