How far is Roland behind, really?

Nah, we are all going to get Akai SynthStation 49's for our ipads- it's the future baby!!!
that is of course, if Apple allows it.

Thank you SammyJames,

I do bow down, every night to my gear, my prayer is simple, "more equipment"

This comes from the fundamental belief that all gear is useful, and given the right application, any one gear shall exceed all others.


And yes, it is best to respect your gear, while you may not be able to hurt the feelings of your gear, as gear has no feelings, Your gear can definitely hurt your feels, as it is demonstrate time and time again through the frustration of others on this very forum.

Atlas:

The irony isn't lost on me. You're right -- gear can hurt you. Like the time that I dropped my keyboard on my foot.

You're also right in pointing out how many people on this forum have problems with their gear. I am not one of those people, because I don't own very much gear. Unless you count the $5,000 of software that I have purchased over the last six years or so. But in that case, when I hate something, I just delete it. Try "deleting" a Korg Karma.



Actually, I HAVE tried that. I "deleted" my Triton Le, which SUUUUUUUUUUCKED...

This message that I'm writing here makes absolutely ZERO sense... I need some more @#$%! coffee.

- Sammy

JavaJ:

You know, I HAD thought about that Akai SynStation 49 iPad thing. It just looks HORRIBLE. I mean, the actual physical shell looks boxy and extremely unappealing. But I do hope that if other companies start producing similar products, they might actually come up with something that looks and feels good, and performs well.

I would simply hope that someday, Android will become the other platform of choice for electronic music apps, I could perhaps get into that at some point. I just want to have a dedicated hardware system for playing my software applications on.

- Sammy

wow, your foot, maybe a few smashed finger but never a whole foot.

While I never deleted an instrument, I have neglected a few until the batteries leaked. (ops!)

I really enjoy my iPad, but he akai thing is a little weird, I think i'll stick with the midi interface I got. Seems to work ok, Turns my iPad into a sound module and/or a step sequencer. The korg apps are cool and almost useful, Roland needs to release something. Even Yamaha has the "Hub". I think a dedicated custom app for cataloging sounds & midi sequences would be cool.

You may need coffee, where as I need to stop drinking coffee.

I don't know why but the new Roland BM7 looks like a fun tool, have to check it out, given my financial controls (wife) it may be in my studio before the Kronos. People are already whining about the polyphony on Kronos, 200 to 400 voice just are not enough, I guess we'll never be satisfied, I know I'll always want more.

Fantom G rules! (sometimes, or at least till I gets something better, or at least as long as I am typing here at the RCF>FG.)

My Roland Fantom g isnt behind, it spends most of it's time in front. being played. by me!!!!

that's the right attitude jur451c.

A keyboard does not make a man, It is the man that makes the keyboard.

the fantom g does not rule, you rule jur451c

play on my friend.

A keyboard does not make a man, It is the man that makes the keyboard.

the fantom g does not rule, you rule jur451c

Couldn't agree more !!!

You can make music with every instrument if you're creative. But on topic:

I think a workstation in the year 2011 should allow you to load your own sounds. Let's see what the three can do to load User-Multisamples...

Motif XF: with optional Flash (max. 2GB) instantly accessible User-Multisamples
Kronos: 18GB SSD streaming User-Multisamples (loading/precaching to RAM during boot-up: 1GB in 10s)
Fantom G: No User-Multisamples at all. Only "Sample-Sets" to load from 32MB Flash or from a slow USB-Drive

Now tell me how far Roland is behind.

EDIT:
Fantom G: User-Multisamples instantly accessible from 32MB Flash or loaded from a USB-Drive

(Sorry for this silly mistake. I have not followed the update history of the G because I was too disappointed by it and kept my X7.)

cosmotobe, are you living in 2008 or what? Roland added multisampling in one of their first OS updates for Fantom-G.

edited: I shut up.

I think it will be something like the stuff UAD and TC make a PCIe Cards or I hope it will be something like that.
Keyboards and Module don't sell enough in the studiomarket.
http://forums.rolandclan.com/?action=show_thread&thread...
at the buttom.

J.

Interesting thread

There's a lot of educational input from you guys !

Kronos piano sounds do not loop per the NAMM show presentation. That alone is a huge step forward in sampled digital pianos. If the velocity layers are fused together like the RD and CP that puts it ahead of all sampled stage pianos...! Their EP use partial modeling so no layers. Nord is probably scratching their head wtf just slammed into them and smashed their pianos reminding them how behind they are too. Hahaha