I purchased the Fantom 6 on Sep 5th, 2019. Upon the initial purchase I was extremely disappointed.
As an owner of the Fantom x7, my personal expectation for the new Fantom is much higher than those who have never experienced the x or g series. With that said you take away the name Fantom and you have a wonderful keyboard.

The expectation for the Fantom just might be out of reach, it’s like following the Stones or Wu-Tang.
However, Kudos to the Roland development team. At the pace they’ve been pushing out these updates along with the fact it seems they have been listening to the consumer, I’m excited!

The board is a monster no doubt, only our imagination or lack there of can derail this beast. Great job Roland thus far.

Next: you have already made it possible for us to drag at least 5 midi instruments, 7 including the cv inputs/outputs.

1.) We need a sequencer that can handle the horsepower at least 5 sets of separate midi 16 track Sequencer banks. Preferably a different assignable 16 track sequencer bank for each individual usb jack, midi din and cv slots ( think mpc).

2.) Audio: audio is kicking everybody’s rear end right now the amount of resources that it takes for our modern processors to calculate audio in real time is holding back the future. With one of those usb slots we should contract these duties out to a usb hard drive ssd. At this price point I wouldn’t mind investing more money if it leads towards disk streaming. This would be revolutionary, the upside would be a fascinating experience.
a.) Imagine being able to lay out all you vocals, chop and time em and use the Fantom to launch tracking.
B.). When you can contain all of your audio sources in one environment, I find that the creation of a space is more believable. Not to mention, the resources that the Fantom has are truly amazing.
And this baby locks up man, I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but this board syncs second to none.