Importing Sounds to Play on Keyboard

You cannot do that on the FA. You can play he samples loaded into the pads with the keyboard but you can't play up and down the keyboard and change the pitch of the sample.

Thank you.

Is there anyway you can load a custom made tone into the FA and play it up and down the key range, I have tone that I have tried to recreate but struggled and then had a friend created this tone on Alberton for me.

Sorry it is a dumb question to ask.

JKRolandFA wrote:

Is there anyway you can load a custom made tone into the FA and play it up and down the key range,

Custom made tones you create within the FA (using the samples already in the board) will automatically play up and down the key range. But if you're talking about loading custom samples, you're back to what CDA said... "You cannot do that on the FA. You can play the samples loaded into the pads with the keyboard but you can't play up and down the keyboard and change the pitch of the sample." There are keyboards that can do this, including Roland Juno DS, Casio MZ-X300/500, Nord Electro and Stage series, Korg Kronos, Yamaha MODX/Montage, Kurzweil PC4/Forte, but there are more boards that cannot do this than boards that can.

If you have an iOS device, you can load your sampled sounds into an app and trigger them from the FA the way you want (changing pitch as you go up and down the keyboard). You can do the same by connecting your FA to your computer, but using, say, an iPhone may be more convenient. The FA has a pretty decent MIDI implementation that will let you mix and match internal and external sounds together in a Studio Set.

There are no dumb questions!

Unfortunately, I do not think you can import sounds that way.

OK thank you for your reply.

I still cannot believe that they added this to the Juno DS but didn't give us a system update to do this on the FA, which clearly has a more powerful engine and processor... such a shame. I knew going in the FA-08 didn't have it and still love my board, but having multisampling ability would be nice for the odd time!

You can also do it on the JD-XI, strange why its not on the FA range as you mention.

It is strange and annoying. However, Roland did give us the black keys version ;)

Ha, true but just not for my FA-08 :P

nathbeadle wrote:

I still cannot believe that they added this to the Juno DS but

Acgually, it wasn't added to the Juno DS, the DS had that feature from its initial release. The feature was enhanced with the 2.0 upgrade, though.

Shame it can not be added to the FA range.

JKRolandFA wrote:

You can also do it on the JD-XI, strange why its not on the FA range as you mention.

I own the JD-Xi and you cannot use your own samples/multisamples in your patches. It has the same engine and limitations as the FA (which I also own).

crazy that the DS can read multisamples but FA cannot !
Does it mean that only Official Axial EXP library can be loaded to the FA ?
It should be possible to build a users EXP Library with external software then load it to the FA.
FA is often compared to the Yam MODX in the same price range, but on that point MODX is better.

oliv928 wrote:

Does it mean that only Official Axial EXP library can be loaded to the FA ?

yes

oliv928 wrote:

It should be possible to build a users EXP Library with external software then load it to the FA.

not only is there no tool for that, but also, as I understand it, the way the EXPs work is that some of the program data for them is actually pre-resident in the FA. I believe that's why you had to load a new FA system update in order to use the EXP-11 they came out with. The FA has no way to understand a new wave expansion that it doesn't already "know" about, so a new expansion requires also an OS update.

oliv928 wrote:

FA is often compared to the Yam MODX in the same price range, but on that point MODX is better.

Yes. Each had advantages over the other. FA advantages include trigger pads, modeled virtual analog synth engine, some other modeled ("SuperNATURAL acoustic") sounds, assignable ("sub") output, more capable sequencer, and the ability to split/layer 16 sounds across the keyboard (instead of 8). MODX advantages include a gigabyte of user sample memory, more partials available for sampled sounds (Yamaha calls them elements), FM synth engine, 2 insert effects per sound (instead of 1), seamless sound switching among any sound combination of up to 4 Parts (FA only lets you seamlessly switch among sound combinations contained within the current 16-sound Studio Set), endless encoders (always in the "right" position instead of "jumping" or "catching"), super knob (and other "motion control" stuff), audio over USB without a custom driver (e.g. works with iPad).