ROLAND FANTOM X DRIVER WINDOWS 8.1 MANUAL
ROLAND FANTOM X DRIVER WINDOWS 8.1 PATCH
ROLAND FANTOM X DRIVER WINDOWS 8.1 UPGRADE
ROLAND FANTOM X DRIVER WINDOWS 8.1 SOFTWARE

ROLAND FANTOM X DRIVER WINDOWS 8.1 SOFTWARE

The Sample button at the top-right corner of the editing software invokes the Sample Editor in a separate window. Note that samples in the Preset bank must be saved to the User or Card memory area first before they can be edited. These can exist either in the XR's User RAM or be resident on a inserted Compact Flash card. Both of these require samples to have been loaded into the XR. The upgraded Editor adds two new screens: the Sample Editor and the Multisample Editor. However, edited Parts must be saved 'by hand', one by one - there's no option to write these using Performance Write (unlike on the earlier JV, XP and XV synths) which is not quite so convenient.

ROLAND FANTOM X DRIVER WINDOWS 8.1 PATCH

The Fantom X's Version 2 OS now allows fully detailed individual Patch editing from within Performance Parts, which is good news. The Performance editing screen, with its optional keyboard. So you have to delve into the XR's own edit menus to set them precisely - which somewhat defeats the object of having this Editor!

All too often, the exact values you wish to set are 'skipped' by the knob or fader, and no means is available to make 'fine' settings. If there is one complaint to level here, though, it is that control over many of the parameters is too coarse. The Fantom X Editor makes getting around the XR a breeze - and infinitely preferable to the button-intensive menus and small display found on the XR itself. All the XR's data is transferred to the editor, and you can then select a Patch or Performance to edit. Once you have specified the appropriate communication port, you go to the Edit menu on the toolbar and select 'Synchronise'. The Patch/Performance editors are just as easy to use and immediate as those in the previous version of the Fantom X. The v2 Fantom X Editor now has three principle parts: a Patch/Performance editor, a sample editor and a Multisample editor. The Patch Editor screen from the Fantom X Editor showing the LFO and Patch Common details. Aside from this, though, comments pertaining to the XR also apply to the X6, X7 and X8. Roland supplied SOS with an XR Rack pre-installed with the FANXRUP1 kit, so this review pertains to the XR version, and there will be no discussion of the eight-track audio features.

ROLAND FANTOM X DRIVER WINDOWS 8.1 UPGRADE

These are not available in the XR Rack upgrade, which is understandable, as the XR has no onboard sequencer, but rather less fairly, the XR upgrade is the same price than the keyboard one. The major difference between the rack and keyboard upgrades is that the keyboards' sequencers receive the benefit of eight fully sync'ed audio tracks. The upgrade is also available for the rackmount Fantom XR, in which case it is more properly known as the FANXRUP1 upgrade, but both versions offer very similar new features for both keyboard and rack Fantoms, including improved Fantom X Patch/Performance editing software, a Fantom Librarian, proper large-scale, on-screen sample editing, a multisample editor and - at long last - an S700-series sample-library converter. The FANXUP1 Sample Tools Expansion Kit is an operating system upgrade for the Fantom X range of workstations, namely the X6, X7, and X8 keyboards (reviewed in SOS September 2004), but not the cut-down Fantom Xa. Can the v2 OS and editing software provide the solutions? The Fantom X is Roland's best-ever workstation, but it has suffered from one or two annoying omissions, such as the ability to import Roland's own sample format.

ROLAND FANTOM X DRIVER WINDOWS 8.1 MANUAL

The upgraded Fantom XR used for this review, with the additional Sample Tools printed manual and the bundled disc containing the v2 Editor software.

Roland fantom x driver windows 8.1