Rolland Fantom X7

[killarava2day]

Has anyone had any experience with this keyboard.

Basically I just can't get my head around software based production, although this thing looks like a mini computer anyway, but would I be able to make competent tracks from start to finish without the need to utilise a PC with this type of equipment.

The sales guy talked this up obviously, appears to do most things you could ask for, and it's not relatively cheap either.

[eyes without a face]

would be a good addition to a studio setup sure but i wouldnt like to produce whole tracks on it, not for that price and not when you could have something with tons more flexibility and for nothing like that price tag

[killarava2day]

Eyes, basically I don't like being confined to a PC to make my music, so honestly is there any way around this?

I've got most programs, and have never really explored any of em.

I used a friends MC909 for a few hours and had explored most features and was having a blast. I used to own an RM1X too, although I sold it cause the sounds generated were quite pathetic I thought.

I'm sorta confused myself as well here?

[RDR]

The way forward is to use a tool for a job. What tool is the fantom designed for? stage? sound design? dance music?

What are its limitations?

Also i really wouldnt discount the PC all together. there are plenty of things it can do that the fantom cant. Good on screen wav editing is a total bonus.

[Starfuqer]

i don't want to get in a software vs hardware fight but if you do not want to use a computer at all, get ready to spend 20 000 $ .

But if you have trouble wrapping your head around software , i don't think switching to hardware will really change much. The theory behind both are identical.

[tekara]

well if you dont want anything to do with PC, then i suggest getting a good keyboard synth and an "all in one" studiobox (which everyone seems to hate). Maybe run all your keyboards into an MPC4000, and you can use the MPC as a sampler as well if you have sample CD's. Record everything into its sequencer and run the whole machine into different outs of a mixing board where you can add effects and mixdown.

There are a million different ways of doing the same thing, but if cutting out the PC is your main objective, then what i have described above is a possible solution.

[killarava2day]

well if you dont want anything to do with PC, then i suggest getting a good keyboard synth and an "all in one" studiobox (which everyone seems to hate). Maybe run all your keyboards into an MPC4000, and you can use the MPC as a sampler as well if you have sample CD's. Record everything into its sequencer and run the whole machine into different outs of a mixing board where you can add effects and mixdown.

There are a million different ways of doing the same thing, but if cutting out the PC is your main objective, then what i have described above is a possible solution.

Well, that's what I thought this 'workstation' synth did? It samples, sequences and sounds all right too?

think I'll stick to buying records

[eyes without a face]

it does what u say yeah but it will be extremely limited in what it can do until u utilise it in a studio environment

not wanting to use computers at all is shooting yourself in the foot really unless u can afford analogue sequencers, synths, drum machines etc etc