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Fantom G6 Workstation
Comes with:
Power cableUser manualPC/Mac editor softwareHard caseMouse
Upgraded to Full 1gb RAM. More than enough for a few albums worth of samples. Considering you can load up different sets of samples and patched from USB it is essentially limitless for sample storage, just switch out the USB. But I never needed anymore than 1 usb with 40 patches installed, and I ran full live shows from it.
For sale is my amazing Fantom G6 Workstation. You can find lots of great reviews of this keyboard online, Heres a couple:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/FantomG6–roland-fantom-g6/reviews
https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/tech/roland-fantom-g6-148172
and heres Rolands specs:
https://www.roland.com/uk/products/fantom-g6/
It is incredibly versatile, the feel is great, the sounds are great and once you have your head round the software its just so much more reliable than having a laptop on stage. Its great in the studio for dealing up sounds, loads of great Roland sounds including the classic Roland Drum machines. The only reason Im selling is because we have now got a live keyboard player who has his own set up and the Fantom has been studio bound for the last year. I have just upgraded to a Native Instruments Komplete MIDI keyboard so I really have no need for the Fantom anymore. It has been a great companion.
I am happy to answer loads of questions about what you can do with it as I really got to know the software and used it for a while on stage. The keyboard has been kept in amazing condition, always cased in transit and I have replaced one knob that I accidentally knocked off (In the studio) with a genuine part direct from Roland, so you wouldnt know I had done it anyway, just being honest. There are a couple of grazes on the side buffers of the keyboard, but not much else. All keys and knobs, faders etc. in full working order. There are a few scales on the bottom of the keyboard (in the pictures), but they are literally where the black paint of the bottom cover has come off a bit. The side bumpers have little marks on them in places.
I used it for a whole host of applications a brief description of which may help you understand the capabilities of this Keyboard/Workstation/Sampler:
We had all the songs we played in our sets stored on a flash drive, plug it in and move them around for your set that night. Each song is a patch.
It had all the key sounds we recorded our album with, including samples we made of Arturia soft synths, Hardware Synths (Juno, Jen and Moog sub fatty) & samples we made ourselves from field recordings and records. For a lot of sounds we just used in built keys and drums etc. because they sound so good. All the sounds, drums, keys, pads etc are all tweak able, including ADSL filter, EQ and a really powerful effects bank. Effects and filters are assignable to knobs and faders so you can live filter and change fx, like increasing a delay feedback to insanity setting or filter sweeps.
You can layer up your keyboards, so we had split keyboards with a different bass on the left hand to the lead sound on the right, and sometimes split in 3 or 4 for more complicated arrangements. you can also quickly switch sounds within the patch to the chorus sound and back for example.
We used it as the brain for Roland drum pads and triggers. Our drummer had triggers on Snare and Kick and one Roland pad, plus I had a foot switch to trigger samples for specific songs. These were plugged into a Roland TMC-6 (Trigger to Mid converter) which went to the MIDI in port of the Fantom
It ran midi sequences that we started and stopped with pads and foot-switches.
It ran a backing track. You can arrange a backing track in the 152 MIDI/audio track sequencer. I promise this was the most reliable backing track we have ever used, it never skipped or failed once, although we limited backing tracks to only a couple of tracks that we really didnt have enough hands to do live.
4 Mono outputs (or 2 stereo) so you can send separate channels to Front of House engineer (We had Drums, Keys, Samples and one channel for Click to drummer)
The drum pads we used for both live sample triggering and live drumming, but we also used it for muting and un-muting loops etc, you can set it up differently for different patches.
Because the workstation has a sequencer you can do all sorts of things with MIDI, so in larger setups we had it sending MIDI to external hardware (Mood sub 37), and we also had it sending midi notes to a laptop running video (on resolume software, which allows midi triggering of clips), this meant we could have a specific clip playing when the drummer hit the snare etc. We used it very effectively for a big explosion clip on a huge keyboard stab. But it also just worked well for starting a video at the beginning of the track. We experimented with MIDI to DMX lighting which also seemed to work really well but we never quite got round to gigging with it. The sounds on the keyboard are great and the feel of the keyboard is amazing, so its a joy to play in the studio, even when you are just using it as a MIDI keyboard with a DAW. But for getting ideas down fast it has great pianos and vintage synth sounds that we used many times on record.
It also has a Mic/Guitar input, so a singer songwriter could go wild with it.
It does take some time to get into the software, its deep, its also a lot easier with a mouse plugged in. I will chuck in the mouse I used which is a reasonably cheap one but light enough and small enough to sit nicely on top and does a good job.
The D-beam synth is hilarious but lots of fun.
I think Ive covered all I can think of, just know that this keyboard is the business.
There is no original cardboard box but it does have a tatty but very protective hard case (see pictures) . If you want it posted I will pack it in something very protective inside and out too as the case I have it in is too big for the keyboard. We always had it in bubble wrap inside, so thats how it will come. I would prefer collection if possible.
It is a bit heavy so postage is a bit silly, if you live away Oxford (where I live) then Im happy to discuss meeting halfway for fuel or something to keep costs down.
I have specified Parcel Force 48 and this includes insurance.
No bidders from outside the UK.
Thanks for looking.
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Category: Musical Instruments:Pro Audio Equipment:Synthesisers and Sound Modules
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire