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Roland FANTOM-08 Synthesizer Keyboard

Name: Roland FANTOM-08 Synthesizer Keyboard
Brand: Roland
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Overview

FANTOM-08 brings your musical vision to fruition.

Hailing from the legendary Roland FANTOM pedigree, the 88-key FANTOM-08 synthesizer keyboard was designed to easily fit into your workflow, while giving you powerful synthesis and customizable creative control. It was engineered to give you free rein to explore, shape and fine-tune your sound using a color touchscreen, hands-on controls and deep computer integration. Jam-packed with the classic Roland synthesis and sampling power we love at Musician’s Friend, it doubles as an audio interface with more-than-capable DSP in a lightweight yet robust format—making it a dream to perform and produce with.

Enhance your workflow

In addition to packing some serious synthesizing power, the FANTOM-08 is primed for any kind of performance or production workflow. With Scenes, you can effortlessly recall sounds, patterns, performance layouts, templates, settings and sections of—or even entire—songs. This is ideal whether you’re writing in the studio or performing on stage.

Add it to your setup

FANTOM-08 is many things, including a 4x32 USB audio interface—and it’s got the DSP to back it up. Boasting native touchscreen and hardware integration with Logic Pro, MainStage and Ableton Live, it’s ready to jump right into your setup and get to work. It adds the top-shelf feel of hi-res knobs, sliders and RGB performance pads to your creative workflow, with deep computer integration putting the power in your fingertips.

Sample with Roland

Cutting-edge ZEN-Core and SuperNATURAL technologies come into play in a big way on the FANTOM-08, loading it with thousands of high-quality electronic and acoustic sounds from Roland’s renowned library. If you’re a pianist, you’ll love the new SuperNATURAL pianos, with their authentic acoustic grand tone and responsiveness. The Virtual ToneWheel Organ gives you a faithful recreation of the real-deal playing experience, offering quick-fire playability and harmonic control via the touchscreen and onboard hardware. Should you choose to expand your palette down the road, you can via the Roland Cloud library.

Synthesize and sequence

FANTOM-08 lets you construct evolving passages, modular-style animated textures and sounds with intricate movement. With two LFOs per partial and four partials per tone—plus the ability to stack 16 tones—FANTOM-08 can provide up to 128 LFOs per voice. In addition to the iconic TR-REC pattern sequencer, inspired by the TR-808 and TR-909, step LFPs are available with 16 steps of beat-synced automation and 35 curve choices per step.

Express yourself with FANTOM-08

Roland thoughtfully designed FANTOM-08 to give you absolute freedom of expression. Modulation is a cinch whether you love levers and wheels or prefer external pedals. The 32-band vocoder gives you creative expression from VP-style ensemble tones and robot voices to otherworldly textures and other stimulating effects. There’s even a dedicated USB port for connecting a MIDI controller, if you opt for that accompaniment. With all the possible permutations of expression at your beck and call, the sky is the limit to your creativity with the FANTOM-08.

Features

Roland’s ZEN-Core and SuperNATURAL technologies provide thousands of quality sounds
Virtual ToneWheel Organ with harmonic bar control delivers quick-fire playability
Scenes ease workflow with 16 layers in addition to effects and patterns
Onboard 4x32 USB interface gives seamless integration with Logic Pro, MainStage and Ableton Live

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Specs

FANTOM-08 Synthesizer Keyboard Specifications:

Keyboard

88 Keys (PHA-4 standard keyboard: with Escapement and Ivory Feel)

Sound Generator

TONE
ZEN-Core
SuperNATURAL Acoustic
SuperNATURAL Acoustic Piano (EXSN01/03 preload)
SuperNATURAL Electric Piano (EXSN02 preload)
VTW Organ (Only ZONE2)
Various MODEL sound generators (require adding EXM Series)
*ZEN-Core Tones and Model Tones can import and export.
*Backup file has compatibility with FANTOM-6/7/8, but it can read the enabled features only.

Expansion

EXZ Series
EXSN Series
EXM Series
*The expansion are rewritable internal sound generator memory—you can download data from the Roland Cloud and write it via a USB flash drive into the FANTOM's internal memory

Parts

16 zones (Internal + External)

Scenes

128 scenes x 4 banks
*The Scenes can import and export

Tones

At least 3,500 tones
At least 90 drum kits

Tone Remain

8 zones
*When "Scene Remain Switch" enabled; Tone Remain does not apply to VTW Organ sounds

Favorite

Rating system: 4 steps (0-3)
one Search/Scene Search
Rating, Character

Effects

Multi-effects: 16 systems, 90 types
Part EQ: 16 systems
Drum part COMP: 6 systems
Insertion Effect: 2 systems, 90 types (serial/parallel connection selectable)
TFX: 1 system, 90 types
Input MFX: 1 system, 90 types
Chorus: 9 types
Reverb: 7 types
Master compressor
Input reverb: 7 types
Input EQ: 1 system

Vocoder

Band: 13, 20, 32
Type: Mono, stereo
Preset setting: 10
User setting: 20

Scene Chain

Chain: 16 Scenes x 32 Pages (Total 512 Scenes) per 1 Chain set
Set: 100
Marker: 36 (0-9, A-Z, a-z) per 1 Chain Set

Sequencer

MIDI tracks: 16
Group: 16
Pattern: 8 (per each track)
Pattern length: 32 measures
Recording method: Realtime recording, step recording, TR-REC
Editing method: Piano roll edit (Touch Edit/Automation support), Microscope
Song: 1 (per Scene)
File format: Original, SMF export/import supported
*PAD Sampler trigger data can be recorded.

Sampler

Keyboard Multisample
Format: 16/24-bit linear, 44.1/48kHz, WAV/AIFF
Number of samples: 2,048
Number of multisamples: 128
Sampling time: The maximum is 2 minutes 44 seconds (1 sample)
*A total of approximately 256MB (share with Expansion titles)
*Keyboard Multisample can import and export as ZEN-Core Tone

PAD Sampler

Format: 16/24-bit linear, 44.1/48kHz, WAV/AIFF import supported
Maximum polyphony: 8
Number of samples: 16 pads x 4 banks
Sampling time: The maximum is 60 minutes (the equivalent of approximately 660MB)
*A total of approximately 2GB (including imported WAV files)
*When you use the PAD samples as KBD Wave, then you have to manipulation it

Internal Storage Space for Files

Size: 2GB

Others

Rhythm Pattern
Arpeggiator
Chord Memory
Motional Pad

PAD Mode

Sample Pad, Note Pad, Partial Sw/Sel, DAW Control, Zone Mute, Zone Solo, Kbd Sw Group, Rhythm Pattern, Pattern, Variation Play, Group Play
AIRA LINK
* When connect to MX-1

Controllers

Pitch bend/modulation lever
Assignable switch x2 (S1/S2)
Control knob x8
Slider x8
Wheel x2
Function knob x6
Sound modified knob x2
4x4 pad
*1,024 step editing support
It can be use with Cutoff, Resonance.

Display

Graphic type, 5.5" (1,280 x 720 dots), backlit LCD (color touchscreen, screensaver, wallpaper support)

Connectors

Headphones jack: Stereo 1/4" phone type
MAIN OUT jacks (L/MONO, R) (1/4" TRS type)
SUB OUT jacks (L/MONO, R) (1/4" phone type)
SUB OUT STEREO (PHONES) jacks: Stereo miniature phone type PHONES support
Mic input jacks: 1/4" TRS type
Line input jacks: (L/MONO,R) (1/4" phone type)
FOOT PEDAL jacks(HOLD, CTRL1, CTRL2)
MIDI connectors (IN, OUT)
USB MEMORY port
USB COMPUTER port (AUDIO/MIDI)
External device port: A Roland A-49 or an A-PRO series MIDI controller can be connected
*Operation is not guaranteed if a generic MIDI device is connected

Audio Interface

Max 24-bit/96kHz
Record 16 stereo channel
Playback 2 stereo channel

External Memory

USB flash drive (sold separately)

Power Supply

AC adaptor

Power Consumption

1,300mAh

Dimensions (WxDxH)

54-7/8" x 13-15/16" x 5-7/16"

Weight

32 lb. 11 oz.

Accessories

Owner’s manual
AC adaptor

Options (sold separately)

Keyboard stand: KS-G8B, KS-10Z, KS-12, KS-20X
Pedal switch: DP series, RPU-3
Expression pedal: EV-5
USB flash drive

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