The ULTIMATE production workstation

**Sinfamous** · 03-18-2004

I'm currently looking into investing my dollars in a Roland Fantom X6 over a Korg Triton workstation. How are the synths and drums in the Fantom and is it user freindly? Is it worth the money?

**hot trax** · 03-18-2004

The drums on the fantom are weak,but it is user friendly,but I would get a motif es over the fantom because the sounds are better to me.

Welcome

**Sinfamous** · 03-21-2004

thanx! appreciate the feedback.

**MusickMan** · 03-21-2004

yep second that, the motif ES looks like the one to get right now, there's no fancy touch creen or a tube in it but the specs are massive

**THM** · 03-22-2004

Welcome to FP dude !!

**Sinfamous** · 03-22-2004

Being that i'm in the far northern burbs in Illinois, we really don't have the resources where hardware is concerned. So I took a trip to the city (Chitown) and spent over 4 hours playing with the Motif, Fantom, and Triton Studio. I put $400 deposit down on the Yamaha Motif before I left lol. I put mydough where the beats were. Thanx again everyone for the feedback!

**MIDAZ** · 03-23-2004

Listen i dont no what theses guys are talking about.I just copped a fantomx 2 weeks ago I love this machine. It is off the chain. this is coming from a person who still has the triton.The phantom is far more superior than the motif. If you are going to get the motif get the rack.

**Sinfamous** · 03-25-2004

Far more superior than the Triton too? =/

**Trusty** · 03-27-2004

Yeah, I think you may have bought into the Yammie hype. Remember, Yamaha makes good jet ski's and sissy motorbikes, not production gear. Read the manuals...they get their sproting goods and their production gear manuals confused sometimes. The Fantom X is the best SOUNDING workstation on the market. THey really up-ed everyone with the thing. It has the most expressive new patches in any synth. The Roland synth sounds have always been the best, imo, but the 'realistic' instruments emulations are letter perfect...even over Kurzweil. This is the one...if you want a workstation....and the sequencing and the skip back sampling make it all the more over that convoluted Yammie board. And Korg just about stinks all around in general.

**dirtymike** · 03-29-2004

Originally posted by Trusty
Yeah, I think you may have bought into the Yammie hype. Remember, Yamaha makes good jet ski's and sissy motorbikes, not production gear. Read the manuals...they get their sproting goods and their production gear manuals confused sometimes. The Fantom X is the best SOUNDING workstation on the market. THey really up-ed everyone with the thing. It has the most expressive new patches in any synth. The Roland synth sounds have always been the best, imo, but the 'realistic' instruments emulations are letter perfect...even over Kurzweil. This is the one...if you want a workstation....and the sequencing and the skip back sampling make it all the more over that convoluted Yammie board. And Korg just about stinks all around in general.

The Motif ES has that new mlan board that lets you dump 16 tracks in a single run. Dose the Fantom offer any advanced tracking features.