There are a bevy of new sounds using what Roland calls its 'ZenCore' engine. There"s an entire V-Piano engine built in, based on Roland"s modeling-based digital piano.
Below that is a row of jolly, candy-like buttons (old Ren & Stimpy reference for my Gen-Xers) to select categories of single instrument sounds, called Tones in Roland parlance. There is even a real analog filter as well as modeled filters. Yes, you have the obligatory knobs-and-faders bank as on any modern workstation, but then over on the right there"s a dedicated synth section with dedicated controls for filters, envelopes, you know ⦠all the fun stuff. What immediately grabbed my attention about it â other than what I think is one of the cooler industrial designs I"ve seen on a keyboard in recent years â was the sheer amount of real-time control. So, it"s intriguing to see Roland advance the new Fantom, a keyboard workstation that"s a proud generalist. The hardware boom of recent years, however, has favored specialist instruments from analog synths to drawbar organs to Eurorack.
Once upon a time, and seemingly yesterday to myself and I"m sure a lot of folks on these forums, the do-it-all synth workstation was king of the keyboards.
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