Roland Fantom 8 Sounds

[Patrizia Leones]

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I was just tried purchasing a Fantom XA on CL. I thought I had scored a great deal... $400. The seller has been out of work a year and desperately needed the cash. The sellers hadn't used it in over a year and doesn't even play keyboards. The seller didn't have an amp and I didn't bring headphones. We met in a parking lot between both of us. It looks in almost brand new condition... very clean and had the original box and discs. Still I made the big mistake of not scrolling through the patches before handing him $400. I got it home, powered it up and it's producing distorted, unstable sound audio. This unit is unplayable. I immediately contacted the seller and he apologized and claimed he did not know that it was not in complete working order. The last time it had been used was about 1 year ago. He is happy to to refund my money and he apologized for any inconvenience.

I can chalk this up to a frequent Roland issue. See I've had this happen before... -central.com/showthread.php?2175430-Fantom-S-Some-MFX-or-control-setting-is-driving-my-patches-crazy&highlight=fantom+s+volume+pot I owned a Roland Fantom S a few years back these was doing something very similar. Whenever I would strike the keys aggressively I would get a squelching sound. It was hard to replicate and I turned it in to a repair center it sat for months until the tech could finally trigger it. It turned out to be a faulty volume pot, and all of the real time controllers needed replacement... I can't tie money up that long with a board I can't use. I am meeting the buyer tomorrow to return the keyboard but I feel a little bad for him. He really needed the money and this unit is pristine. The volume knob ahas a little wobble. All I can figure is that he either nudged it slightly OR it's just age. This is exactly why I didn't want to buy NEW a Juno Di or GI... I don't really trust Roland's quality these days.

It could be a bad solder point on the output section (sounds terrible with headphones as well). The worst would be defective ROM.... but my guess is it has to do with the volume section as midi functions fine and the same issue cannot be consistently replicated on the same keys? What are the odds that two boards, different models have nearly the same issues... except that they share the same defective potimeters.

I used to love Roland gear (the old stuff) but they decided to cut corners on the things that people don't notice while raising prices. I've always thought since the digital synths came out that Roland synths sounded thin at times but that never bothered me nearly as much as the cutting corners part. It's going to take a long time for them to regain the popularity and trust they once had. I'm not even sure if they care though since all the hip hoppers are buying their gear.

I'll agree to an extent. My Roland XP30 is 13 years old and some buttons require a few pushes to engage the features. But my god I've gigged over a decade in all sorts of environments with that little tank. And it still holds up... it just needs a good cleaning.

My Triton LE on the other hand began falling apart two years after purchase. Buttons began flaking, dead keys, memory corruption issues and some weird sound issues when gigging in older rooms with bad power.

My Triton Extreme's volume pot flaked (it's a carbon filter had ripped) 5 years after purchase. When the technician opened the unit to replace it, the wiring to the touchscreen distnergrated (in his words).

Seriously though, I am sure Roland will fix it for free [that is, if the seller didn't do something weird to it, like leaving it exposed to sunlight/other electrical devices for a very long time and stuff like that. Who knows]. And Roland *will* know if the unit was defective as it exited the factory or if something happened to it *after* it was shipped to resellers.

I had two brand new Roland controllers bad out of the box 2 years ago. I've used nothing but Korg gear since the mid-80's and 100% of it still works as if it were new... I'm not gentle with any of it.

But as far as Roland digital synths (as stated above), they stopped using good components and they have a high failure rate. I've torn them apart and referenced checked parts. That's not bashing, that's fact.

That's why Yamaha sells more workstations than all of them. They don't have the most features, and do the minimum acceptable in some areas... but boy, their stuff is built well. Even the cheaper stuff.

The only synth I've had that I've had to fix was my Roland D-550. And guess what it was? The output OP amps gave up the ghost and all I got was horrible noise. But at least those lasted over 20 years...

Oh and I've recently parted ways with the Alesis Fusion, those also had noise issues, but they had to do with their volume pots. Mine was no exception - as long as I stayed under the 3pm mark I was usually fine. After that it was crackling hell (only when you moved it though...)

I think Korg gives you the most for your money. And I like the architecture. I've had screen problems on two Korgs. But I stay with Korg because it was visionary enough to integrate Stephen Kay's invention into its top synths. Yamaha or Roland would have never done that.

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