Roland 76-key Music Workstation (FA-07)
Taking the “work” out of the music workstation Workstations play an important role in a wide range of creative activity including performance on stage and music production in the studio, and are used by numerous musicians and creative people. Not content with simply making a convenient product that lets you do a variety of things, Roland has rethought and redesigned a new workstation with a new philosophy: regardless of how times and technologies may change, deliver maximum support for creating new music, with creativity as the top priority.
Product Features
- Reimagined music workstation designed to maximize your creative flow
- A top-class sound engine is built in, providing the latest Supernatural Acoustic, Supernatural Synth, and PCM sounds, as well as support for expansion slots to accommodate Wave expansion sounds
- Over 2000 sounds from the flagship INTEGRA-7 sound module, including Supernatural synth and acoustic tones and drums; add even more tones via internal wave sound expansion slots
- Supernatural synth engine is fully compatible with the expansive collection of free INTEGRA-7 synth tones available from Roland’s Axial sound library site
- Intuitive, streamlined interface with large color LCD
- Press one button to instantly configure the FA-07 for use with your DAW via USB
- Guitar/Mic and Line input jacks for performing, sampling, and DAW audio recording; dedicated input reverb provides ambience for performing/recording
- USB ports for sound expansion data, updates, and audio/MIDI interfacing with a computer; MIDI communication with the iPad is possible when using Apple’s iPad Camera Connection Kit
- Polish your sounds with a multitude of studio-quality effects, including 16 independent MFX engines, six COMP+EQ processors for drums, unique TFX (total effects), and global EQ, chorus, and reverb
- Onboard sampler based on the SP-404SX features 16 pads x 4 banks and direct recording/playback via SDHC cards
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*Good Workstation that could have been better. *021818 Update. Found out a couple of major negatives after finishing a song and attempting to mix it down to a WAV file. For some incredible reason, Roland decided to not allow samples assigned to the pads to be mixed down with MIDI tracks meaning, if you arrange a song that uses samples triggered by the pads, the stereo mix down will be absent of those samples. This is straight up BS when my old Fantom G6 could accomplish this task very easily. Samples have to be exported separately on the…
Real piano keybed and high quality tones I bought this awesome synth a couple of months ago and it doesnât stop amazing me with the quality of its tones and how well built it is. When I was out there comparing the keyboards I focused on three only: Korg Kronos, Yamaha MOXF8 and, Roland FA08. I liked the sounds and interface of Korg but not the keybed; it felt like an artificial thing. I liked the Yamaha keybed but not the tones; they didnât sound bright enough. They felt like old sounds to me. When I tried Roland it was love at first…
I was scared as hell with this purchase! I love it!… i walked away from roland many years ago because of the poor sounding piano sounds on the fantom ( i almost got depressed becausr those things didn’t come cheap). I was a little scare to buy this but the demos and videos in Youtube kept me hooked so i decided to go for it…. with no regrets!!… the workflow is awesome plus you can tweak any sound to make more likeable to your ears or to the mix…Downside: the brasses could be better out of the box, even the ones you…