Affordable multifaceted sampling!

If you crave Fantom power, but want a more cost-effective way to Fantomize your rig, Roland has the perfect synth for you. Meet the Fantom-Xa-a 61-key multifaceted sampling workstation with an affordable price tag! The Fantom-Xa includes many of the most popular features from the top-of-the-line Fantom, including 128-voice polyphony, Skip Back Sampling, a high-resolution built-in sequencer, realtime audio time-stretching, COSM modeling effects, mastering processing, USB port, WAV/AIFF compatibility, D-Beam control, SRX expansion, and more. Four line outputs, mic/stereo line input.

Roland Fantom-Xa 61-Key Workstation Features:

• Sampling workstation with 61-note keyboard
• 128 voices
• High-resolution sequencer
• Seamless integration of audio and MIDI using ROM waves and sampling with realtime time-stretch capability
• Skip Back Sampling - continuous sampling for recording, sound design, and audio rescue
• 128 new patches, plus all Fantom-S preset patches and waves onboard
• 4MB sample RAM expandable up to 516MB via DIMMs
• 3 MFX processors, plus dedicated reverb, chorus, and a mastering processor
• Expandable via an optional SRX-Series Wave Expansion Board
• USB port for MIDI and WAV/AIFF file exchange with PC or Mac
• 4 line outputs (2 stereo or 4 mono), and mic/stereo line input

High-end sampling, COSM modeling, slick USB connectivity. What are you waiting for? Order today!

Roland Fantom-Xa 61-Key Workstation

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Die Hard Xa Owner

Posted by RedEyeC from Deming, NM. on Jul 2, 2007

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active musician and Recording Artist

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock; Pop; Ambient.

I bought a new Roland Fantom Xa over 2 years ago and have used it constantly since then. These Rock instrumentals are all Xa used with my Ibanez JS1000 guitar leads. Just now is my Xa starting to get a little tired after being powered on for a few hours and all 16 tracks in the sequencer used during recording. I just save performance, let it cool down for a bit, then power-up later to continue. One thing with the Xa - when creating a performance, don't be impatient forwarding and reversing measures and erasing / redoing - you'll freeze it. It works great at it's own pace. I have mine loaded with the SRX-7 and 512 megs of sampling ram. An awesome piece of machinery - I'd buy it again in a heartbeat if it were to finally die on me.

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Nice Bang for the Buck

Posted by choctawfluteman from CT on Apr 25, 2007

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Alternative ethnic

I have had the XA for 2 weeks now and have been having a blast with it. This is my first keyboard work station so I knew there would be a learning curve with it. The manual is next to useless, however there are some good tutorials on the Roland site. I had hoped that it would be easier to tweak the sounds on the fly in a gig but it seems more suited for composing when you have time to work through one sequence at a time, there is a lot of potential here but the learning curve is kind of steep but in the end I think it will be worth it!! It's been a bit of a chore to find the older RAM to max it out to 512mb and having to use a PC card adapter for a smart media card or CF is a bit of a pain. As far as the LCD screen goes it is great for what it is, not hard to read at all.

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I Would Buy It Again

Posted by Mr Blue Sky from Cleveland Ohio on Apr 17, 2007

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician, Record producer

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Motown, Disco, Country, Hip Hop,

This is an awesome board. Once you familiarize yourself with the controls and where everything is at, you can pretty much do anything you want with this board. The sounds overall are topnotch as are the effects. My only complaint with the sounds are that the organs seem a step backwards from the XP line...so I still have my XP50 for the organs. This is the first keyboard I've used that gets realistic guitar sounds out of a keyboard. The stock guitar sounds in the Fantom need a little tweaking to get them dialed in, but when you do watch out. The sequencer took me some time to get used to as I've been using a Roland MC300 for almost 20 years.... and now it is collecting dust on the shelf. I really like the keypad triggers which are great for triggering samples during live performances and extremely useful for recording drum trax. I bought it when it was a lower price, this is an unbeatable board. Performance mode is absolutely fantastic, and you can lay out a whole bunch of different sounds and layers with this keyboard, which has allowed me to quit carrying 4 keyboards and just go with 2 now.

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Great Workstation for one on budget!!

Posted by Lottsic from Sacramento, CA on Dec 25, 2006

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Producer (7 years)

Reviewer's Play Style: Hip hop, R&B, Dance, Club

I've had this keyboard for about 3 months..

I personally feel that Fantom Xa gives me a certain vibe that pulls me away from my ideas. Sometimes when i have an idea and want to immeadiatly record it it takes a lot of time to move through screens and by the time i get to start recording my ideas are gone.

The features are there... but the keys feel horrible and buttons are very loud. It has 10 pads that I never really used. The screen is hard to see and you'd have to lean forward. It has a built-in sequencer which is great but a little hard to use. I lost my data few times when working with sequencer.

Bottom line is I am very serious about my ideas, sounds, and quality of workstaion, and fantom xa feels more commercial to me than inspiring. But thats just me, you might really like it.. everyone has different personalities.

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Roland Fantom-XA 61-Key Workstation

Posted by Anonymous Musician from New Jersey on Oct 11, 2006

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician, Recording Engineer

Reviewer's Play Style: Everything

The only thing I'd like to see improved would be additional expantion bays... I'd have also liked to have more Ram out of the box, but the installation is a cake walk.

The features are top notch... took a bit of a learning curve, but once you go through it a few times, the controls are simple.

I love the editing software! Plugged my Powerbook in and was programing in seconds. I'm an knob and slider guy, and that is exactly what the editor looks like on the screen.

WELL worth the cost, you'd be hard pressed to find another workstation for the money even remotely comparable.

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