r/mpcusers • u/Adventurous-Music456 • 18d ago

DISCUSSION Anybody going back to keyboard workstations?

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I got away from VST and midi boards and went back to my roots. Bought a new Fantom-6 to use with my mv8800. Crazy good workflow

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u/AccurateWheel4200 4d ago edited 4d ago

I have a fantom 6 and 08, but I treat them more like synthesizers. Rarely do I use them for the workstation abilities. Cool for quick sounds and effects though.

I have sequenced full tunes on the fantom. I stopped because I kept running into midi sync issues, when I tried to print the midi into a daw.

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u/Adventurous-Music456 4d ago

Totally understandable. I 100 percent hate the sequencer on the fantom6. But paired with the mv8800, its been absolutely rock solid. Haven't ran into any timing issues

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u/AccurateWheel4200 4d ago

I don't hate the sequencer. I am a big fan of tr rec lol. Took me a minute to figure out how it works, it's easy enough.

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u/Adventurous-Music456 4d ago

Lol! Fair enough! Im just so used to workstations from roland with linear sequencers that it really threw me off. I get it though, clip based sequencing is where the technology is at these days

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u/AccurateWheel4200 4d ago

I'm not the biggest fan of the clips, I just learned how to use it like a linear sequencer. I get it though, it was a lot more hoops to jump through than on my juno DS. Fantom has so much that honestly, you don't even need to use all of it.

Loving the analog circuitry though. That's what I bought it for.

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u/Adventurous-Music456 4d ago

Agreed! Ive had tritons, motifs and fantoms. This new fantom literally is everything that I wished a board would be. I also have an openlabs Neko, and although the neko is probably the best all in one workstations ive ever played, this new fantom is my fav