Mark here from Roland, and I'm very
excited to introduce the long awaited
Virtual Tonewheel engine
now made possible with the latest FANTOM
update Version 2.5.
Roland's Virtual Tonewheel engine
heralded from Roland's famous VK Series,
faithfully emulates the sound generating
process of a real tonewheel organ
in every way.
With nine harmonic bars to provide
classic hands on tone control
either by the touch screen or FANTOM's
physical sliders.
This new virtual tonewheel engine
gives the FANTOM the same full sound and
performance of a standalone combo
tonewheel organ, not just a sample
or a preset.
With great response, the sound is
really fat and organic, yet can cut
through with extra percussion parameters
and overdrive.
Quickly edit organ sounds and customized
vintage tonewheel characteristics such
as leakage, click noise and rotary
speed and easily build custom tones.
Knobs E1 through to E6 below the
touch screen have assigned dedicated
parameters of virtual tonewheel
organ making it super easy to tweak
your organ sounds.
If you press tone edit, or even
better, the parameter button, you will
have instant touchscreen access
to the virtual harmonic bars or in
fact slide FANTOM's physical
sliders.
The E1 knob lets you easily choose the
different tabs that give you parameter
windows that let you alter wheel,
overdrive, rotary, MFX
and MFX control.
Here, you can choose different types of
overdrive and tweak the level and
the drive of the distortion.
You can easily design your own rotary
speaker, as well as choose the different
available MFX and its parameters.
Here I can choose how wide
the spread of the rotary speaker is,
the levels of the different speakers
that are in the rotary, as well as how
fast they speed up and slow
down.
When the virtual Tonewheel model is
loaded, the knobs here in the synth
section now control different parameters
for your organ.
I can quickly select wheel break stop,
and spin,
and tonewheel speed up as well as select
the different types of organs Vintage
One, Vintage Two,
Solid and Clean.
And how much leakage is happening
between each tonewheel.
The ADRS knobs are now indicating
whether the rotary is spinning slowly
or quickly.
And in fact you can use the pitch
envelope buttons and the AMP envelope
buttons to speed up and slow down your
rotary.
Or the filter envelope button to brake.
And the AMP level gives us instant
access to the overdrive.
And last but not least, if I turn MFX
on, I can quickly select a different MFX
type and the depth of that effect.
Wheel One and Wheel Two, as well as
pitch bend and modulation also, give me
access to different parameters such
as wheel brake, tonewheel
speeding up and, of course, rotary
speed.
You can use physical switches and pedals
for controlling different parameters,
and it's very easy to assign.
Just hold down Shift, I'm going to press
S3 and now I can assign
that to one of the parameters,
overdrive, for example.
So now if I play,
I can quickly turn overdrive off and
on.
And here you see, I can select from
rotary speed, brake, switch,
overdrive on and off, the wheel brake,
vibrato chorus switch and harmonic
bar. Having a harmonic bar
set to S3 is very convenient
because you can quickly switch backwards
and forwards between the levels of
your mixer and then harmonic bar
for your virtual tonewheel organ.
FANTOM is an evolving platform with new
sounds and capabilities added regularly.
So please stay tuned because there might
be something more just around the
corner.
This free update gives you the massive
sound of a classic tonewheel organ
adding even more value to the incredible
FANTOM range.
Visit Roland.com for more info.
And thank you very much for watching.