Roland FA-08 88-Key Workstation
FA-08 88-Key Workstation. Roland’s new FA series reimagines the music workstation, streamlining it for effortless realtime power, ultra-fast workflow, and maximum versatility. Ready to support any type of music you play, the FA-08 comes with a massive sound collection inherited from the flagship INTEGRA-7, dozens of studio-quality effects, and expressive realtime controls, plus onboard sampling with zero load time for instant audio playback from the 16 backlit pads. The sequencer features simple operation and non-stop loop recording, letting you capture songs and ideas as they come and export them as multitrack data to use with your DAW. Flowing seamlessly into every part of your creative world, the FA series morphs instantly from standalone use to become the command center of your computer music studio, with USB audio/MIDI interfacing, powerful real-time controllers, DAW transport controls, and much more. No Work, All Play Music workstations play an important role for keyboardists in a wide range of creative activities, from live performance to song development to production in the studio. However, they can often be complicated and difficult to use to their full potential, bogging down the creative process and inhibiting the flow of ideas. In developing the FA series, Roland has completely reimagined the music workstation to provide musicians an inspiring platform that’s extremely powerful and versatile, yet simple and intuitive at the same time. With a streamlined interface and focused, practical features that maximize your creative flow, the FA series allows you to experience newfound freedom to deeply explore and develop your musical ideas with less effort than ever before. Perform and Record with a Massive Selection of Roland’s Very Best Sounds The true measure of any music workstation lies with the quality and diversity of its sounds. Filled with over 2000 tones directly inherited from the INTEGRA-7, Roland’s flagship pro sound module, the FA series truly d…
Product Features
- Light, mobile body with 88-note Ivory Feel-G KeyboardOver 2000 sounds from the flagship INTEGRA-7 sound module16-track sequencer with non-stop loop recordingExport sequencer tracks to SDHC card or as multitrack audio or MIDI to your DAWOnboard sampler based on the SP-404SX16 independent FX engines, six COMP+EQ processors, global EQ, chorus, and reverbSix user-assignable Sound Modify knobsD-Beam, Rhythm Pattern, Arpeggiator, and Chord Memory functionsGuitar/Mic and Line input jacksDedicated input
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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…
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…
Great keyboard. It was a toss up between this …