TerryW wrote:Okay, the Nord has more splits and layers and has drawbar sliders,
Actually, the Roland has more splits and layers. Check
https://www.roland.com/us/rtv/product_s ... tutorials/ and there's a 3-part video for Advanced Layers and Splits, and then a 4-part video that goes further.
As for drawbars, there was an aftermarket drawbar module
http://www.oceanbeachdigital.com/products.html but it's been discontinued. If you have an Ipad, you can at least do drawbar manipulation with an app, scroll down toward the bottom of the page at
https://mididesigner.com/qa/3093/roland ... nth-editorkbrkr wrote:I've checked every FA-06 and FA-07 video and it really looks like a dynamite keyboard. There are some concerns, however; For one, there is no Chorus on the Organ patches. I used to have a Roland VK8M module and it was amazing.
Yeah, there's no C/V in the tonewheel organ emulation. I believe there are some rompler organ sounds with C/V (if not stock, then in the axial SRX downloads), but of course, they are very limited in other respects. The VK8M was definitely a better Roland organ than what's in the FA. It also had all the nice COSM amp emulations.
Graspieper wrote:a very glossy & scratch prone surface, ...
solvable...
http://forums.rolandclan.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=53680Graspieper wrote:The organ sim on the FA is not bad, but the rotary sim is not so good; I paired it with a Neo Vent to overcome this.
and it's nice that the FA has the sub out feature to more easily facilitate that.
The FA-07 lags the Nord in the hands-on immediacy of its controls, aftertouch, the cool pitch stick, the quality of the organ/rotary sound, the quality/variety of the piano sounds, the library of mellotron/chamberlin and other less common vintage analog keyboard sounds, the ability to load custom samples mapped across the keyboard. OTOH, the FA is a lot less expensive and actually also includes some functionalities the Nord lacks (sequencer, trigger pads, 16-channel multi-timbral ability) and it has a library of rompler acoustic instrument sounds that are generally better than Nord's (strings, brass, woodwinds, etc.). Two very nice boards, with some different strengths.