I don't think the Fantom G uses any Cosm effects on the Organs. I agree with all of you that the Organs on the Fantom G are not the best, to put it mildly.

The Fantom G series do have expandability (unlike the Motif XS on the other hand). The "new" ARX expansion boards increase the sound palette as well as providing much greater tweakability to individual sounds on the ARX card itself. There are two out now i.e. ARX-01(Drums) & ARX-02 (EP's). Roland recently announced the soon release of new ARX cards, possibly at Winter NAMM 2009. Maybe one of them will be an ARX Organ card, eh?

Yeah chas, I have the 'other' Fantom G7 on the forum. I've had mine since late May when I knew for sure that Roland would provide an update to the original factory shipped OS (which was buggy and lacked some necessary functionality - like multisampling for one).

Roland just released the newest OS update on November 6th. The new version is 1.20 and it added some neat stuff like better Sequencer functionality, bug fixes, and the ability to use "larger" USB Flash Drives i.e. (over 2GB in size). Plus with OS version 1.20 the RAM capacity has now doubled to 1GB instead of the 512MB that it was originally.

PS: Since the Fantom G is a 'true' "workstation" chas, you can fully "edit" the Organs to try and make them sound better if you wish. The easy solution is for Roland to provide an Organ ARX card though. We'll find out soon enough if the next and, soon to be released, batch of ARX cards includes one. That would be nice if they did.

Best,
Mike