Scott Tibbs of Roland U.S. wrote and produced that song for the ARX-03 Brass demo. That is the audio version of the demo on the website. The video demo, on the other hand, sounds like the guy used a couple midi phrase tracks from the original song by Scott Tibbs. The guy at NAMM apparently had imported the midi phrase tracks into the Fantom G and played them back using the song player while playing most of the parts live along with those one or two midi phrase tracks.

All I can say is it sounded really, really, really GOOD! REALLY good..

And no offense to spalding but those korg brass demos, in my opinion, are in a league "below" the Fantom G ARX-03 brass demo.

What I'm thinking (and I could be wrong) is that Roland is using some of the same technology they used in the V-Piano for the ARX-03 brass card. Instead of "Piano" they are simply incorporating it into "Brass" type of sounds. Furthermore, if this is any indication of "crossover" functionality within the V-Piano technology i.e. *Physical Modeling* used in other instrument sound types - the floodgates could shortly fling open for Roland where Roland trumps (strong arms) the competition, along with SAV, RX, DNC, SuperSolo, and everything else with it. By that I mean, if the sound realism that has been achieved in the V-Piano by Roland could then eventually be used for any and every other type of instrument sound found on a keyboard such as Brass , Strings, Organ, Guitar, etc., etc., then it could, theoretically, leave every other sound realism platitude reached so far by other manufacturers i.e. Yammie, Korg, Kurzweil, or whoever - in the dust and frantically trying to catch back up with Roland.

Yamaha and Korg or even Ketron or Kurzweil could, in the meantime, theoretically find the elusive holy grail of sound realism technology (although Roland seemingly may already possess it, eh? ) and they could eventually surpass Roland's marvel - but may prove unattainable or an unrealistic undertaking. Although not impossible mind you, because there is ALWAYS room for improvement. And Yamaha in particular seems to be very pronounced and aggresive in the area of R&D technology advancement and involvement.

Roland seems to have just upped the bar considerably though in my opinion.

And so far, all the others can only look on in amazement from the sidelines, with their jaws, no doubt, dropping in the process. That's how I feel about it anyway.

All the best,
Mike


[This message has been edited by keybplayer (edited 02-10-2009).]