Thanks Mike. To be honest, i really dont get into sampling or editing with the keyboard myself, but i was more curious as to how loading songs or midi files works. i know you can only load one at a time, but i know in the motif you can load several and then save it as an all song file. so the next time you go to load those files all you have to do is load the all songs file. i wanted to know if that can be done on the fantom. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Tyo To: ddots-l Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 12:30 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: fantom x Hi Omar, I have the Fantom X6, and though I like the unit, it's really not that accessible, even in trying to edit parameters and do your own sample creations; so I can't imagine what a nightmare it would be to try and deal with the sequencer. I tried to work with the editor that came with it, but no luck there either. The controls aren't accessible, and I don't know if you could develop hot spots for it, even with a sighted person helping you. One of the tech guys I spoke with at Roland told me that even for a sighted person, the editor's a pain in the rear-end because of the layout of it, etc. Perhaps there's something out there that I don't know about that integrates with Sonar. that'll work with the Fantom; if not, then you're pretty much in the dark unless you've got somebody who's willing to be over your shoulder all the time who can inturprit the screens properly for you. If you have partial sight, then you'll probably be fine with it. As I said, I like the keyboard for what it does, but since I've gotten into Sonar and Soft Synths, I've been slowly moving away from using the Fantom as my main source of instrumentation. I have a couple of Boss drum machines as well that I'm rarely using now; one of which is the DR-880. It's a pretty neat box, but man it's a bear programming it. I went so far as to try and build audio files describing the various menus and functionality within the menus on that unit along with the Fantom, but it turned out to be counterproductive. I wish you all the best on this though. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Omar Binno To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 23:43 Subject: [ddots-l] Re: fantom x no. i'm refering to one of the x keyboards like the x6, x7, or x8.