Korg Nautilus vs Fantom 06

[dwayne00]

Hello all,
I am looking at getting a new synth workstation. I'm looking at the Korg Nautilus or Roland Fantom 06. I'm reaching out to see if anyone has used any of these and what are your likes and dislikes for each. For what I'm looking for which is the ability to import your own sounds into the board and some sampling capability. I'm also looking for something that has a wide variety of sounds as well. I like using the SD card for saving projects, but it looks like the Korg doesn't have that but it's not a deal breaker. What are your comparisons?

 

[anotherscott]

For gigging purposes, the Fantom-06 at 13.25 lbs is a lot more appealing to me than Nautilus 61 at 28.66 lbs (and, I believe, difficult to grip as well). But if not for that, I'd take the Nautilus, despite not having all the front panel controls. It's just a more capable board overall. (And to my ears and for my uses at least, largely the better sounding one.) In terms of interface, each does some things better than the other.

To your question about user samples, the Nautilus gives you tons of internal memory for that on its SSD, Fantom-0 is far more limited. If you're talking about bringing in sampled instruments to be played from the keyboard, the Fantom-0 has only 256 mb, which itself is shared with Roland-supplied expansions.

 

[dwayne00]

For gigging purposes, the Fantom-06 at 13.25 lbs is a lot more appealing to me than Nautilus 61 at 28.66 lbs (and, I believe, difficult to grip as well). But if not for that, I'd take the Nautilus, despite not having all the front panel controls. It's just a more capable board overall. (And to my ears and for my uses at least, largely the better sounding one.) In terms of interface, each does some things better than the other.

To your question about user samples, the Nautilus gives you tons of internal memory for that on its SSD, Fantom-0 is far more limited. If you're talking about bringing in sampled instruments to be played from the keyboard, the Fantom-0 has only 256 mb, which itself is shared with Roland-supplied expansions.

Thanks, for that. That's good info. When you mentioned that Fantom-0 only has 256 mb, that might be a deal breaker or unless if the memory can be expanded.