Roland shot itself in the Fantom 06 foot ?

[alpal01]

Recently got a Roland Fantom 06, been trying to play GM and/or GM2 midi files on it, the idea being I could replace my Roland BK-7m with better sounds in the Fantom 06 to play from vArranger (BK-7m currently works fine doing that with it's factory arranger styles in vArranger).
Much to my amazement/anger it appears the Fantom 06 does not have GM/GM2 capability ! - this means it won't play any arranger songs, including Rolands, using the most common universal midi format in the world !!
Have contacted Roland for what it's worth.

On a different note, has anyone had any success in locating/downloading factory styles of arrangers ? - i.e. - the Roland E-A7, Yamaha Genos/Genos2, etc. ?       

[Dan]

I can see the FA06 includes a gm2 bank in the 121 bank
https://www.roland.com/fr/support/by_product/fa-08/owners_manuals/a3ba4253-4589-4975-8896-7a71c1184516/

Maybe you can set the GM2 mode in the OPTIONS/MIDIPORTS for that midi out.

The problem with that, is that it will probably not allows you to access sounds other than the GM2 ones

[alpal01]

Sorry Dan, I'm talking about the Fantom 06 - not the FA-06 - which yes, ironically the 'scaled down' FA-06 compared to the 06 would probably not only have GM2 capability but a more popular/user friendly linear sequencer as well.
Two strikes for the Fantom 06 !!

[Dan]

Yes that's bad, so you need to remap every sound and SAVE......
Maybe use it as a second synth source to add some good quality instruments that you will select