Then in 2003, the Fantom-S offered seamless integration of audio and MIDI with advanced sampling features plus mastering effects, and USB file exchange.
It boasted an expandable sound engine and digital outputs and at the time had everything you could ever want in a workstation keyboard. This 76-key workstation featured professional quality sounds from the XV-5080 which had the highest performance sound generator of its time and a wide range of realtime performance functions. It had a large graphic LCD and centralized control of its many different functions.
In 2001, the original Roland Fantom was heralded as a new breed of workstation.