PF Infinity in our live setup on the Roland Fantom EX
How a Sound Library Becomes Part of the Show
Playing Pink Floyd live means constantly shifting between different atmospheres, dynamics, and roles. A section might start with a pad, open up into an organ, transform into a lead, and give way to a sequence, all without interrupting the flow of the song.
On the Roland Fantom EX, PF Infinity allows us to build this workflow using Scenes designed around the music. The result is a setup that follows the song and gives the musician the freedom to focus on playing, listening, and the emotion of the moment. The package utilizes 20 Scenes and 76 Tones within the Fantom EX’s ZEN-Core architecture.
From Sound to Song
With the Fantom EX, the starting point is the song.
The Scenes dedicated to Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Learning to Fly, High Hopes, Sorrow, Keep Talking, Another Brick in the Wall, Time, Money, Us and Them, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell and other moments of the repertoire bring together pads, organs, electric pianos, leads, strings, synth basses, and effects within the same environment.
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Here, the sequence isn’t simply something that starts and runs on its own. It’s reconstructed using ZEN-Core synthesis, with dedicated tones, step LFOs, and performance controls. This way, the keyboard remains an active part of the song’s flow, and the musician continues to interact with what’s happening.
“The Dark Side of the Moon” also finds a particularly natural home on the Fantom EX: “Speak to Me/Breathe,” “Time,” “The Great Gig in the Sky,” “Money,” “Us and Them,” “Any Color You Like,” and “Brain Damage/Eclipse” traverse different timbres, effects, and sections, yet are organized as moments within the same narrative.
The same principle applies to Shine, Sorrow, Keep Talking, and Learning to Fly: tracks from very different periods in Pink Floyd’s history, yet all sharing the need to have multiple elements ready to come in at exactly the right moment.
On stage, it's all about the FLOW
At a concert, what matters is being able to follow the music without losing track of what’s happening on stage.
On the Fantom EX, Scenes become the focal point of the performance: using SW Groups, you can control different elements of the same arrangement while remaining within the environment set up for that piece.
For us, this is where PF Infinity really comes into its own.
The setup becomes part of the performance. The next step is already planned; the right sound is already embedded in the context of the song, and technology ceases to be something to manage and instead becomes something that accompanies the music.
The 76 Tones also offer another option: they can be used outside the package’s Scenes, either in custom setups or in a pre-built rig. This allows us to take an organ, a pad, a lead, or an effect and adapt it to the needs of our arrangement.
It’s an approach that interests us precisely because it leaves room for personalization: the library provides the material, but on stage that material becomes part of our style of playing.
PF Infinity – Pink Floyd Premium Pack
Roland Fantom EX · 20 Scene · 76 Tone