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Power User Control 2: The Pads
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- Page 1 ®ÂØÒňΠ® Fantom-G Workstation Keyboard Power User Control 2: The Pads © 2008, 2010 Roland Corporation U.S. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Roland Corporation U.S. FGWS03...
- Page 2 About the Workshop Booklets Introducing the Dynamic Pads Roland’s Fantom G6, G7, and G8—the Fantom-G family—set a new standard for excellence in workstation keyboards, with spectacular sounds and incredible built-in effect-processing muscle. A beautiful full-color LCD display and innovative performance features make getting around a pleasure and make the G6, G7, and G8 a dream to play.
- Page 3 Pad Modes Who Controls the Pads’ Mode? Each live set, studio set, and patch in the Fantom-G has its own settings for The Fantom-G’s 16 pads can work together to accomplish a variety the behavior of the pads, and the Fantom-G can automatically switch to of tasks quickly and easily.
- Page 4 The other Dynamic Pad System parameters are always globally set, and don’t Pad Exchange change with different live sets, studio sets, or patches. They are: In some pad modes, you can quickly swap pad • Pad Velocity— This parameter turns the pads’ velocity sensitivity on or settings.
- Page 5 Pad Mode 2—Rhythm Sample Pad 1-16 Settings With this parameter: You can: If you’d like the pads to play percussion sounds from a Sample Number select any sample in the current project rhythm set, select the Rhythm pad mode. In Live and Studio to be played by the pad.
- Page 6 Quick Setup You can use chord forms with the Fantom-G arpeggiator to construct complicated arpeggiated pitch patterns. In Rhythm pad mode, the Pad Settings window also offers a Quick Setup tool: F3 (Quick Setup). Each pad can be programmed to choose a specific chord form so that you Clicking this button reveals the can select the desired chord form by striking its pad with your right hand Quick Setup window that has some...
- Page 7 As an RPS phrase plays, its pad flashes. RPS phrases are really just standard phrases that contain musical passages. If there aren’t any phrases in the current project, there’s nothing there to use as an RPS phrase. You can find more details on RPS pad mode in the Playing Clips from the Fantom-G Pads Workshop booklet.
- Page 8 Pad Mode 6—Rhythm Ptn (“Pattern”) Global RPS Mode Settings With this parameter: You can: If you have sequenced phrases in a project that contain Velocity Sens determine the amount of velocity with beats, you can play them as rhythm patterns from the pads which the pad’s sounds play.
- Page 9 Pad Mode 7—Tone Sel/Sw Global Rhythm Pattern Pad Mode Settings With this parameter: You can: The Tone Sel/Sw (for “Tone Select/Switch”) pad mode is a Trigger Quantize set the way in which your rhythm great power tool when you’re editing patches. Each patch patterns start.
- Page 10 Pad Mode 8—Track Mute During many Fantom-G operations, hitting F8 (Exit) to leave a screen doesn’t really matter too much, but here it does. Your bookmark won’t You can use the pads to mute tracks as you sequence or be properly saved if you leave the Pad Setting screen without hitting record.
- Page 11 Pad Mode 11—Effect Switch Pad Mode 13—Part Select When you’re programming sounds, sequencing, recording, This pad mode is a killer time-saver when you’re working or mixing, the Effect Switch pad mode lets you turn most in Live or Studio modes, especially when you’re putting the Fantom-G’s effect processors on and off with the touch together or editing a live set or studio set.
- Page 12 Setting Up User Group Sounds • Single mode— User Groups can contain patches, rhythm sets, and To add a sound to a User Group, you register the sound in the desired User sample sets. Group bank. Here’s how: • Live mode— User Groups can contain live sets.
- Page 13 Numeric Entry Instead of pressing a pad in Step 3 above, you could also select the sound onscreen and press or click F8 (Select), but striking a sound’s One more thing: You can enter values on the pads, speeding up lots of pad is usually quicker and easier.
- Page 14 As soon as you begin typing numbers on the pads, the pads flash. When you’re done entering the desired characters and/or numbers press HOLD to enter them, or press ROLL to cancel them. If you start by typing characters from Pads 11, 12, 15, and 16, the pads won’t begin to flash until you type the digit(s) that follow.