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Roland Fantom-G Workshop Manual

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The Fantom-G Possibilities
© 2008, 2009, 2010 Roland Corporation U.S.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the
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  • Page 1 Workshop ®ÂØÒňΠ® Fantom-G Workstation Keyboard The Fantom-G Possibilities © 2008, 2009, 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. FGWS01...

  • Page 2: About This Booklet

    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. For recording, the Fantom-G contains a powerful 152 MIDI/audio track sequencer. Each Fantom-G can also host two Roland ARX SuperNATURAL™...

  • Page 3: The Display

    Hold It To add a sustain pedal to the Fantom-G, connect a damper pedal such as a Roland DP-2 or DP-10 to the rear-panel HOLD jack. Now Hear This For this booklet, you can listen to your G through headphones connected to the PHONES jack, or by connecting its 1/L/MONO and 2/R OUTPUT jacks jacks to an mixer, interface, or amplifier attached to speakers.
  • Page 4 Value dial: You select something on the display using the buttons. This lets the Fantom-G know what it is you want to change. You make the change you want using the Value dial.
  • Page 5 Exploring the Fantom-G Sounds Live Mode and Live Sets The Fantom-G is more than anything else about Live mode, where you can select “live sets. ” A live set is a combination of • eight patches, rhythm sets, or sample sets, along with their patch effects, or “PFX”—from the Fantom-G’s internal memory.
  • Page 6 PRST 001: System G, the first preset live set, does more than just show off the great sound of the Fantom-G—it also shows you how you can split and layer patches in a live set. (If System G isn’t already selected, use the previous steps to select it now.)
  • Page 7 If no KBD switches are turned on, when you haven’t manually selected any other parts, the first part’s sound plays. Otherwise in the Fantom-G, when there are no KBD switches turned on, the part that’s currently selected plays. Press 6 until you’ve selected the second part and play the TickerBs patch.
  • Page 8 RPS phrases are provided since they tend to be more complex. To stop playback of an RPS phrase, strike its flashing pad. We’ll discuss RPS phrases in detail in the Playing Clips from the Fantom-G Pads Workshop booklet.
  • Page 9 Patterns, RPS, Arpeggios, and Chord Memory Workshop booklet. Go Exploring Now’s a good time to check out the other amazing live sets in the Fantom-G. So far, we’ve been selecting live sets using the Live Set Number parameter, but there’s an easier way. Press the LIVE MODE button to return to the Live Play screen, and then press F5 (LiveSet List) to view all of your available live sets.

  • Page 10: Single Mode

    (With ARX cards installed, you’ve got even more.) As you switch from one live set to another, the Fantom-G holds onto all of the currently playing notes and effects as it loads the second live set’s sounds and effects in preparation for the next notes you’ll play.
  • Page 11 We’ll talk more about your options in the Single Mode in the Fantom-G Workshop booklet. The Patch List Screen Probably the best way to find patches on the Fantom-G is on the Patch List screen. To get there: Navigate to the Single Play screen by pressing the SINGLE button.
  • Page 12 However, since we’ve been doing other things since powering up, we’ll reload the song to make sure it plays correctly. The demo songs contain special data they send to the Fantom-G as they load, or at power-up. (Your own songs won’t require reloading to play correctly.) The Fantom-G plays a single song at a time, though each project can hold up to 50 songs—we’ll explain projects in the Saving Your Work...
  • Page 13 7 of the Power User Control Workshop booklet to learn how. About Studio Mode and Studio Sets You can record ideas on the Fantom-G in both Live mode and Single mode, but full-on song production happens in Studio mode. That’s where you can work with the many sounds you need for a full song arrangement, where you can add the effects you need, and where you can mix a song.
  • Page 14 “recording” for the process of capturing live audio onto tracks. Each time you sequence in the Fantom-G, you create a chunk of MIDI data called a “phrase. ” The phrase is assigned to a MIDI track in your song for playback.
  • Page 15 With the Fantom-G’s Auto-Track feature turned on—as it is by default— recording automatically takes place on the same-numbered track as the part you’ve got selected. If you’d like to select a different sound for this track—though going to go with the already-selected G-Grand patch—you can press F6 (Patch List) and select the patch you want using the method we described on Page 11.
  • Page 16 SMF (for “Standard MIDI File”) your DAW will likely be able to load. You can save any set of sounds you’ve put together during recording as a studio set, as described in the Saving your Work on the Fantom-G Workshop booklet. Otherwise, they’ll be saved with your song when you save it—the same booklet describes how to do this.

  • Page 17: Recording An Audio Track

    We’ll discuss how memory works in the Saving Your Work on the Fantom-G Workshop booklet. The process of recording audio onto a Fantom-G song track has two stages: Selecting an audio track you want to record on. Recording the track.
  • Page 18 Watch your input level in the Audio Rec standby window’s meters as you sing into your mic or play your instrument as loud as you intend Reach around the back of the Fantom-G and turn the LEVEL knob —it’s located just to the right of the MIC/GUITAR jack as viewed from the Fantom-G’s playing position—to set your level as loud as possible...

  • Page 19: Skip Back Sampling

    Fantom-G’s sampling capabilities. The Fantom-G is actually a full-featured sampler that lets you use sampled beat loops or any other sound in your music. Here are some of the things you can do with the Fantom-G sampler: • You can sample any audio—...
  • Page 20 You can trim your Skip Back sample so that it’s got only the passage you want to keep, using the same editing tools you’d use for any other Fantom-G sample. We’ll explain how to edit and work with samples in the Fantom-G Sampling Workshop booklet.

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