Activating Looped Playback; Clearing A Song - Roland Fantom-X User Manual

Activating Looped Playback

1. Once you've set up your loop, press F7 (Loop) so the
onscreen button turns red to activate the loop.
2. Move to a song location before the loop and press PLAY.
3. To end looping, press F7 (Loop) again so it's not lit.
You can turn playback looping on or off using a connected foot switch. This
is great for live performance, since you can create a solo-section loop that
lasts exactly as long as the soloist's inspiration does.

Clearing a Song

The Fantom-X can hold one song at a time in its work RAM,
described in detail in the Workshop series booklet Smart
Storage in the Fantom-X. Before you can record a new song,
you'll need to clear the current song.
Be sure to save any recording you want to keep before clearing the current
song—otherwise it's gone forever. We'll explain how to save a song later.
To clear a song:
1. On the Song Edit screen, press F3 (Song Clear).
2. When the Fantom-X asks if you're sure you want to
proceed, press F8 (Exec) to finish clearing the song, or F7
(Cancel) to abort the operation.
Setting Up a Song's Performance
Whether you've quickly recorded an idea in Patch mode, or
you're deliberately setting out to record a song, serious work
on a song begins with the gathering together of its sounds,
effects and more in a performance.
Its setup is merely your performance's starting point. You can
tweak its settings as your song progresses.
Selecting a Stored Performance
Select a stored performance to use as is, or as the basis for a
new performance.
As shipped from the factory, the Fantom-X contains 33 preset performances
designed as starting points for your songs. These performances contain
basic setups in a variety of musical styles, and are configured for
multi-track recording. A good general-use setup is PRST:01 Seq:Template.
To select a saved performance:
1. Press MIXER.
2. Press F5 (Perf List).
3. Press F2 (↓) and/or F1 (↑) to select the area of memory in
which the desired performance is stored.
To select one of the built-in starting-point setups, select Preset.
4. Turn the VALUE dial to select the desired performance.
The starting-point setups are Preset Performances 1-33. Each performance's
name begins with "Seq" for "sequencing," and ends with the name of the
style of music for which it's designed.
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