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Roland Fantom G6 Workshop Manual

Single mode in the fantom-g workstation keyboard
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Workstation Keyboard
Single Mode in the Fantom-G
© 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.
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  • Page 1 ®ÂØÒňΠ® Fantom-G Workstation Keyboard Single Mode in the Fantom-G © 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. FGWS05...
  • Page 2: About This Booklet

    Right click possibilities, and sound-design opportunities. Each Fantom-G Workshop Series booklet focuses on one Fantom-G topic, and is intended as a companion to the Fantom G6/G7/G8 Owner’s Manual. Scroll wheel This booklet requires Fantom-G Operating System v1.30 or higher. You can download the latest Fantom-G O.S.
  • Page 3: Keyboard Area

    The Single Play Screen In Single mode, each patch has its own PFX, well as its own chorus and reverb settings. You can also apply MFX 1 to an audio input or audio In the Fantom-G, each mode’s Play screen acts as its home screen. Here’s track output, and you can use the Fantom-G’s mastering effect on the what you’ll see on the Single Play screen when you press the SINGLE MODE entire output.
  • Page 4 • Part Number— In Single mode, the keyboard part is always Part 1 when Dynamic Pad Area you’re using internal sounds. The number of parts you can select with an EXP board depends on the board’s capabilities. The Dynamic Pad area of the Single Play screen provides a window onto— and some control of—the Fantom-G’s pads.
  • Page 5: Transposing The Keyboard

    Realtime Control Area Help Area The Fantom-G’s realtime controls let you temporarily re-shape sounds Underneath the Control slider settings area, you’ll find the Help area where on-the-fly in Single mode—we’ll discuss them in the Manipulating Sounds in you can see the name of the parameter that’s currently selected on the Realtime Workshop booklet.
  • Page 6 Transposing the Keyboard by Semitones The Patch List Screen in Depth To transpose the keyboard by half-steps, or “semitones”: The Patch List Screens Press the TRANSPOSE button so it lights. To transpose the keyboard: There are actually several Patch List screens—the one you want depends on what kind of sound it is you’re looking to play on the keyboard.
  • Page 7 Selecting a Sample Set for the Keyboard Beneath the patch list are the MIDI Bank Select and Program Change values for the selected patch, information you’ll need if you wish to A sample set is a type of patch that plays samples already loaded in select Fantom-G patches from an external MIDI device such as a DAW.
  • Page 8 Customizing the Preview Feature To select a sound from a sound bank in an external device simply by selecting a patch on the Fantom-G, set the desired sound’s Bank Select If a musical phrase isn’t the way you want to check out your sounds, you can MSB and LSB values on the Single Play screen using the Type and Bank change the way Preview works.
  • Page 9 Selecting a Rhythm Set for the Pads Editing Single Mode’s Parts When the pads are in the Rhythm pad mode, here’s how to select the rhythm As you may have figured out with our earlier mentions of the Single Play set they play from the Single Play screen: screen’s Part Number and Pad Part parameters, Single mode has parts just like Live mode and Studio mode even though they’re not quite as visible.
  • Page 10 The Single Mode Part Parameters Group: Available Settings: Output/EFX These parameters allow you to set the output Here’s what you can do with each Single mode Part View parameter group. destination of Internal or EXP part sounds. When the keyboard’s part group is: Some of the following descriptions involve sound-programming terms.
  • Page 11 Group: Available Settings: Mono/Poly/Legato With these Internal-part parameters, you can set a part’s sound to be monophonic or polyphonic, and you can set it to move from note to note in a legato manner. MIDI Rx Filter For Internal, EXP, and External parts, this group sets whether a part responds to various MIDI control-change messages.
  • Page 12 About Using Effects in Single Mode In addition to being able to use the global chorus and reverb, each patch, rhythm set, and sample set in Single mode has its own patch effect, or “PFX. ” You can select a new PFX for your keyboard sound, or edit the current one, by clicking F5 (PFX) on the Single Play screen.

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