Roland Fantom Xa Features Manual page 6

Loading and Playing an SMF
1. Press the SONG EDIT↔LIST button once or
twice to display the SONG LIST screen.
2. The Fantom-Xa displays the song list in the user memory
area by default. If you copied the SMF to card memory,
press F2 (CARD) to display its song list.
3. Turn the VALUE dial to select the SMF.
4. Press F6 (LOAD)—the Fantom-Xa warns you that the SMF
will replace the currently loaded song if you proceed.
If you'd like to preserve the currently loaded song, press EXIT and save the
song to user or card memory before returning to Step 1.
5. Press F6 (EXEC) to finish loading the SMF.
6. Press the SEQUENCER Play button to hear the song.
If your SMF plays back at the wrong tempo, don't worry—it simply
means that it has no Tempo setting of its own as of yet, so it's using the
performance's Tempo setting. We'll talk about changing an SMF's tempo
in a little bit.
What You See Is What You've Got
You can easily take a look at the patches your loaded SMF is
using, as well as a range of its mix-related settings. To do this:
1. Press LAYER/SPLIT to get back to the PERFORMANCE LAYER
screen.
2. Press F2 (PARTVIEW) to display the first of the PART VIEW
screens, where you can see the patches being used.
3. You can press F2-F6 to view other settings in the song.
Part View? What's a Part?
When the Fantom-Xa is in Performance mode—where you go
to play and edit songs—it can play up to 16 different sounds
at once. Each of these instruments is called a "part, " and has
its own collection of settings that determine its behavior and
how its sound plays. Every part plays the data for one of the 16
possible MIDI channels.
Here are two important things to know about parts:
• Parts 1-16 play MIDI Channels 1-16, respectively, by
default.
• Tracks 1-16 record and play back the MIDI data for MIDI
Channels 1-16, respectively, by default.
Therefore, even though parts, channels, and tracks are actually
three different things, with the Fantom-Xa's default settings,
they all might as well be one and the same, since Tracks 1-16
record and play data for MIDI Channels 1-16 using Parts 1-16.
Press 5 and 6 to
scroll up and down
through the SMF's
instruments.
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