Roland Fantom Xa Features Manual page 7

Selecting a Part/Track
The Fantom-Xa's PART/TRACK buttons make it really fast and
easy to select a part/track/channel for playing or editing. There
are eight buttons and 16 parts/tracks. Here's how they work.
To select a part/track:
1. Press the SELECT button to the left of the PART/TRACK
buttons—this tells the Fantom-Xa you want to select a
part/track.
2. To select:
• Part/Track 1-8—make sure the 9-16 button to the right
of the PART/TRACK buttons is unlit, and then press the
desired Part/Track 1-8 button, as labeled above the
buttons in white.
• Part/Track 9-16—make sure the 9-16 button to the
right of the PART/TRACK buttons is lit, and then press
the desired Part/Track 9-16 button, as labeled above
the buttons in gray.
Customizing an SMF
You can do as many things to an SMF as you can to a song
you've recorded on the Fantom-Xa. The following sections
discuss some tweaks that people commonly make.
If you change an SMF's sounds, or tweak its settings, your changes most
likely won't stick once you start playback of the song from the beginning.
We'll explain how to deal with this in "Getting Sticky," later on.
Saving a Customized SMF
Once you've edited an SMF, we recommend you re-save it
to user or card memory as a Fantom-Xa song file. This way,
you'll save more than just the MIDI data: You'll also save the
song's performance that contains the sounds the song uses, its
realtime control setup, and more.
To save a song:
1. Hold down SHIFT and press the
WRITE•SAVE/LOAD button to
display the SAVE/LOAD MENU
screen.
2. Press F2 (Save Song)—the SONG FILE NAME screen
appears.
Here's where you name the song file.
The song file name is different from the song name you see when the
song's loaded in the Fantom-Xa. Here, you're naming the song file, not the
song itself. See Page 149 in the Fantom-Xa Owner's Manual to learn how to
name the song itself.
3. The first character position is underlined, so turn the VALUE
dial to select the first character of the desired name.
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