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Roland Fantom G6 Features Manual

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Playing Clips from the Fantom-G Pads
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  • Page 1 Workshop ®ÂØÒňΠ® Fantom-G Workstation Keyboard Playing Clips from the Fantom-G Pads © 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. FGWS13...
  • Page 2 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 Rhythm Pattern pad mode. RPS, or “Realtime Phrase Sequencing,” first appeared in Roland’s XP-50 back in 1996. At A lot of what we’re covering in this booklet is discussed from a the time, it was envisioned simply as a way to...
  • Page 4 Switching to RPS Pad Mode If you’re not familiar with pad modes, see the Workshop booklet Power User Control 2: The Pads. Select the Pad Assign Source parameter if it’s not selected, and then So that your phrases play correctly, select the studio set you used when set it to TEMP so that the pads use each studio set’s pad mode.
  • Page 5: Keyboard Mode

    Once you’ve set up your RPS set, press WRITE and re-save the current studio Using the default note numbers, the 61-note Fantom G6 has eight keys set so it contains—and remembers—your new RPS set. You can also store that play the same note numbers as the pads. You can change these the RPS set separately in the current project by clicking F7 (Save) if you like.
  • Page 6 RPS-Pad Parameters Trigger Quantize Trigger Quantize determines how a pad’s phrase begins playing when you Each of the 16 pads has its own row of parameters with which you select the strike the pad. When it’s set to: pad’s phrase and set its behavior. Here’s an explanation of these settings. •...
  • Page 7: Note Number

    There are a couple of ways the Tempo value gets set. It’s set when: A Fantom G6 provides a good reason to change Note Number settings: • you press the TEMPO button—...
  • Page 8 Another way to hook up hands-free tempo changes is sets. However, if you’re playing clip sets that require different to connect a foot switch or damper such as the Roland tempos, it can be time-consuming to have to manually dial in DP-10 or DP-2 (sold separately).
  • Page 9 Playing Your Clips in Performance To sequence clips into a Fantom-G song, you’ll use essentially the same realtime sequencing procedure we introduced on Page 14 of the Workshop The Fantom-G Possibilities, and dug into more deeply in the Sequencing and You can use clips in situations where they provide the backbone of the music Recording Workshop booklet.
  • Page 10 Clips—or phrases, really—can hold more than just notes, of course. They can also hold Control Change data you generate using the Fantom-G’s control knobs and sliders, D Beam, Pitch Bend/Modulation lever, foot controls, and so on. In fact, a phrase doesn’t need to contain notes at all—it can contain realtime controller data all by itself.
  • Page 11 Setting Up Your Realtime Control Clip RPS Set Click F7 (Sys Write). Press the PAD SETTING button, select your realtime control clip Create your realtime control clip RPS set—gathering all of your realtime RPS set. control clips into one easily accessible place—using the method we described starting on Page 4 of this booklet.

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