Roland Fantom G6 Features Manual page 6

Trigger Quantize
Trigger Quantize determines how a pad's phrase begins playing when you
strike the pad. When it's set to:
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REAL— the phrase begins playing as soon as you hit its pad.
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BEAT— the phrase starts playing at the next beat after you press its
pad.
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MEASURE— the phrase starts playing at the next measure after you
press its pad.
Whether or not each phrase you trigger replaces a phrase that's
already playing is something you can control using the pads' Mute
Group parameter, as we'll see.
Velocity Sens
Velocity Sens (for "Velocity Sensitivity") sets the degree to which the volume
of your clips is affected by the force with which you strike the pads. With
Velocity Sen turned on, how hard you whack a pad affects its clip's playback
velocity, making the clip's sounds behave as if you'd played the Fantom-G
keys harder or softer during sequencing. You can use this velocity-sensitivity
as a way to add a bit of additional feeling to your clips.
You can set Velocity Sens to:
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OFF— so that clips play with their original playback velocity regardless
of how hard you hit the pads. Set Velocity Sens to
each clip to sound the way it did when you sequenced it, and so that
transitions between clips are as even as possible.
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LOW— gets you a slight change in the clips' playback velocity as you
strike the pads with more or less force.
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MID— results in a medium amount of change in the clips' playback
velocity as you strike the pads with more or less force.
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HIGH— so that the pads become very sensitive to the force with which
you play them, producing the largest possible changes to the clips'
playback velocities as you strike their pads with more or less force.
RPS-Pad Parameters
OFF when you want
Each of the 16 pads has its own row of parameters with which you select the
pad's phrase and set its behavior. Here's an explanation of these settings.
Phrase Number
This parameter selects a pad's phrase. You can select any project phrase in
the usual ways or, to see a list of available phrases, highlight the parameter
and press ENTER to display the RPS Pad Phrase Number window.
Play Mode
Each pad's phrase can play in one of three ways, determined by the setting
of the Play Mode parameter. You can set it to:
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LOOP1— With the LOOP1 value, the pad's phrase plays only while you're
holding down the pad. It loops around and around until you let go. Use
LOOP1 for machine-gunning the start of a clip.
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LOOP2— With LOOP2, the pad acts as a toggle switch that turns the
phrase on or off with each strike. Once playing, the phrase loops around
and around until you stop it. This is the most typically used setting.
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ONCE— With the ONCE value, the phrase plays through to its end once
each time you strike its pad.
When you strike a pad, it uses the current Play Mode value—if you
change this setting as a phrase plays, the next pad strike uses the new
setting.
Mute Group
Mute groups is an interesting feature that can keep clips from stepping on
each other, and can also allow you to stack clips when you want to.
One phrase from a mute group can play at a time—if a clip from a mute
group is playing, and you strike the pad of another clip from the same mute
group, the first clip stops playing and the second one takes over. This is the
most common way to use clips, which is why all RPS phrases use Mute Group
1 by default.
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