Roland Fantom G6 Features Manual
Workstation keyboard perfecting songs, midi tracks, and audio tracks
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- Page 1 ®ÂØÒňΠ® Fantom-G Workstation Keyboard Perfecting Songs, MIDI Tracks, and Audio Tracks © 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. FGWS12...
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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 Editing Songs and Song Tracks When: • a MIDI-track phrase is selected— it changes from its regular blue to yellow-orange. The Sequencing and Recording Workshop booklet describes how the Fantom-G sequencer/recorder works, explaining tracks, playback events, phrases, samples, and more. If you haven’t read that booklet An unselected phrase An selected phrase yet, we recommend you do so before proceeding with this one.
- Page 4 To move the object from track to track, hold down SHIFT and use the 6 and 5 buttons or your mouse. To move the object back or forward in time, hold down SHIFT and move the object using: • DEC and INC— to move it by ticks, the finest increment.
- Page 5 Copying Objects on the Song Edit Screen The Zoom/Track Order tool performs double duty, allowing you to both zoom in or out on a song, and change the number—and thus the onscreen You can quickly make a single copy of an object on the Song Edit screen. The placement—of the currently selected track.
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Page 6: Clearing A Song
Choose Track Name from the Clearing a Song Song Utility menu—the Fantom-G To wipe all of the data from a song, select Song Clear from the Song Utility presents a naming window. menu—when the Fantom-G asks if you’re sure, click F7 (OK), or if you change Name the track as desired by: your mind, F8 (Cancel). - Page 7 To use Track Edit Insert: Removing Measures from a Song or Track On the Song Play or Song Edit screen, select Track Edit Insert from the Track Edit Delete allows you to remove measures from a track. The operation’s Song Utility menu to open the Track Edit Insert window. effect on the track’s objects depends on what’s being removed.
- Page 8 Set the first half—highlighted in the previous illustration—of the If you copy measures in track to a destination location that already Source Track parameter to the type of track from which you want to contains objects, anything currently in that location is replaced by the delete a section.
- Page 9 • Set Copy Times to the number of copies you want pasted end-to-end beat track—choose Beat Track from the Song Play or Edit screen’s Song at the destination location. Utility menu to display the beat track’s Microscope window. Click F8 (Execute) to perform the operation, or F7 (Cancel) if you decide not to.
- Page 10 To Edit an Existing Event’s Tempo or Time Signature To Remove an Event On the tempo or beat Microscope screen, select the: On the tempo or beat Microscope screen, select the event you want to delete. • tempo event— and press 4 once. The tempo becomes highlighted.
- Page 11 Editing Phrases The Phrase Utility Menu Click F3 (Utility Menu) to show the Phrase Utility Menu, which contains a Working with Phrases from the Outside handful of useful phrase utilities: Menu item: This: How to Use It: The Phrase List Screen Save All saves all of the phrases Select Save All from the...
- Page 12 The main area of the Phrase Edit screen shows you an overview of the Auditioning the Currently Selected Phrase currently selected phrase’s note data. In the upper-right is a set of clickable To listen to the currently selected phrase, click F7 (Preview). transport buttons you may find handy if you’re using a mouse.
- Page 13 • Measure— This parameter sets the location in the phrase at which the F6 (Phrase Beat) Phrase Modify tool begins working. To change the selected phrase’s time signature, click F6 (Phrase Beat) to • For— This sets the number of measures to be modified, starting at the open the Phrase Beat window, where you can select the desired numerator bar location selected with the Measure parameter.
- Page 14 Quantize In order for the TEMPLATE setting to work correctly, your notes have to be at least close to having been played with rhythmic accuracy. If you For an explanation of what quantizing is, see Pages 12 and 13 of the have trouble using templates, try using grid quantizing first to fix any Sequencing and Recording Workshop booklet.
- Page 15 The Delete parameters are: Erase • Measure— This parameter selects the first measure to be deleted. The Erase tool allows you to remove notes or controller data from a phrase. • For— This parameter determines the number of measures to be deleted, starting with the one selected as the Measure value.
- Page 16 • Copy Mode— This chooses the way in which pasted data interacts with Insert any data already at the Dst Measure location. You can set it to: You can add blank measures anywhere in a phrase to extend its length using •...
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Page 17: Change Channel
The Transpose parameters are: The Change Velocity parameters are: • • Part Group— (See the explanation of this parameter on Page 13.) Part Group— (See the explanation of this parameter on Page 13.) • • Ch— (See the explanation of this parameter on Page 13.) Ch—... -
Page 18: Shift Clock
• The Change Channel parameters are: For— (See the explanation of this parameter on Page 13.) • • Measure— (See the explanation of this parameter on Page 13.) Bias— If you’d like to change all of the selected notes’ lengths by the same fixed amount, select that amount with this parameter. - Page 19 • • Bias— Set the number of ticks by which you want the selected data to Data Thin Time— This parameter seeks out subtle data changes that be moved. Move data forward by up to 4800 ticks using positive values, occur so quickly they may not actually be noticeable.
- Page 20 At the right of the screen is the event list, where most Microscope work gets Microscope Editing done. Each line in the list represents a single event in the phrase. Each can The Fantom-G allows you to edit any note or controller event in a phrase be a note event or a controller event.
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Page 21: Editing An Event
A controller event looks like this: Edit the selected parameter’s value as desired. To edit another parameter, repeat Steps 2 and 3. Location Part column When you select another event, the last event’s changes are locked in. When you leave the Microscope screen, all of your edits are retained. Creating a New Event On Microscope screen, use the and/or... - Page 22 Select the phrase you want to work with. You can select an existing Moving an Event or new, empty INIT PHRASE. To move an event to different time location in a phrase: While holding down SHIFT, press REC to display the Step Rec Standby Select the event in the event list on the Microscope screen.
- Page 23 In step sequencing, you move forward in time only when you enter a note 1/32.(ß.),1/16(¶), 1/8T(• ), 1/16.(¶.), 1/8(•), 1/4T(§ ), 1/8.(•.), 1/4(§), or chord on the keyboard. While being on the Step Recording screen means 1/2T(£ ), 1/4.(§.), 1/2(£), 1/1(˚), or 2/1(˝). you’re now step recording, nothing actually happens until you enter a note.
- Page 24 About Editing Audio Track Samples Of course, audio tracks play samples. While we’ve already discussed editing audio tracks, the editing of samples is far too large a topic to cover in this book. To learn about editing audio samples, see Page 257 in the Fantom-G Owner’s Manual.