Roland Fantom G6 Features Manual page 3

Editing Songs and Song Tracks
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
yet, we recommend you do so before proceeding with this one.
About the Song Edit Screen
Song editing takes place on the Song Edit screen. There are a few things
you can do on the Song Play screen—as described in the Sequencing and
Recording Fantom-G Workshop booklet—but by and large, the Song Edit
screen's the place to go when it's time to dig into editing a song.
To display the Song Edit screen:
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Press the LIST/EDIT SONG button once or twice—
the Song Edit screen, or
•
On the Song Play screen—
Selecting Tracks on the Song Edit Screen
Before you can do anything to one of the phrases or samples on the Song
Edit screen, you've got to select it.
until you see
click F8 (Song Edit).
When:
•
a MIDI-track phrase is selected—
yellow-orange.
An unselected phrase
•
an audio-track sample is selected—it changes from its usual red-orange
to magenta.
An unselected sample
You can select a phrase or sample using a mouse or the
Fantom-G's buttons:
•
When you're using a mouse—click the phrase or sample you
want to edit.
•
When you're using the front-panel controls—
to move the yellow-green selection box to the track with
which you want to work, and then use 3 and 4 to jump
from phrase to phrase or sample to sample.
To make things easier to read in the next three sections, when we're
discussing something that applies to both a phrase and a sample, we'll
refer simply to them collectively as an "object."
Moving Objects on the Song Edit Screen
Here's how you can move an object around in a song:
Select the object you want to move.
1
Hold down the SHIFT button—arrows appear around the object to
2
show it's ready to be moved.
it changes from its regular blue to
An selected phrase
An selected sample
use 6 and 5
3