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Exploring the fantom-xa
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Exploring the Fantom-Xa
© 2005 Roland Corporation U.S.
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  • Page 1 ®ÂØÒňΠ™ Workshop Exploring the Fantom-Xa © 2005 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.

  • Page 2: About This Booklet

    Fantom-Xa Owner’s Manual. Getting Ready About This Booklet You’ll want to listen to the Fantom-Xa as you go through this One of the best things about the Fantom-Xa is the inspiring booklet, so plug a pair of headphones into the Fantom-Xa way in which all of its elements come together to make the PHONES jack—you’ll need headphones with a 1/4”...

  • Page 3: Patch Mode

    The VALUE dial If you’ve already stored some of your own patches in the Fantom-Xa, the patch name you see may be different that the one shown here. The Basic Fantom-Xa Tools Let’s take a moment to introduce the Fantom-Xa display and...
  • Page 4 The Keyboard and Pads If the keyboard part is already selected, nothing changes when you press In a sense, the Fantom-Xa is like two instruments in one: a F1 (KBD). synthesizer and a drum machine. Both of these instruments are always available.
  • Page 5 They’re stored in banks. You can also select patches according to the memory locations—called “banks”—in which they’re stored. See the Fantom-Xa Owner’s Manual to 4. To select a bank of rhythm sets, press F1 (BANK↓) or F2 learn more about banks.
  • Page 6 “ARP/RHY” repeatedly until its ASSIGNABLE LED lights. Turn the four REALTIME CONTROL knobs as you play—hear how each changes the sound in some way. The Fantom-Xa offers extensive realtime manipulation of its sounds. For more, see your Fantom-Xa Owner’s Manual. Meet the Beats The Fantom-Xa contains a full-featured drum 4.
  • Page 7 When you’re recording with a rhythm, though, it’s a better idea to use the WAIT NOTE setting, so the recorder waits You can set the Fantom-Xa so it doesn’t automatically load the demo at for the rhythm before recording starts. This ensures that startup.
  • Page 8 You won’t need to do this for our tutorial, but you can remove extra While the Fantom-Xa sequencer doesn’t actually record audio, its sampler measures at the front or end of a recording using the Delete editing tool, certainly does, as we’ll see later.

  • Page 9: Skip Back Sampling

    ASSIGN TO PAD screen on which you can select a pad for playing the newly captured sample. The arpeggiator uses the same tempo as the Fantom-Xa rhythm patterns and sequencer, so when you use the sequencer, rhythms and the arpeggiator together, they stay perfectly in time with each other.
  • Page 10 If you’ve turned on Tempo Sync, press 6 to display the Tempo parameter, at Startup parameter described on Page 193 in the Fantom-Xa and then set it to the sample’s tempo, or “BPM,” so the Fantom-Xa knows Owner’s Manual. how to keep it in sync with the sequencer and/or arpeggiator.