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When you select the Arpeggio pad mode, the ARPEGGIO button
automatically lights and the arpeggiator is automatically turned on.
In the Arpeggio Pad mode, you'll find these two parameters on the Pad
Settings screen:
•
Set Number/Name—
You can select a set of 16 arpeggio styles stored in
the current project.
•
Pad 1-16 Arpeggio Number—
for each pad using these parameters.
When you construct a set of arpeggio styles you'd like to keep, click
F7 (Write) to store it in the current project.
Pad Mode 5—RPS
The Fantom-G's RPS (Realtime Phrase Synthesis) lets you
trigger a sequencer phrase from a pad or the keys. Since each
phrase in the Fantom-G can contain multiple MIDI channels
of data—with each playing a different part sound—a
phrase can hold an arrangement of any complexity.
Using the pads for RPS playback, you can:
•
trigger pre-sequenced hard-to-play passages—
•
lay out and sequence a song structure—
the song's sections to a pad, and then sequencing your triggering of the
sections in the desired order.
You can dial in the arpeggio style you want
onstage or in the studio.
by assigning a phrase for each of
As an RPS phrase plays, its pad flashes.
RPS phrases are really just standard phrases that contain musical
passages. If there aren't any phrases in the current project, there's
nothing there to use as an RPS phrase.
You can find more details on RPS pad mode in the Playing Clips from
the Fantom-G Pads Workshop booklet.
Here are the available pad settings for the RPS pad mode:
Global RPS Mode Settings
With this parameter:
You can:
RPS Set Number/Name
select an RPS set to play on the pads
Keyboard Mode
set what the 16 keys from E1 to G2 play.
You can choose:
•
•
•
Trigger Quantize
set the way in which your phrases start.
You can choose:
•
•
•
NORMAL—
so the keys play the
keyboard part's sound.
RPS—
so the keys play the current
project's RPS phrases.
RHYTHM-PTN—
so the keys play the
current project's rhythm patterns.
REAL—
so that the phrase begins
playing as soon as you hit its pad.
BEAT—
so that the phrase starts
playing at the next beat after you
press its pad.
MEASURE—
so that the phrase starts
playing at the next measure after you
press its pad.
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