How To Create A Song; Creating A Song; Editing A Song; Basic Operation In The Song Screen - Roland FANTOM Series Reference Manual

How to Create a Song

Creating a Song

In advance, select a scene, and create patterns and groups as
described in Recording a Pattern (p . 86) and Creating a Group
(p . 96) .
1.
Press the [GROUP] button.
The GROUP screen appears .
2.
Select [E6] MAKE SONG.
The MAKE SONG screen appears .
3.
In the GROUP LIST at the left side of the
screen, touch <ADD> for the group that you
want to play first.
The group you touch is added to the SONG area in the right side
of the screen, and the input location (red frame) advances by one
position .
Menu Explanation
[E1] knob Moves the cursor in the GROUP LIST .
[E2] PREVIEW Auditions the group selected by the cursor .
Switches the input method . If you input using
[E3] ADD/REPLACE REPLACE, the group at the input location is
replaced .
[E4] knob
Moves the input location (red frame) .
Deletes the group at the input location (red frame)
[E5] BACK DEL
and moves the input location back by one position .
[E6] SONG Accesses the SONG screen .
<Play icon> Auditions the group whose icon you touch .
4.
Repeat step 3 as necessary to create your
song.
MEMO
5 You can enter a maximum of 32 groups.
5 Each scene can have one song.
NOTE
After creating groups or a song, the data you created will be lost if you switch
to a different scene or turn off the power without saving the scene .
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Editing a Song

Even after creating a song, you can edit the song structure in
the SONG screen .

Basic Operation in the SONG Screen

1.
Press the [SONG] button.
The SONG screen appears .
2.
Select a function and edit the parameters.
Menu
[E1] MAKE SONG
[E2] EDIT
[E3] DELETE
[E4] SKIP
[E5] MEAS
[E6] EXPORT
Input location

Skipping a Specific Group

In the SONG screen, the groups arranged in the screen will play
consecutively, but you can make the playback skip a specific
group . Since you can do this even while the song is playing, it is
a convenient way to quickly and freely change the structure of
the song .
1.
Press the [SONG] button.
The SONG screen appears .
2.
Select [E4] SKIP.
One of the group boxes that contain data is shown with a red
frame .
3.
Use the cursor [H] [I] [K] [J] buttons to move
the red frame to the group box that you want
to skip.
You can't move the frame to a box that does not contain data .
4.
Press the [ENTER] button.
The group box selected by the red frame is grayed-out . The
grayed-out group box is skipped when the song plays .
Explanation
Accesses the MAKE SONG screen .
Accesses the SONG EDIT screen .
Deletes a group .
Specifies whether a specific group is skipped when
the song plays .
Shows the timeline as measures .
Accesses the SEQ EXPORT screen .

(SKIP)