Sequencer; How The Sequencer Is Structured; Playing The Sequencer - Roland FANTOM-06 Owner's Manual

Sequencer

How the Sequencer Is Structured

Pattern
This unit's sequencer lets you record and play back using 16 tracks
which correspond to the zones.
Each track can have up to eight patterns.
For each track, you can switch the variation during playback.
Each pattern can be up to 32 measures long, and will play as a loop
of the length that is specified for each pattern.
PATTERN
TRACK1 TRACK2 TRACK3
A
B
C PLAY
D PLAY
E PLAY
F
G
H
ZONE1 ZONE2 ZONE3
Group
The combination of patterns created for each track is called a group.
You can create groups such as "Intro, " "Verse, " or "Fill" corresponding
to each section of your song.
GROUP
GROUP-01: Intro
TRACK1 TRACK2 TRACK3 TRACK4
A PLAY
B
PLAY
C
D PLAY
PLAY
E
F
G
H
Song
The groups you create can be arranged into an order that's called a
song. You can specify looping (LOOP) for individual groups and for
the entire song.
SONG
Step1 Step2
GROUP-01 GROUP-02
Intro Verse1
MEMO
Patterns, groups, and songs are all saved for each scene.
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TRACK4 TRACK5 TRACK6 TRACK16
PLAY
PLAY
PLAY
ZONE4 ZONE5 ZONE6 ZONE16
TRACK5 TRACK6 TRACK16
PLAY
PLAY
PLAY
Step3 Step4
GROUP-03 GROUP-05
GROUP-02
Verse2 Ending
Verse1

Playing the Sequencer

Playing Pattern
1 .
Select a scene.
2 .
Press the [PATTERN] button.
The PATTERN screen appears.
PLAY
A box in which a phrase is recorded (pattern box) is shown in
color.
If you long-touch a track's pattern box that's already
recorded, the pattern box is shown highlighted. This means
that it's in play-standby mode, and will play when you press
the [øPLAY] button. Only one pattern box for each track can
be in play-standby mode.
Press the [ ø PLAY] button.
3 .
Each track's pattern that's in play-standby mode will play.
¹ If you touch a pattern box that's not playing, the pattern you
touch is played.
¹ By directly touching a colored pattern box in the screen, you
can switch patterns for each track.
If you press the [ ð STOP] button, pattern playback stops
4 .
for all tracks.
¹ If you touch a pattern box that's playing, only the pattern that
you touched stops.
¹ If you change patterns, or stop/start a pattern while a
different pattern is playing back, the pattern automatically
Step5
stops/starts according to the Change Timing parameter
settings.
Empty
Exist Data
(Color Selectable)
Exist Data
Loop Sw Off
Exist Data
Play Standby
Exist Data
Playing