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Roland Fantom-X User Manual

Roland Fantom-X User Manual

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Workshop
Performing with the Fantom-X
No. 8 in the Fantom-X Workshop Series
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  • Page 1 ®ÂØÒňΠ™ Workshop Performing with the Fantom-X No. 8 in the Fantom-X Workshop Series...
  • Page 2 © 2004 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 3: About This Booklet

    About the Fantom-X Workshop Series The Fantom-X Workshop Series is a collection of booklets The Fantom-X is a potent performance machine, chock full of describing how to get the most out of some of the exciting features that help make your onstage experiences fun, and features of the Roland Fantom-X family of products.
  • Page 4 About Performance Mode • recall a multitude of Fantom-X features at the touch of a button. The Fantom-X’s Performance mode allows its sound generator As you can see, Performance mode is especially suited to— to play multiple instruments—up to a total of 16—all at one well, duh—performing music.

  • Page 5: Selecting Performances

    “favorites. ” There are eight Favorite banks, and eight performances can be stored in each bank. The Fantom-X also has a feature called “Live Settings” that provides way to quickly access both performances and patches during a live performance.
  • Page 6 PRST:34 Piano & Vox A really nice two-patch layer. From the factory, the Fantom-X comes with favorite performances already PRST:36 PhaserRhodes1 A fat electric piano, using all three MFX stored in Favorites Bank 1. You can overwrite a stored favorite by simply processors.
  • Page 7 MIDI devices. You’re not changing anything in a stored performance when you initialize it. You’re creating a new performance in the Fantom-X’s work RAM. Nothing You can freely edit any of the Fantom-X’s preset performances or gets saved until you store the performance to a user memory location.
  • Page 8 Sequencer status The song and sequencer information on the Performance Layer screen is very handy when you’re playing along with the Fantom-X sequencer during a live show. For more information on using the sequencer, see the Workshop series’ booklet Transpose amount...
  • Page 9 16 parts in the current performance. You can see the parts that keyboard or within a specified range of keys. The key range can sound when you play the Fantom-X keyboard, and the key indicator shows the key range set for a part by displaying range in which they can be played.
  • Page 10 Patch List screen. The Fantom-X can play a hefty 128 voices at once, and this is usually more than enough. However, when you’re layering patches, it’s possible you’ll notice some notes not sounding when you’re playing lots of chords.
  • Page 11 When you use realtime control, it doesn’t just affect the sounds inside the select a part whose key range you’d like to set. Fantom-X—a string of data can also be sent to the MIDI OUT jack, from 3. Press F3 (Key Range). The Key Range window pops open.

  • Page 12: Adding Effects

    In Performance mode, all of the Fantom-X’s killer effects are at your disposal, ready to enhance any performance in a variety of ways. To learn about the Fantom-X effects and how to set them up in a performance, see the Workshop series booklet The Fantom-X Effects.
  • Page 13 To learn about working with rhythm groups, rhythm patterns and the drum pads, see the Workshop series booklet The Rhythms of the Fantom-X. Using the Arpeggiator in a Performance 3. Turn the VALUE dial to select the desired arp part.
  • Page 14 3. Turn the VALUE dial to select the desired tempo. To get the most out of using the Fantom-X with other MIDI 4. Press EXIT to return to the Performance Layer screen. devices, you’ll need a basic understanding of the fundamentals of MIDI.
  • Page 15 VALUE dial. devices and enable parts’ reception of MIDI data from within the Fantom-X or from an external device. See Page There are far too many part parameters to display at once, so 112 in the Owner’s Manual.
  • Page 16 Part Keyboard Range Upper under “Range” To learn about the Output Effect screen’s parameters, see the Workshop Part Velocity Sensitivity Offset Velo series booklet The Fantom-X Effects. Part Vibrato Rate under “Vibrato” Part Vibrato Depth under “Vibrato” Part Vibrato Delay under “Vibrato”...
  • Page 17 To avoid losing your work, store your performance in the sound to play using a tuning of your own choice or design Fantom-X’s user or card memory before selecting another by programming the tuning of each note in an octave.
  • Page 18 (Write). The Performance Write window pops up: keyboard to play one-finger chords in Part 1 with your left 1. Use F3 (↓) and/or F2 (↑) to select the Fantom-X’s internal hand while soloing on another part’s lead patch with your user memory as the location in which the rhythm set is to right hand.
  • Page 19 RPS phrases aren’t samples—they’re made up entirely of MIDI data, which The speed of a chord roll is determined by the force with which you strike you can record using the Fantom-X sequencer. To play a sample using RPS, the key.
  • Page 20 VALUE dial to select the desired value. new song—or open an existing one—and record the patterns you wish to use. This is done using the Fantom-X sequencer. When you’re done setting the RPS parameters, you can return To learn about recording patterns and about songs, see the to the previous screen by pressing F8 (Exit).
  • Page 21 Programming a Keyboard Key to Trigger a Pattern The LOW, MED and HIGH Velocity Sens settings work in conjunction with the recorded velocity values of a pattern’s notes. Also, the pattern’s overall To assign a pattern to a keyboard key: volume is controlled by its part’s level settings.
  • Page 22 F8 (Save). • ONCE—so the pattern plays once each time the pad or key 5. The Fantom-X asks if you’re sure. Press F8 (Exec) to finish is struck. saving the file, or F7 (Cancel) to abort the save procedure.

  • Page 23: Live Settings

    Live Settings Selecting Live Settings On the Live Setting Play screen: The Fantom-X’s Live Setting feature allows you to quickly select your most frequently used sounds using the F buttons. 1. Press 6 and/or 5 to display the desired live setting Live settings are much like favorites in Patch or Performance bank.
  • Page 24 5. Press F8 (Regist) to store a live setting at the selected location. The Fantom-X ships with live settings already stored in the first seven banks. You can overwrite a stored live setting by selecting its location and pressing F8 (Regist).
  • Page 25 The Fantom-X’s user or card memory appears on the computer in a new window or on the desktop as a Connect the Fantom-X to a USB-equipped computer using any of the removable storage device. User memory appears as “FANX following operating systems: Windows XP/2000/Me or higher, Mac OS 9.04 USER.
  • Page 26 5. Import the Plain Text File into a Live Setting Bank Now that the text file is inside the Fantom-X, you can import it into the desired live setting bank. 1. From the Live Setting Edit screen, press 6 and/or 5 to the choose the bank in which you’d like to display the text...