Loading Songs - Roland Fantom-X User Manual

The pads work especially well for triggering beat loops. Set the pads to use
a fixed velocity for the best results. See the Workshop series booklet The
Rhythms of the Fantom-X for details.
Once a beat loop is placed in a rhythm set or patch, play the
pads or keyboard to trigger the beat loop at the desired song
locations while recording your playing into a track or pattern.
Record your beat loop triggering into a pattern if the beat loop is to be
used repeatedly in a song. This way, you can simply record pattern calls at
the desired locations.
Once recorded, use the Quantize tool to position the loop
perfectly in time.

Loading Songs

To edit a song, or add more material to a song, the song has to
be loaded into the Fantom-X's temporary work RAM.
If you'd merely like to listen to a song in user or card memory, you don't
actually have to load the song—you can use the Fantom-X's Quick Play
feature, described on the next page.
You can load a song from:
• a Fantom-X song file—that contains a song's recorded
data, its performance and the patches and rhythm sets the
performance uses.
The patches and rhythm sets in a .svq file are loaded into the Fantom-X's
temporary performance memory in work RAM. You can steal a patch or
rhythm set from a song performance and save it permanently to user or
card memory. Select the part that plays the patch or rhythm set, and then
press WRITE to save the sound.
• an SMF file—that contains a song's recorded data.
Commercially-produced SMFs may contain setup data.
• an MRC file—that contains a song recorded in Roland's
legacy MRC file format.
You can load a song from the Song List screen, which you can
display from the Save/Load menu or the Song Edit screen.
Displaying the Song List from the Save/Load Menu
1. Press SAVE/LOAD—the Save/Load Menu appears.
2. Either:
• press F6 (Load Song), or
• use 3, 4, 5 and/or 6 to highlight Load Song, and
then press the ENTER button.
The Song List screen appears.
If you've saved your song as a Fantom-X song file along with the samples
it requires using the Save Song + Samples feature, select F5 (Load S+S)
or cursor to Load Song + Samples, and then press ENTER to load your song
and its samples.
Displaying the Song List from the Song Edit Screen
1. On the Song Edit screen, press F1 (Song List) to display the
song list.
41