Roland Fantom G6 Features Manual
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- Page 1 Workshop ®ÂØÒňΠ® Fantom-G Workstation Keyboard Saving Your Work on the Fantom-G © 2008 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. FGWS04...
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Page 2: About This Booklet
Right click possibilities, and sound-design opportunities. Each Fantom-G Workshop Series booklet focuses on one Fantom-G topic, and is intended as a companion to the Fantom G6/G7/G8 Owner’s Manual. Scroll wheel This booklet requires Fantom-G Operating System v1.20 or higher. You can download the latest Fantom-G O.S. - Page 3 Got Something to Save? Right Now? How Memories are Measured Though this booklet starts by explaining how the Fantom-G handles and stores your work, it may be that you just need to know right now how to save something to keep from losing it. If that’s why you’re here, you can click the button at the right to jump to the section you’re looking for.
- Page 4 ROM’s where the Fantom-G keeps things such as its: What You Need to Know About Work RAM • PCM waveforms— The built-in sound recordings that the Fantom-G What Goes On in Work RAM patches and rhythm sets play when they aren’t playing samples you’ve captured or imported.
- Page 5 It can be hard to remember if your last-selected patch, live set, Keeping Your RAM Samples Safe or whatever has any changes you’ve made and would like to Since sample RAM is cleared each time you power-off, it’s absolutely preserve. Fortunately, the Fantom-G provides a visual cue that tells vital that you save all of the new samples and audio tracks you want to you at a glance if something you’re viewing hasn’t yet been saved preserve—as well as any sample you’ve been editing—to a permanent...
- Page 6 Internal or USB Flash? The project’s phrases The project’s go in here. songs go in here. Here’s why you might want to choose a particular form of flash memory as you work on your Fantom-G: • Internal memory— is handy since it’s built into the Fantom-G. It doesn’t cost any extra money, and it frees you from having to remember where you put your stuff.
- Page 7 Samples require The Power of the Project • sample RAM— for being captured, for playback, and for editing. Once You can’t work on the Fantom-G without being in a project. Even if you’ve your sample RAM is full, you can’t load or capture any more samples. never saved a project, when you powered up your Fantom-G, it automatically Sample RAM’s expandable, as we noted earlier.
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Page 8: Usb Memory
What Kind of Memory Stick Works The Fantom-G officially supports the use of the Roland M-UF1G USB memory stick, which can hold 1 GB of data. Any standard USB memory stick should work, though Roland obviously can’t... - Page 9 Before Installing a USB Stick in the Fantom-G Creating and Managing Projects Before you can use a USB stick in the Fantom-G, it must be formatted as a FAT The Project Menu Screen or FAT32 storage device. If you’re using: •...
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Page 10: Save Project
Performing a Load Project Operation Save Project To load a project: You may want to use Save Project frequently as you work, especially when you’re working with samples and when you’re sequencing or recording On the Project menu screen, click F1 (Load). audio tracks. - Page 11 • The copied project’s data is loaded into work RAM and sample RAM— Actually, since Save Project always grabs the current state of your that it becomes the new current project. sample, phrase, and song lists, you can clean out a project’s folders at •...
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Page 12: Create Project
To store the copied project in: Create Project • internal flash— click F1 (Internal). Create Project creates a new, empty project on an installed USB stick—if • USB flash— click F2 (USB Memory). no USB stick is installed, you won’t be able to perform the operation. Once the new project is created, it’s loaded into work and sample RAM, and the Click F8 (Save As) to open the Project Name window. -
Page 13: Backup Project
Backup Project Backup Project lets you quickly create a backup copy on a USB stick of the project that’s currently stored in internal flash. Creating a backup has no effect on the currently loaded project, so it’s an easy and safe thing to do at any time when you’re working on a project stored in internal flash. -
Page 14: Restore Project
How to Save Your Work Restore Project The Restore Project operation copies the data in a FantomG.Bak folder— Here’s a table of the things that are stored in a project, and the methods used created using the Backup Project operation—into the Fantom-G’s internal for storing them. - Page 15 The things you can store from the Write Menu screen vary slightly depending About Phrase and Sample Storage on the mode you’re in: There are a variety of ways to save phrases and samples to flash. You can: You can store: •...
- Page 16 Click F8 (Select) to display a window in which you can assign a new Using the Write Menu in Live or Studio Mode name to what it is you’re writing. (If you don’t want to rename what Press the WRITE button to display the Write Menu screen. you’re writing, skip now to Step 6.) If it’s not already highlighted, choose what it is that you want to write.
- Page 17 Create the desired name by: Click F2 (Save) to open the Phrase Name or Sample Name window in which you can name your phrase or sample. • using QWERTY naming— as described on Page 4 of the Power User Control Workshop booklet. Create the desired name by: •...
- Page 18 Writing From the Pad Setting Screen Edited rhythm patterns and RPS sets are always written as updates to their unedited versions. The following steps presume you’re already in the desired pad mode, and have made the settings you want on the Pad Setting screen. When the Fantom-G asks if you’re sure you want to proceed, click F7 On the Pad Setting screen, click F7 (Write).
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