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Fantom-G. As you’ll see, there are often several ways to do the same incredible built-in effect-processing muscle. A beautiful full-color LCD thing. Roland’s designed the Fantom-G this way to make it fit naturally into display and innovative performance features make getting around a pleasure anyone’s workflow.
• Connecting Your Mouse scroll bar handles— to navigate up and down through lists. • zoom bars— to change the appearance of certain displays. Connect your mouse’s USB cable to the USB • icons— that do various things. MOUSE jack on the Fantom-G’s rear panel— that’s all the setup you need to do.
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In general, the right-click gets you a list of related options for the item you’ve When a QWERTY feature is available for a task you’re performing, you’ll see clicked on. The best workflow for one Fantom-G operation may not be the the Fantom-G’s QWERTY icon onscreen.
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You can also enter spaces using the spacebar, or go back by clicking the Back Space key. Click Shift to enter capital letters or alternate characters for the number keys, or click Clear all to start over. You can close the QWERTY keyboard at any time by clicking the “X” in its upper right-hand corner.
• SCROLL FINE— so Knob 4 scrolls through the patch list in small The Shortcut Menu steps. • SCROLL COARSE— so Knob 4 scrolls through the patch list in At any time, you can press the DISPLAY button located at the larger steps.
The Difference Between Favorites and User Groups The Favorite Play and Edit screens look a lot alike. The main difference is the F buttons. On the Favorite Play screen, the F buttons recall your Favorites. On While Favorites and user groups are similar in that they both allow you to the Favorite Edit screen, they’re devoted to setup operations.
Setting Up Favorites Registering a Favorite Here’s how to register a patch, rhythm set, sample set, live set, or studio set as a Favorite. The process for registering a song as a Favorite’s a bit different. We’ll explain it in the “Registering a Song Favorite” section later. •...
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At the bottom of the screen, you can see the names of the first eight Registering a Song Favorite Favorites registered in the current bank. Each of these eight Favorites Press FAVORITE twice to display the Favorite Edit screen. is assigned to one of the Fantom-G’s eight F buttons. To select the Favorite bank in which you want to register your song, To recall: press F1 (Bank/Up) or F2 (Bank/Down), or click the desired bank’s...
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Here’s how to import text into the Favorite screens: Once the Fantom-G and your computer are communicating, it’s Turn off the Fantom-G. critical that you don’t turn off either device—or exit the USB Storage Start your computer and create or locate the text file you want to screen on the Fantom-G—until you’ve un-mounted the Fantom-G from import into the Fantom-G.
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Select the file and press or click F8 (Select)—the Fantom-G previews the text in the file for you to make sure it’s the text you want. Press or click F8 (Execute) to import the file. Once the text is imported, it appears in the text area of the two Favorite screens.