Voice Reserve - Roland Fantom-G Workshop Manual

Group: Available Settings:
Mono/Poly/Legato With these Internal-part parameters, you
can set a part's sound to be monophonic or
polyphonic, and you can set it to move from
note to note in a legato manner.
MIDI Rx Filter For Internal, EXP, and External parts, this
group sets whether a part responds to various
MIDI control-change messages. For Internal
parts that use the same MIDI channel, you
can lock in the timing, or "phase," of note
timings. You can also select individual velocity
curves for Internal and External parts.

Voice Reserve

Each sound wave a patch, rhythm set, or sample set plays is a "voice. " The
Fantom-G can produce 128 Internal voices at a time, with additional voices
available from installed ARX boards.
Any Fantom-G patch can play up to eight voices at a time from as many as
four stereo tones. When you're playing back or working on a full arrangement
with lots of MIDI tracks playing lots of patches, you can find yourself using
a lot of polyphony. If you don't hear everything you expect to hear when
you play your song, check the Studio mode Voice Reserve screen to see how
much polyphony you're using.
The Voice Reserve screen is the second-to-last Part View screen—display it
using F2 (Group/Down).
If any of your arrangement's important sounds is losing notes due to
excessively high polyphony use, you can reserve a fixed number of notes for
its part by setting the VoiceRsv ("Voice Reserve") parameter.
You can also address polyphony issues in a more fluid way by editing
your patches' Patch Priority values, as explained on Page 89 of the
Fantom-G Owner's Manual. Once you've tweaked the parameter,
you'll need to save your edited patches and, if they're saved to new
locations, re-select them for your song's parts.
The End
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