Roland Fantom G6 Manual de usuario

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The Fantom-G Possibilities

®ÂØÒÅˆÎ®Workshop

Fantom-G Workstation Keyboard

About the Workshop Booklets

Roland’s Fantom G6, G7, and G8—the Fantom-G family—set a new standard

for excellence in workstation keyboards, with spectacular sounds and

incredible built-in effect-processing muscle. A beautiful full-color LCD

display and innovative performance features make getting around a pleasure

and make the G6, G7, and G8 a dream to play. For recording, the Fantom-G

contains a powerful 152 MIDI/audio track sequencer. Each Fantom-G can

also host two Roland ARX SuperNATURAL™ cards whose breakthrough

modeling technology provides sounds with amazing sonic detail, expressive

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.

This booklet requires Fantom-G Operating System v1.20 or higher. You can

download the latest Fantom-G O.S. for free from www.RolandUS.com.

About This Booklet

The best thing about the Fantom-G is the way in which it seamlessly brings

together all of the tools you need to create modern music.

Sequencer

Keyboard

Dynamic Pads

Arpeggiator

Realtime Controls

Sampler

Eects

Audio input

This booklet provides a hands-on introduction to the Fantom-G. We’ll take

you briefly through its different sections to give you an idea what’s in store

for you on the Fantom-G.

Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet

Throughout this booklet, you’ll come across information that deserves

special attention—that’s the reason it’s labeled with one of the following

symbols.

A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.

A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.

Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid

possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.

Meet Us At The Starting Line

Since the Workshop booklets attempt to accurately describe to you, and

show you, what you’re experiencing on your Fantom-G as you go through a

booklet, we need to start in the same place.

In this booklet, we’ll assume you’re working with a factory-fresh Fantom-G. If

you’ve already been writing patches, live sets, sample, songs, or anything

else, you should save your data—see the Owner’s Manual to learn how for

now—and then perform a factory reset. Here’s how:

Press the Fantom-G’s MENU button to display the MENU

screen.

Press the

2 4button twice to select the

Factory Reset box.

Press the F8 button underneath the right-

hand corner of the display, and read the

warning that appears.

If you’re ready to proceed, press the F7

button—a progress bar appears onscreen.

When the Fantom-G is reset, press F7 again to continue.

The 4button

Hold It

To add a sustain pedal to the Fantom-G, connect a damper pedal such as a

Roland DP-2 or DP-10 to the rear-panel HOLD jack.

Now Hear This

For this booklet, you can listen to your G through headphones connected

to the PHONES jack, or by connecting the jacks to an mixer, interface, or

amplifier attached to speakers.

Control Issues

While the second and third Fantom-G Workshop booklets, Power User Control

and Power User Control 2: The Pads go into detail regarding the operation of

the Fantom-G’s front-panel buttons, knobs, switches, pads, and such, we

need to tell you just a few things to get started. For now, we’ll discuss front-

panel operations without a mouse for simplicity’s sake, and because not

everyone has a mouse. (The Power User Control booklet discusses mouse use

on the Fantom-G.) We do recommend using a mouse, of course.

The Fantom-G Display and F Buttons

The Display

Have you noticed the Fantom-G’s display? (Just joking.) At the heart of

the Fantom-G’s operation is its display that provides helpful information,

whatever you’re doing. We’ll discuss what you see there as we go along.

Button Up

Beneath the display is a row of 10 buttons.

All the way to the left you’ll find the MENU button. (You’ve

already used it if you performed a factory reset on Page 2.)

Pressing this button displays a menu of important Fantom-G

operations.

At the right is the Display button that reveals a Shortcut Menu

window whose items take you immediately to some commonly

used screens.

In-between these two buttons are the eight F buttons that play a crucial role

in operating the Fantom-G. The F8 buttons are“soft buttons”whose behavior

depends on what you’re doing, or, more specifically, what’s currently on the

display above the buttons. Each button has a “soft” label shown onscreen.

In the instructions throughout the Fantom-G Workshop

booklets, when we want to you to press an F button, we’ll

name the button and show its soft label in parentheses.

For example, we’d refer to F5 in the illustration above as “F5

(LiveSet List).”

In screens that contain more items than can be displayed at once, F6

will have a pages icon as shown in the illustration above—you can press

F6 to view the screen’s second page or, to scroll down.

The Value Dial and Cursor Buttons

In the Workshop booklets, we refer to the

up, down, left, and right cursor buttons

as the 5, 6, 3, and 4buttons.

To navigate the Fantom-G’s display from the front-panel—which is to say,

not using a mouse—you work with the cursor buttons and the Value dial:

You select something on the display using the

1 5, 6, 3, and 4

buttons. This lets the Fantom-G know what it is you want to change.

You make the change you want using the Value dial.

Selecting

There are a few different kinds of things you can select with the cursor

buttons. The two most common ones are:

settings, or “parameters”

•

phrases—• chunks of MIDI or audio data in the Fantom-G sequencer.

When you select a parameter onscreen, it becomes highlighted.

A parameter before

it’s been selected

A parameter after it’s

been selected

Once a parameter’s been selected, you can turn the Value dial to change its

setting, or “value.”

As you’ll see in the next booklet, you can also easily select parameters

and set values using a mouse.

ENTER, EXIT, SHIFT, INC, and DEC

The five buttons below the Value dial are also important in the operation of

the Fantom-G. Press the

ENTER button—

• to display a window or menu of choices

regarding what you’ve selected onscreen, or to execute

operations. Pressing the ENTER button sometimes provides

a “yes” answer to questions the Fantom-G displays.

EXIT button—

• to close a menu or return to the previous

screen during a variety of Fantom-G operations. You can

also cancel some operations using the EXIT button. Pressing

the button sometimes provides a “no” answer to questions

displayed onscreen.

SHIFT button—

• to change the behavior of certain other

controls, as detailed in the Workshop booklets and Owner’s

Manual. It can also reveal hidden screens, as we’ll see.

INC (for “increment”) button—

• to raise the value of the

currently selected parameter, or to move up through a list

or menu displayed onscreen.

DEC (for “decrement”) button—

• to lower the value of the

currently selected parameter, or to move down through a

list or menu displayed onscreen.

Pressing the SHIFT button while turning the Value dial or using the INC

or DEC buttons causes values to change in larger increments.

About Patches, Rhythm Sets, and Sample Sets

There are three basic types of sounds on the Fantom-G:

a patch—

• plays a single sound at different pitches, depending on the

keys or pads you play.

a rhythm set—

• plays a different percussion sound from each key or pad.

a sample set—

• is a collection of 16 samples you want use together.

Exploring the Fantom-G Sounds

Live Mode and Live Sets

The Fantom-G is more than anything else about Live mode, where you can

select “live sets.” A live set is a combination of

eight patches, rhythm sets, or sample sets, along with their patch effects, or

•

“PFX”—from the Fantom-G’s internal memory.

up to two ARX patches—

• from installed optional ARX expansion boards,

purchased separately.

chorus and reverb effects—

• associated with the live set itself.

up to 16 external sounds—

• you play via MIDI from the Fantom-G.

You can combine a live set’s sounds in a variety of ways. We’ll show you what

we mean in the following introduction to Live mode. (We’ll discuss Live

mode in greater detail in the Live Mode in the Fantom-G Workshop booklet.)

In this booklet, we’ll be exploring live sets that use internal Fantom-G

sounds only, just to keep things simple. We’ll discuss your other options

in the Live Mode in the Fantom-G booklet.

The Party of the First Part

Each of a live set’s sounds is played by a “part” that has its own settings that

determine how the sound plays. Every live set has eight parts. You create

individual patches in Single mode, but you put them together in Live mode

by assigning each one to its own part.

Selecting Live Sets

We’ll be selecting live sets in the following sections. Here’s the basic

procedure:

Press the LIVE MODE button to enter Live mode.

The Live Play screen appears:

Live sets are stored in the Fantom-G in “banks.” The

PRST bank—

• contains live sets that are permanently stored in the

Fantom-G’s memory. (“PRST” is short for “Preset.)

• USER bank—contains live sets you’ve edited or created.

Use

2 3, 4, 5, and/or 6to highlight the Bank

parameter.

Turn the Value dial or press INC and/or DEC to

select the desired live set bank. For now, select the

PRST bank if it’s not already selected.

Highlight the Live Set Number parameter.

Turn the Value dial or press INC and/or DEC to select the desired live5

set.

In this screenshot we’ve selected the System G

live set, the first one we’ll listen to.

PRST 001:System G

Let’s begin with the first live set the Fantom-G displays when you power

up: PRST 001: System G. This live set does more than just show off the great

sound of the Fantom-G—it also shows you how you can split and layer

patches in a live set. (If System G isn’t already selected, use the previous steps

to select it now.)

Play some notes below Middle C with your left hand—you hear a throbbing,

complex groove that plays at the pitch of the note whose key you press. Now

play some notes above Middle C with your right hand to hear a classic brass-

synth sound with an unusually interesting trail-off. As you play the keyboard,

you can see the notes you play light up onscreen in pink.

Split Personalities

Each of the patches in System G is set to play only from a specific range of

keys. Parts 1-6’s patches (in the blue square below) play only below Middle

C as you can see onscreen when you play up and down the keyboard. The

patches played by Parts 7 and 8—in red in the following illustration—play

only from Middle C up.

Parts 1-6

Parts 7 and 8

This is called a “split” because the keyboard is split into two keyboard ranges

that play different sounds. You can split a keyboard in a live set into up to

eight ranges with internal sounds, and more with ARX and MIDI sounds.

You can see the name of the patch each part plays in the part list’s

Patch Number/Name column. You can also see that each of the parts’

sounds is a patch, as shown in the Type column.

Layer Cake

You also see that the lower range of the keyboard plays six parts at once,

and the upper range plays two. When sounds play together, they’re“layered.”

Layering is a great way to create complex, interesting, sounds. System G

demonstrates what we mean:

under your left hand—

• you’ve got an extremely complicated rhythmic

texture created by six patches layered on top of each other.

• under your right hand—you’ve got simple synth brass notes that slowly

morph into a pretty burbly sample-and-hold sound that results from

layering the 80s Brass 3 (the synth) and Cross Talk (the burble) patches.

You can see that all of these patches are turned

on by looking at their lit KBD (for “keyboard”)

switches.

PRST 003:Within You

Within You provides a group of instruments for playing Indian music. It

shows the creative ways in which you can split your keyboard.

First of all, we’ve got something new here: Part 8 is playing a rhythm set, as

shown in the Type column. This gives Within You tabla sounds that play from

Middle C to the G# above it. You’ve also got

a sitar gliss—

• in the octave just below Middle C.

sitar notes with a drone—

• below the sitar gliss.

clean sitar notes—

• above the tablas.

a synth pad—

• behind all of the sitar notes, courtesy of Parts 4 and 8.

PRST 024:Syn Bass Menu

Sounds in a live set don’t have to be split or layered—they can also be

assembled in a live set for quick access. This can particularly handy onstage

or in a fast-paced studio session. Syn Bass Menu is a good example of this, as

are all of the live sets with “Menu” in their names.

The key to this type of live set is the setting of the KBD switch we first noted

on Page 6. Notice how they’re all turned off in Syn Bass Menu.

Play the keyboard—you hear the sound of the first part’s patch, Big Mini 2.

If no KBD switches are turned on, when you haven’t manually selected any

other parts, the first part’s sound plays.

Otherwise in the Fantom-G, when there are no KBD switches turned on, the

part that’s currently selected plays. Press 6until you’ve selected the second

part and play the TickerBs patch.

Use the 6button to check out the other bass patches in this live set.

PRST 005:G-Grand

G-Grand is a great Fantom-G piano, divided up into eight optimally-tweaked

key ranges. The reason we’re here, though, is something else altogether.

Check out the Pad Mode parameter setting the arrow above’s pointing to:

It says “RHYTHM PTN,” for “rhythm pattern.” The Fantom-G’s DYNAMIC PADS

can do quite a few different things. They can be set so that they do different

things depending on the live set you’ve got selected; this is their default

behavior, and a very handy way to work onstage.

In G-Grand, the pads play rhythm patterns. Rhythm patterns can be great for

playing along with, onstage or when you’re composing or jamming. Press a

pad to begin playback of its rhythm pattern—the pad flashes as the pattern

plays. To change immediately to another rhythm pattern, press another pad.

To stop playing a rhythm, press the currently flashing pad.

In the Fantom-G, rhythm patterns are phrases belonging to the current

project that play the rhythm sounds of the current live set. The ones

you’re hearing now belong to the Fantom-G’s demo project. (We’ll

explain projects in the third Fantom-G Workshop booklet, Saving Your

Work on the Fantom-G.)

We’ll discuss rhythm patterns in detail in the Rhythm Patterns, RPS, Arpeggios,

and Chord Memory Workshop booklet.

PRST 010:RPS TEMP 98BPM

Check out the Pad Mode setting in this live set: RPS TEMP 98BPM shows off

the Fantom-G’s Realtime Phrase Synthesis, or “RPS,” capabilities. With RPS,

you can trigger sequenced phrases from the DYNAMIC PADS. This lets you

use passages onstage or in recording that would otherwise be too hard to

play. You can also use RPS to quickly construct entire songs by stringing

RPS phrases together. An RPS phrase can contain a complete arrangement’s

worth of sequenced instruments, or any set of sounds you want to use.

To play an RPS phrase, strike its lit pad—the RPS phrase uses the live set’s

sounds. RPS TEMP 98BPM is set up so that striking a second RPS pad stops

playback of any currently playing phrase and starts playback of the new one.

In the Fantom-G, RPS phrases and rhythm patterns are similar, though more

playback options for RPS phrases are provided since they tend to be more

complex. To stop playback of an RPS phrase, strike its flashing pad.

We’ll discuss RPS phrases in detail in the Rhythm Patterns, RPS, Arpeggios, and

Chord Memory Workshop booklet.

PRST 021:Bell Mystic

Bell Mystic is a textured, tinkling live set that uses the Fantom-G’s arpeggiator.

Hold down a chord, and note how the glockenspiel part plays a repeating

pattern using the notes you’re playing. You can watch the arpeggiator work.

First, let go of the chord. Then, hold down the SHIFT button and press the

ARPEGGIO button—the Arpeggio screen appears.

Play the chord again—or another chord if you like—and watch the onscreen

keyboard to see your notes being arpeggiated.

Although in Bell Mystic, the pads trigger only this single arpeggio style,

each pad can trigger its own style, providing you a range of choices.

This is just another of the pads’ interesting capabilities we’ll be

discussing in the Power User Control 2: The Pads booklet.

In this live set, the arpeggiator is adding texture. An arpeggio can also be

useful as the basis for a dance groove. We’ll get into arpeggios in the Rhythm

Patterns, RPS, Arpeggios, and Chord Memory Workshop booklet.

Go Exploring

Now’s a good time to check out the other amazing live sets in the Fantom-G.

So far, we’ve been selecting live sets using the Live Set Number parameter,

but there’s an easier way. When you’re on the Live Play screen, press F5

(LiveSet List) to view all of your available live sets.

For each preset live set, you’ll find a brief description of what it

sounds like or does.

The small QWERTY keyboard in the Live Set List window allows you to

find live sets fast by typing in their names when you’ve connected a

mouse. We’ll explain this in detail in the next booklet.

Check Out the Fantom-G Realtime Controllers

As you try out patches, don’t forget to play around with the Fantom-G’s

assortment of realtime controllers. They’re highly customizable, and you can

see in the Live Play screen what they’ll do in any given situation.

We’ll get into the realtime controllers in detail in the Manipulating Sounds in

Realtime booklet, but here’s what they are:

Modulation lever, and S1 and S2 switches—

•

The modulation lever at the left of the

keyboard allows you to add modulation,

which typically produces vibrato, by

pushing the lever forward, or to bend notes

by moving the lever right and left.

S1 and S2 switches—

• Press these buttons

above the modulation lever to toggle

changes to the live set’s sound on and off.

Control Sliders 1-8—

• By default, the sliders control the levels of the live

set parts, thought they can do all sorts of other things if you prefer.

Control Knobs 1-4—• The control knobs, circled in red above, do different

things depending on the live set you’re using.

We haven’t yet mentioned the D Beam because it’s off by default in

most live sets. It’s a powerful realtime controller, though, and can be

used for manipulating sounds, triggering pads, or as a separate mono

synth. We’ll discuss it in Manipulating Sounds in Realtime booklet.

Patch Remain

One of the Fantom-G’s best features is its Patch Remain feature, which is

available in both Live mode and Single mode, which we’ll discuss next. Patch

Remain allows you to switch from one live set to another—or one patch to

another in Single mode—without hearing any glitching. To understand how

Patch Remain works, it’s a good idea to understand what it’s doing.

In Live mode, a live set has eight internal patches, each of which has its own

effect. (With ARX cards installed, you’ve got even more.) As you switch from

one live set to another, the Fantom-G holds onto all of the currently playing

notes and effects as it loads the second live set’s sounds and effects in

preparation for the next notes you’ll play. That’s a lot of stuff to juggle.

Of course, no device has infinite power. Patch Remain switches seamlessly

from one live set (or patch) to another, but not to a third live set if the first

one’s notes and effects are still playing. That’s just too much stuff to retain.

Live Set 3

Live Set 2 =Patch

Remain

Live Set 1

Live Set 2

Live Set 1 =Patch

Remain

Therefore, to go from live set to live set to live set using Patch Remain,

remember to wait until the first live set’s notes stop playing—or take your

foot off of your hold pedal—before going to the third one.

Obviously, if you scroll through the live set list, Patch Remain won’t keep

up, and you’ll hear glitching. Therefore, if Patch Remain is important to

you, you’ll need a strategy—and to do a little setup work—to get directly

from one live set to the next one you want without passing through others

in-between. The Fantom-G offers multiple ways to do this, including:

Favorites—

• The Favorites feature allows you to gather together all

of your live sets, patches, and studio sets for quick selection. The

mode you’re currently in doesn’t matter with the Favorites feature,

which jumps effortlessly into whichever mode you need to go. In the

Fantom-G, you can even use the pads to select Favorites, an extremely

fast and easy way to work, especially onstage.

User Groups—

• User Groups are similar to Favorites except that they

operate in a single mode. In Live mode, you can set up User Groups of

the live sets you want to use. In Single mode, your User Groups contain

patches. You can also select User Group sounds from the pads.

Re-organizing your data—

• You can, of course, also move your preferred

live sets or patches around so that pairs you’ll want to switch between

are stored next to each other.

We’ll talk more about all of these things later.

Single Mode

Single mode is the simplest of the Fantom-G’s modes. It’s a place where you

play a single sound at a time from the keyboard—you can also play a variety

of things from the pads if you like. Here’s a quick introduction.

Press the Single button to enter Single

mode and display the Single Play

screen.

On the Single Play screen, you have lots of ways to find and select2

sounds. We’ll discuss the Single Play screen’s many possibilities in the

Single Mode in the Fantom-G booklet, but for now you can highlight

Bank—

• to select preset (PRST) or user (USER) patches.

Category—

• to select the instrument type you’re looking for.

Patch Number/Name—

• to select the specific patch you want.

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