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Page 2 - About the Workshop Booklets; About This Booklet; Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet; Meet Us At The Starting Line; Owner’s Manual

2 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 a...

Page 3 - While the second and third Fantom-G Workshop booklets,; The Fantom-G Display and F Buttons; The Display; Beneath the display is a row of 10 buttons.

3 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 amplifi...

Page 4 - The Value Dial and Cursor Buttons; Selecting; About Patches, Rhythm Sets, and Sample Sets

4 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 4 buttons. 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...

Page 5 - The Party of the First Part; In this screenshot we’ve selected the System G

5 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 memor...

Page 6 - under your left hand—

6 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, us...

Page 7 - PRST 024:Syn Bass Menu

7 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...

Page 8 - We’ll discuss rhythm patterns in detail in the

8 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....

Page 9 - Go Exploring; Check Out the Fantom-G Realtime Controllers; We’ll get into the realtime controllers in detail in the

9 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 arpeg...

Page 10 - Patch Remain; Live Set 3; Single Mode

10 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 und...

Page 11 - The Patch List Screen; Single Mode in the; Playing Drum Sounds from the Pads; Keyboard part—

11 You can play patches or rhythm sets from the Fantom-G keyboard in Single mode, but for now we’re just discussing how to play patches. We’ll talk more about your options in the Single Mode in the Fantom-G Workshop booklet. The Patch List Screen Probably the best way to find patches on the Fantom-G...

Page 12 - The Fantom-G Recording Studio; Saving Your Work on

12 Since right now we want to select the second mode, RHYTHM, press 2 the 2 pad. When you’re returned to the Single Play screen, you can see the Pad Mode parameter’s now set to RHYTHM.To select the desired rhythm set, start by highlighting the Single Play 3 screen’s Dynamic Pad Bank parameter, which...

Page 13 - About Studio Mode and Studio Sets; A Studio Part Party; 6 Internal sound parts—

13 Highlight the first song, “Be In My World,” and press F8 (Load), and 3 then F7 (OK) to confirm your intentions—the song loads. 4 After the song’s loaded, press PLAY to hear the song as you watch its MIDI and audio tracks go by onscreen. You can adjust the overall level using the Fantom-G’s VOLUME...

Page 14 - Recording Your Own Song; Starting a New Song; Putting Together a Studio Set; Starting a New Studio Set

14 To navigate between the different types of parts on the Studio Play screen, hold down SHIFT and use the 3 and 4 cursor buttons. A studio set also offers quite a lot of effect-processing power: PFX— • Each of the 16 Internal and EXP parts has its own PFX. MFX (for “multi-effects”)— • Each studio s...

Page 15 - Assigning a Sound to a Part; Sequencing a MIDI Track; selecting the sound you want to sequence—

15 If it isn’t already highlighted—as shown above—highlight “Studio 3 Set Name,” and then press the ENTER button. In the STUDIO SET NAME window, you can assign the studio set a new name. (As you’ll learn later, everything you save or write in the Fantom-G gets its name in a window like this.)As the ...

Page 18 - Recording an Audio Track; Phrases, Meet Samples; But First: Plug Something In; a low impedance mic—

18 And finally, to add a beat to the song, go back to the Studio Play 14 screen, select Part 10, press the SONG button, and use 6 to select Track 10—you’ll find it below the 24 audio tracks on the Song Play screen.Repeat Steps 12 and 13 to sequence your drums. 15 The Fantom-G offers lots of editing ...

Page 19 - Here we’ve selected the Input

19 Selecting an Audio Track Press the SONG button if the Song Play screen isn’t already visible. 1 Press the 2 6 button to select an audio track—for now, select Song Track 9, which is also Audio Track 1. The Recording Process Press the I 1 3 button to return to the start of the song. Press the REC b...

Page 21 - The End; com

21 Select a patch you’d like to play. 1 2 Play anything you like on the keyboard, for about 10 seconds.Press the blue SKIP BACK SAMPLING button. The 3 Fantom-G goes back in time and creates a new sample from the last 10 seconds of your playing. Skip Back Sampling can be pre-set to grab anywhere from...