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Page 2 - About the Fantom-Xa Workshop Series; Fantom-Xa Owner’s Manual; About This Booklet; Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet; Expanding Sample Memory

2 About the Fantom-Xa Workshop Series Roland’s Fantom-Xa workstation keyboard provides lots of creative power at an affordable price. It shares many of the features of its more expensive siblings—the Fantom X6, X7, and X8—including killer sounds, 128-note polyphony, a full-featured 16-track sequence...

Page 3 - Importable Loops; Owner’s Manual

3 In case you’re curious, “RAM” stands for “Random Access Memory,” and “SDRAM” stands for “Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory.” The Fantom-Xa performs CD-quality sampling—using a 44.1 kHz sample rate and a 16-bit word length. To give you an idea of how quickly sample RAM gets used up, this mea...

Page 5 - Converting a Loop Into a Fantom-Xa Sample

5 Copying the Loop to User or Card Memory 1. On the Fantom-Xa, press LAYER/SPLIT, and then MENU.2. Turn VALUE to select USB Storage. 3. Press ENTER—the USB Select screen appears. 4. On this screen, you allow your computer access to the Fantom-Xa’s user memory or card memory. To choose:• user memory ...

Page 6 - Preparing an Imported Loop

6 3. Highlight “Import Audio” in the menu, and then press ENTER to display the IMPORT AUDIO screen. If your computer runs Mac OS X, you may see extra files whose names start with a period. These files are used by Mac OS X and aren’t meant for loading into the Fantom-Xa—don’t worry about them. 4. Pre...

Page 8 - Saving Your Loop; You can re-name the sample if you like. See Page 28 in the; Assigning the Loop to a Pad

8 4. Set Type to choose the desired time-stretching method, from Type01-Type10. The best setting depends on the loop. Just as on the SAMPLE EDIT screen, lower values are best for drum and percussion loops, while higher values are best for loops that contain pitched instruments. 5. Quality Adjust set...

Page 9 - Playing a Loop from Its Pad; Strike and hold down the desired pad to play its loop.; Step-Recording a Loop; Press the Record button twice to display the Step Rec

9 If you change your mind later about using Tempo Sync, you can switch Tempo Sync on or off on by editing the rhythm set that plays the loop. See the Fantom-Xa Owner’s Manual to learn about editing rhythm sets. 5. Press F6 (EXEC)—when the Fantom-Xa asks if you’re sure you want to proceed, press F6 (...

Page 10 - If your loop length is:

10 2. Set Rec Track to Track 10. Since it’s common to use a loop as the basis for a song, we’re using Track 10—it’s typically the rhythm track. You can use any track you like. 3. If this is the first thing you’ll be recording on the selected track, you can leave Rec Mode set to MIX. If you want your...

Page 11 - The End

11 The End We hope you’ve enjoyed this little Fantom-Xa looping seminar. Keep an eye out for other Fantom-Xa Workshop booklets, all available for downloading at www.RolandUS.com . For the latest Fantom-Xa updates and support tools, visit the Roland U.S. Web site at www.RolandUS.com. If you need pers...