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Page 2 - Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet

About the Fantom-X Workshop Booklets The Fantom-X Workshop booklets explain some of the exciting features of Roland’s Fantom-X family of products. Each Workshop booklet covers a single topic, and is intended as a companion to the Fantom-X manuals. This booklet requires Fantom-X O.S. Version 2 or hig...

Page 3 - Making Memories; things the Fantom-X needs to do its job; ROM; PCM waveforms; RAM

Making Memories This section explains the Fantom-X’s “memory,” a geeky term for “the place it puts things.” It’s important to understand how its memory operates as you develop your own way of working on the Fantom-X. The Fantom-X has quite a lot of stuff to hold onto, from its built-in waveforms on ...

Page 4 - that need to be saved have an asterisk.

While RAM makes a great workspace, it’s temporary—each time you turn off the Fantom-X, its RAM is cleared of its contents. As a result, you can’t actually store anything there. The Fantom-X provides a different sort of memory for permanent storage, as we’ll see. We’re sorry to repeat ourselves, but ...

Page 5 - Flash: User and Card Memory; user memory; PC Card

What Goes On In Sample RAM Sample RAM, logically enough, is where you work with samples in the Fantom-X. In fact, a sample has to be in sample RAM to be played or edited. All new samples go straight to sample RAM when they’re first captured. When you record an audio track, its samples also go into s...

Page 7 - Like a

Data Type User memory Card memory Rhythm patterns 256 0 Rhythm groups 32 0 Arpeggio patterns 128 0 Chord memory 64 0 * up to 2,000 samples; ** up to 7,000 samples Snug Fit User and card memory both contain pre-assigned memory locations for the storage of 256 patches, 32 rhythm sets, and 64 performan...

Page 8 - Why You’d Use Card Memory; Storage and Memory-Related Techniques; The Memory Information Display

Why You’d Use Card Memory Though a memory card requires an additional expenditure, it provides some definite benefits:• It’s removable —When you fill up a card, you can just pop another one in. This provides you as much Fantom-X storage space as you can afford. • It can hold the contents of expanded...

Page 9 - Using the Fantom-X File Utility; Getting to the File Utility Screen

Finding Out How Much Space You Need When You’re Storing Your Work The Fantom-X allows you to check out the size of your samples before saving them—you can store samples individually or store everything in sample RAM at once, as described in the Sampling on the Fantom-X Workshop booklet. To learn the...

Page 10 - The file’s current; Copying a File

0 Navigating the File Utility Screen When you arrive at the File Utility screen, you’re shown the two top-level folders in the memory area you’ve selected. By burrowing down into them, you can locate the files you want to examine, delete, move, or copy. The simplest way to move in and out of folders...

Page 11 - Backing Up Your Work on the Fantom-X; Creating a User Backup

The original file’s locationThe new copy’s location 2. Use F1 (User), F2 (Card), and the other File Utility navigation methods to display the desired location for the file copy. 3. Press F8 (Exec)—the Fantom-X asks if you’re sure you want to copy the file. 4. Press F8 (Exec) to copy the file, or F7 ...

Page 12 - Backing Up Your Work On a Computer; songs and samples; USB A plug; user memory

When you restore a user backup, the backup completely replaces the contents of user memory. If there’s anything there you wish to preserve, store it to a memory card before performing a User Restore operation. 4. Press F8 (Exec) to proceed, or F7 (Cancel). When your data has been returned to user me...

Page 13 - Recording Music on the Fantom-X

The Fantom-X displays “Connected” when communication is established. The Fantom-X’s user or card memory appears on the computer in a new window or on the desktop as a removable storage device. User memory appears as “FANX USER.” Card memory appears as “FANX CARD.” 5. Open FANX USER or FANX CARD on y...

Page 16 - The End; Owner’s Manual

The data is restored to the Fantom-X’s user memory. 5. Repeat the procedure for any remaining data you wish to restore to the Fantom-X’s user memory. 6. Quit the Librarian program when you’re done. The Librarian has other handy features we haven’t discussed here—check out its documentation for more ...

Roland FXWS07 - Manual

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