Roland Fantom-X User manual

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The Sounds of the Fantom-X
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No. 2 in the Fantom-X Workshop Series
Workshop

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written permission of Roland Corporation U.S.
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About the Fantom Workshop Series
The Fantom Workshop Series is a collection of booklets
describing how to get the most out of some of the exciting
features of the Roland Fantom-X family of products. Much of
what’s discussed in the series also applies to the Fantom-S
keyboard and, to a lesser degree, the original Fantom.
Each booklet covers a single topic, with easy-to-follow
explanations, procedures and illustrations. Have fun learning
to master the Fantom-X in convenient bite-sized pieces.
Other Booklets in the Fantom Workshop Series
• The Fantom-X Experience—A quick tour of how the major
Fantom-X creative tools interact.
• The Rhythms of the Fantom-X—Exploring the pads, drum
sounds and rhythms of the Fantom-X.
• The Fantom-X Effects—This booklet helps you get the most
out the powerful effects processing in the Fantom-X.
• Recording Music on the Fantom-X—Learn how to record
your music in the Fantom-X’s full-featured sequencer.
• Sampling on the Fantom-X—Capture loops, vocals, noises or
any other sound with the Fantom-X’s advanced sampling
capabilities.
• Smart Storage in the Fantom-X—Learn all about the
Fantom-X’s storage options for samples and other data.
• Performing with the Fantom-X—Splits, layers, realtime
controllers and more make the Fantom-X hot onstage.
• Making a CD of Your Fantom-X Music—Learn how to turn
your Fantom-X music into a final audio CD.
• Advanced Fantom-X Recording Techniques—Learn how
to use time-based effects, record arpeggios, work with
mastering effects and record realtime patch tweaks.
About This Booklet
In this booklet, we’ll discuss the sounds, or “patches,” of the
Fantom-X. We’ll explain how a patch works, and how to quickly
get to the patches you want. We’ll also check out some of the
exciting built-in Fantom-X sounds, and visit Piano mode.
You’ll learn how to play patches expressively using realtime
controls. We’ll talk about editing patches so you can tweak
factory patches or create new sounds of your own. Finally, we’ll
explore the remote selection of Fantom-X patches via MIDI.
This booklet discusses things that happen in
Patch mode. To enter Patch mode, press the
PATCH/RHYTHM button.
In this booklet, we’re talking about standard Fantom-X patches, which
play the same sound up and down the keyboard at different pitches. The
Fantom-X also offers a special category of patch called “rhythm sets,” which
are usually played on the Fantom-X pads. Rhythm sets are discussed in The
Rhythms of the Fantom-X Workshop series booklet.
Using patches in Performance mode is discussed in the Workshop series’
Recording Music on the Fantom-X and Performing with the Fantom-X.
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 or yourself.

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Selecting Patches on the Fantom-X
In this section, we’ll talk about selecting a patch for the
Fantom-X keyboard. While there are a few ways to locate a
patch you want, the first step is to let the Fantom-X know that
it’s a keyboard patch you’re after.
Normally you select a patch for the keyboard and a rhythm set for the pads.
However, you can turn this around if you like. If you select a rhythm set for
the keyboard, each key plays a different drum/percussion sound. If you
select a patch for the pads, each pad plays the patch at a different pitch. For
now, though, we’ll presume you want to play a patch on the keyboard.
Press PATCH/RHYTHM to display the Patch Play screen, and
then press F7 (Kbd) to select the keyboard.
You can select patches on the Patch Play screen by highlighting
the patch number—as shown above—or bank name and
turning the VALUE dial. (We’ll explain banks in a few pages).
More typically, though, you’ll either be:
• looking for a patch you want to use, or
• selecting a known, favorite patch.
We’ll discuss these two different operations separately. In the
sections below, we’ll assume you’re on the Patch Play screen.
Looking for Patches
To search for a patch to use, press F1 (Patch List)—a screen like
the one shown here appears.
Search by Category
The Patch List screen is configured by default to present you
the available patches arranged by musical category, as you
can see along the left side of the screen. Most of the time, this
provides a sensible, easy way to locate a patch.
If you don’t see category names listed at the left, press F4 (Patch Categ).
Here’s how to select patches by category from the patch list:
• Press F2 (↓) or F1 (↑) to select the category you want.
• Once the desired category is selected, you can press 5 or
6 or turn the VALUE dial to select a patch.
• You can try out the patch by playing the keyboard, or by
pressing and holding F7 (Preview) to hear a brief passage
that demonstrates the selected patch.
• When you’ve got the patch you want, press F8 (Select) to
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Search by Location
The Patch List screen can also show you patches sorted by
their locations in the Fantom-X’s memory. To view patches in
this way, press F5 (Patch).
Fantom-X patches are actually stored in groups, or “banks.” You
can see the banks listed along the left side of the screen. The
banks are:
• USER—This bank contains 256 memory locations in which
you can store your own patches, or edits of the factory
patches.
• PR-A through PR-H—Preset Banks A-H hold the 1,024
Fantom-X factory patches.
• GM—These two banks appear as one continuous bank
that contains the 256 General MIDI and General MIDI 2
sounds.
• CARD—This bank holds any Fantom-X patches you’ve
saved to an installed PC memory card.
• XP-A through XP-D—When you’ve installed an SRX series
wave expansion board, its patches show up in the XP (for
“expansion”) memory area corresponding to the SRX slot
in which you’ve installed the board.
Viewing patches by memory location can be handy if finding
a patch—on a PC memory card or expansion board, for
example—by location is easier than finding it by category.
Use the same technique we described on Page 4 to select the
desired patch.
Selecting Favorite Patches
The Fantom-X has an even faster way of selecting patches you
use over and over. You can designate 64 patches as “favorites”
that you can select using the F buttons.
Adding a Patch to Your Favorites List
There are two ways to add—or “register”—a patch in your
Favorites list.
You Can Quickly Add a Patch from the Patch Play Screen
1. After selecting the patch on the Patch Play screen, press F2
(Favorite) to display the Favorite Patch window.
2. Turn VALUE, if necessary, to select the desired set of
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3. Hold down SHIFT and press the F1-F8 button you’d like to
use for selecting the patch in the future.
4. Press EXIT to return to the Patch Play screen.
You Can Add a Patch Directly from the Patch List
1. On the Patch List screen, press F3 (Favorite) to display the
Favorite Patch window.
2. Press F2 (↓) or F1 (↑) to select the desired Favorites bank.
3. Press 6 or 5 to select the desired location for the patch
within the selected Favorites bank.
4. Press F6 (Regist) to add the patch as a new favorite.
Removing a Patch from the Favorites List
In the Favorite Patch window, select the patch you want to
remove from the list, and press F5 (Remove).
Selecting a Patch from Your Favorites List
Press PATCH/RHYTHM if you’re not already on the Patch Play
screen, and then press F2 (Favorite)—your first bank of favorite
patches appears.
You can see that each of the favorite patches has an F button
name printed to its left—simply press the desired patch’s F
button to select the patch.
The Favorites list presents you eight favorites at a time—each
screenful of favorites is referred to as a “favorites bank.” To
select a different favorites bank, turn the VALUE dial.
Exploring the Fantom-X Patches
Now that we’ve discussed the ways in which you can easily get
to any of the many patches, we thought we’d point out a few
patches that show off the Fantom-X’s range.
We recommend finding these patches by category from the Patch List
screen for now. Make sure to press F4 (Patch Categ) to display patches by
musical category.
Patch Category Take a moment to...
UltimatGrand AC. Piano play up and down the keyboard,
varying your touch to hear the
patch’s expressiveness.
The VorteX Synth FX listen to the sheer complexity of
this patch.
Strings Flow Strings check out the rich realism of this
string patch by playing lines and
chords. (Keep your foot off the
Hold pedal for best results.)
FlamencoGt X AC. Guitar play some tender guitar licks. Slap
hard for a quick hammer-on.
HimalayaPipe Flute play this haunting, ethereal patch
slowly, letting the sound unfold.
Strobot Pulsating throb in time with this rave patch.

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Realtime Controllers
The Fantom-X boasts an assortment of realtime controllers:
• The Pitch Bend/Modulation lever—
Push the lever to the left of the
keyboard forward to turn up the
currently selected patch’s LFO.
• The keyboard itself—You can use
“aftertouch” to control sounds by
pressing down into the keyboard.
• The REALTIME CONTROL knobs (circled in red below)—By
turning the knobs, you can:
• adjust a patch’s filter and envelope settings
• adjust important aspects of the arpeggiator and
rhythm generator
• change the values of patch or effect parameters.
• The two ASSIGNABLE SW buttons (circled in yellow above)—
Press the buttons to turn settings on or off.
• The D Beam—The D Beam can do a few
things. Move your hand up or down above
the D Beam lenses to:
• trigger pads
• play notes using a mono synth sound
• change the values of patch or effect
parameters.
The realtime controllers allow you to manipulate the sound of
the currently selected patch or effect as you play, responding
in realtime to your actions. To try this out:
1. Select the Square Sphere patch in the Pulsating category.
2. Press the D Beam ASSIGNABLE button so it’s lit.
3. Press the REALTIME CONTROL button repeatedly—with
each press, the functions of the REALTIME CONTROL knobs
change, as shown on the display.
4. Play the patch and experiment with how the D Beam and
REALTIME CONTROL knobs change the sound as you play.
As you operate a realtime control, you’re changing the value
of one or more parameters in the patch or in the patch’s effect.
We’ll explain how to set up assignable realtime control later.
Piano Mode
The Fantom-X offers a special Piano mode that provides the
ultimate acoustic or electric piano-playing experience. When
you press PIANO MODE so it lights, the Fantom-X display
presents you unique options for the creation of the most
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Piano mode opens up by default with the Fantom-X’s
extraordinary 88-note multisampled piano. You can, if you
wish, select other acoustic piano patches, or select an electric
piano patch.
• If you’re on the acoustic piano screen—you can highlight the
current patch’s name and turn VALUE to select a different
acoustic piano.
• If you’re on the electric piano screen—you can highlight the
current patch’s name and turn VALUE to select a different
electric piano.
GM (General MIDI) acoustic and electric piano patches cannot be selected
in Piano mode.
To switch between piano types, press F1 (List), and then:
• Press F1 (AC. Piano) or F2 (El. Piano).
• Turn the VALUE dial to select the desired patch.
• Press F8 (Select) to confirm your choice.
In Piano mode, the acoustic and electric piano screens offer
their own unique options.
Acoustic Pianos in Piano Mode
With an acoustic piano in Piano mode, you can set:
• Key Touch—This parameter adjusts the Fantom-X’s response
to the force with which you hit the keys in Piano mode.
Select the value that best reflects your playing style.
• Open/Close—As you raise or lower a real-world grand
piano’s lid, the piano’s sound changes. Use the Open Close
parameter to set the height of the virtual Fantom-X piano’s
lid.
• Resonance—When you play an acoustic piano in Piano
mode, the Fantom-X multi-effects are automatically set
to use Effect 78, Sympathetic Resonance. This effect
simulates the way in which a real piano’s strings cause
its neighboring strings to vibrate in sympathy, creating a
piano’s characteristic resonance. You can set the desired
amount of resonance.
To adjust a parameter, press the corresponding F button, and
the parameter’s window pops open onscreen.
Electric Pianos in Piano Mode
When you’re playing an electric piano, you can set the electric
piano’s Key Touch (explained above), and set up any of the
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You can select:
• Tremolo—This effects causes notes to swing side-to-side,
left-to-right, as in classic Stage-model electric pianos.
• Chorus—Chorus adds the shimmering effect so commonly
applied to electric pianos.
• Phaser—Funky electric pianos often use phasing that adds
a whooshing swirl to the sound.
• EQ—EQ allows you to brighten-up or smooth out an
electric piano sound to taste.
• Speaker Simulator—This effect helps recreate the sound of
vintage electric piano speakers.
To customize any of these effects, press the appropriate
F button—the effect’s F button lights onscreen and its
parameters are displayed. You can adjust the displayed
parameters using the REALTIME CONTROL knobs. Each
parameter is numbered to show the knob that controls it.
For a detailed explanation of the electric piano parameters, see the Effect
List section of the your Owner’s Manual, starting on Page 270.
How a Patch Works
If you want to edit patches or create your own, you’ll need
to understand what makes a patch tick, so to speak. In this
section, we’ll discuss the mechanics of a patch.
Where Does a Patch Get Its Sound?
Each Fantom-X patch is actually a group of one or more audio
recordings playing back together as a single sound. There are
lots of settings in a patch that control how the recordings play
and interact—the Fantom-X effects contribute significantly to
a patch’s sound, too—but everything starts with this group of
recordings.
There are two kinds of recordings a Fantom-X patch can play.
It can play:
• built-in recordings—The Fantom-X contains 1,436 brief
sound recordings stored as PCM waveforms. When you
install an SRX Series wave expansion board, you add even
more waveforms from which patches can be built.
• your own recordings—A patch can also play recordings, or
“samples,” you’ve captured yourself on the Fantom-X, or
that you’ve imported via USB. These may be brief chunks of
sound, like the built-in waves, or complete performances.
When you sample something on the Fantom-X, it’s a patch that plays it. See
the Workshop series’ Sampling on the Fantom-X for more on sampling.
Tones: The Structure of a Patch
Each patch is a set of four identical sound-producing devices
called “tones.” It’s the tones that actually play the recordings
that comprise a patch.
Each tone can play:
• a stereo waveform or
sample, or
• two mono waveforms
or samples.
A patch may or may not use all four of its tones, depending on the
complexity of the sound its programmer is trying to achieve.
A tone doesn’t have to play a stereo waveform or sample, or two mono
waveforms or samples—it can play a single mono waveform or sample
if you like.
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Each tone has its own set of about 90 parameters that
determine how its waveforms or samples play. Tones can be
set to play together in different ways, resulting in a variety of
different sounds from the same basic sonic materials.
In addition, there are parameters that control the behavior of
the combined sound of the patch’s active tones.
Creating Your Own Patches
After you’ve read the following sections and are ready to get started, see
Page 56 in the Owner’s Manual for some helpful patch-programming tips.
In this booklet, we discuss editing and creating patches on the
Fantom-X itself. If you prefer, you can accomplish the same thing on your
computer using the Fantom-X Editor (and Librarian) software found on the
Fantom-X Editor CD-ROM that came with your Fantom-X.
To get to a patch’s parameters, go to the Patch Play screen, and
press PATCH EDIT.
The Fantom-X makes it easy for you to compare your edits against any
other patch—or against the last-saved version of the current patch—to
help you get your bearings. See Page 60 in the Owner’s Manual.
Getting the Right Tones
Since a patch is made up of its tones, most of patch programming
is about selecting the right waves or samples for the tones and
adjusting the tones’ parameters to taste.
A patch’s effect plays a large role in its final sound, too. To learn more about
effects, check out the Workshop series’ The Fantom-X Effects booklet.
If you’re merely tweaking an existing patch, your tones are
most likely already in place. When you’re creating your own
patches, however, the first thing you’ll want to do is figure out
how many tones you really want to use. Many of the factory
patches sound great with just one or two tones. There’s no
need to use all four available tones unless each one really
contributes to the sound you want—there’s no point in doing
programming work for no reason, after all. There’s another
reason, too, as discussed in the following section.
About Tones and Polyphony
Every synth or sampler has a maximum number of waves or
samples it can play at a single time. This limit is referred to
as the instrument’s “available polyphony,” and each wave or
sample in use is called a “voice” in this context.
Each stereo wave or sample a tone plays uses two voices, one
for its left side, and one for the right. Likewise, a tone uses two
voices when it plays two mono waves or tones. The more tones
a patch uses, the more voices of polyphony it eats up. With
four tones active, a patch can use eight voices of polyphony
for each note you play. If you play a three-note chord, you’d be
using 24 voices—if you play two chords with the sustain pedal
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Since the Fantom-X can play a whopping 128 voices at
once, you’re unlikely to have any problems playing patches
in Patch mode. When you’re using multiple patches during
recording, however, it’s possible you’ll notice notes not playing
in passages with lots of dense instrumentation. If this occurs,
check the patches you’re using and see if you can live without
any of their tones.
You can easily see how many voices you’re using in either Patch or
Performance mode. Hold down SHIFT and press F4 (Voice Monitor) to view
a graphic display of the voices currently in use.
Activating and Selecting Tones
To turn tones on or off on the Patch Edit screen, press F8 (Tone
Sw/Sel) to show the Tone Switch/Select F buttons.
• To turn each of the four possible tones on or off—press the
desired F1-F4 button. When a tone is active, it lights yellow
onscreen.
• To edit a tone’s parameters—press the corresponding F5-
F8 button. When a tone’s selected for editing, it turns
red onscreen. To edit the parameters of multiple tones
simultaneously, press their F buttons at the same time.
To return to the patch parameters, press EXIT.
The Patch Parameter Sections
The patch-wide and tone-specific parameters are arranged
in sections from top to bottom on the Fantom-X display. To
move from section to section, press F2 (↓) or F1 (↑) . To edit
a parameter within the selected section, press 5 or 6 to
highlight it and turn VALUE to adjust its setting.
What The Parameter Sections Do
Your Owner’s Manual—starting on Page 60—provides more
details than we have room for here, but here’s a general
overview of the parameter sections to get you started.
• General—These parameters apply to the patch as a whole.
It’s where you sets its musical category, overall level and
panning, and set the patch’s importance to you when
polyphony is at its limit. You can adjust its tuning and
response, and do some overall tweaking to a few key
parameters. See Page 60 in the Owner’s Manual for more.
• Wave—These parameters allow you to select each tone’s
PCM wavesample(s) or sample(s), and set their basic
behavior. See Page 62 in the Owner’s Manual.
• TMT (Tone Mix Table)—Set the manner in which the active
tones interact here. Also, control the basic volume and
playback characteristics of a tone with these settings. See
Page 63 in the Owner’s Manual.
• Pitch—Set a tone’s basic tuning here, and how it responds
to the Pitch Bend/Modulation lever, as well as the pitch
envelope below. See Page 67 in the Owner’s Manual.
• Pitch Env (Pitch Envelope)—The pitch envelope allows you
to automate changes to a tone’s pitch as a note plays. See
Page 68 in the Owner’s Manual.
• TVF (Time Variant Filter)—The Time Variant Filter can
remove selected frequency ranges from a tone’s waveform
or sample. Set the properties and basic behavior of the
filter here. See Page 69 in the Owner’s Manual.
• TVF Env (TVF Envelope)—The TVF envelope allows you to
automate changes to a tone’s frequency content as a note
plays. See Page 71 in the Owner’s Manual.
• TVA (Time Variant Amplifier)—The TVA parameters set the
basic volume behavior of a tone, and set its panning. See
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• TVA Env (TVA Envelope)—The TVA envelope allows you to
automatically shape a tone’s volume as a note plays. See
Page 72 in the Owner’s Manual.
• Output—The Output parameters determine where a tone’s
sound goes: to effects or directly to selected physical
outputs. You can set the amount of the tone to be sent to
the desired effects. See Page 73 in the Owner’s Manual.
• LFO 1, LFO 2—LFOs provide repeating, cyclical changes
to the desired parameter values, such as pitch, panning
and more. Each tone has two standard LFOs that can be
configured as desired. See Page 74 in the Owner’s Manual.
• Step LFO—The step LFO allows you to set up more complex
repeating changes than a standard LFO. See Page 76 in the
Owner’s Manual.
• Solo/Porta (Portamento)—These parameters determine
whether the entire patch plays only one note at a time, or
allows multiple simultaneous notes, and sets the way in
which one note moves to the next. Portamento, or note-
sliding, is also controlled by this group of settings. See
Page 77 in the Owner’s Manual.
• Misc—These miscellaneous parameters allow you to delay
the start of a tone as you play, and to set a tone’s response
to certain MIDI messages. See Page 78 in the Owner’s
Manual.
• CTRL 1, 2, 3, 4—These parameters constitute the patch’s
“matrix control” area. Matrix control allows you to use a
variety of devices, including MIDI messages, to alter patch
parameter values as notes play. Each of the four CTRL
screens lets you select a controlling device, or “source,” and
up to four parameters, or “destinations,” for manipulation.
You can select as your sources the controllers transmitted
from the REALTIME CONTROL knobs, as we’ll explain in the
next section.
Programming the REALTIME CONTROL Knobs
To program the behavior of the REALTIME CONTROL knobs
when their ASSIGNABLE LED is lit:
1. Hold down SHIFT and turn any of the knobs—the Control
Setting screen appears. On this screen you can set each
of the four knobs to transmit the desired type of MIDI
message.
You can also press F2 (↓) or F1 (↑) to display and set the assignable
behavior of the D Beams and ASSIGNABLE SW buttons.
2. When you’re done, press F8 (System Write)—in Patch mode,
realtime control settings are stored in global memory.
(In Performance mode, each performance has its own
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Zoom Editing
While you can access all of a patch’s parameters from the first
editing screen, the Fantom-X offers a deeper set of Zoom
screens on which graphic presentations of key parameters are
displayed. These make editing even easier and more intuitive.
Here’s the TVA Envelope Zoom display
To view a Zoom display, press F3 (Zoom Edit) in the main
patch-editing screen. The Zoom displays are arranged into two
sets that you can toggle between by pressing F6.
To view a Zoom display, press its F1-F4 button.
The Fantom-X Bookmark feature allows you to bookmark screens you
visit often so you can get back to them instantly whenever you’re editing
patches. See Page 37 in the Owner’s Manual.
Copying Tone Settings
If you’d like to copy the settings from one tone to another
within the same patch—or even “borrow” the settings of a
tone from another patch—use the Tone Copy feature. On the
main patch editing screen, press F5 (Tone Copy) to display the
Patch Tone Copy window in which you can select the tone you
want to copy (the Source patch and tone) and where you want
to copy it (the Destination patch and tone).
To audition the copy source patch, press F6 (Compare) so the Compare
button lights red.
When you’re ready, press F8 (Exec) to make the copy.
Final Touches
Once you’ve got your new patch’s parameters the way you
want them, take a little time to program the patch’s effect. The
Fantom-X effects add a lot to the sound of a patch.
If you plan to use your patch in a recording on the Fantom-X,
don’t worry about any slight changes you may need to make
to the patch so it fits perfectly in your arrangement. Recording
work takes place in Performance mode, where you can tweak
many patch parameters while hearing the patch in context.
Be sure to save your patch to user or card memory when you’re done, as
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Saving New or Edited Patches
Whether you’ve been editing an existing patch or creating a
new one, store your work in the Fantom-X’s memory before
selecting another patch or powering off to avoid losing your
work. To do so, you’ll “write” the patch. Here’s how.
Start by pressing WRITE—the Write Menu screen
appears, ready to store your patch since you’re
coming from a patch-editing screen.
If “Patch/Rhythm” isn’t highlighted at the top of the screen,
press F2 (Patch/Rhythm). If it is, you can press ENTER instead
if you like.
To name a patch:
1. The first character position is underlined, so turn VALUE to
select the first character of the patch’s name.
2. Press 4 to move the underline to the next character’s
position, and turn VALUE to select the second character.
3. Repeat Step 2 to enter the characters of the patch name
you want.
As you name the patch, you can:
• Press F1 (Change Type) repeatedly to jump between
upper-case, lower-case and numeric characters.
• Press F2 (Delete) to remove the character at the underline’s
current location.
• Press F3 (Insert) to insert a blank space in which you can
enter a new character at the underline’s current location.
When you’ve finished naming the patch, press F8 (Write). The
Patch Write window pops up:
1. Use F3 (↓) and/or F2 (↑) to select the Fantom-X’s internal
user memory as the location in which the patch is to be
saved, or to select Card if you’ve installed a memory card.
2. Turn VALUE to select the user or card location in which
you’d like to store the patch, and then press F8 (Write) to
store the patch.
If there’s already a patch in the selected location, and you’d like to audition
it before replacing it with a new patch, press F4 (Compare) so it turns red.
As long as Compare is on, you can try out patches to see which one you
want to replace. To turn off Compare, press F4 (Compare) again.
Don’t worry too much about replacing one of the factory user patches.
They’re all copies of preset patches permanently stored in your Fantom-X.
3. The Fantom-X asks if you’re sure you want to proceed.
Press F8 (Exec) to finish storing the patch.

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Selecting Patches Remotely Via MIDI
Since the Fantom-X has such extraordinary sounds, you may
want to use it with an external sequencer, such as one you’d
run on a computer. You can easily select Fantom-X sounds
directly from a sequencing program by transmitting the
appropriate MIDI messages on the MIDI channel for the
Fantom-X’s keyboard or pads in Patch mode, or the patch’s
part channel in Performance mode.
See Page 230 in the Owner’s Manual to learn about the Kbd and Pad Patch
TX/RX Channel parameters in Patch mode. Performance Parts 1-16 receive
MIDI messages on MIDI Channels 1-16, respectively, by default.
To select a patch via MIDI, send the Fantom-X the appropriate
Bank Select MSB and LSB values, and Program Change value.
These values are listed in the following chart.
The XP groups in the following chart depend on the SRX boards you’ve
installed. See each installed board’s Owner’s Manual.
Patch Bank Select and Program Change Chart
Group Number Bank Select Program
MSB LSB Number
USER 001-128 87 0 1-128
129-256 87 1 1-128
CARD 001-128 87 32 1-128
129-256 87 33 1-128
PR-A 001-128 87 64 1-128
PR-B 001-128 87 65 1-128
PR-C 001-128 87 66 1-128
PR-D 001-128 87 67 1-128
Group Number Bank Select Program
MSB LSB Number
PR-E 001-128 87 68 1-128
PR-F 001-128 87 69 1-128
PR-G 001-128 87 70 1-128
PR-H 001-128 87 71 1-128
GM (2) 001-256 121 0- 1-128
XP-A SRX-01 001- 93 0 1-
SRX-02 001- 93 1 1-
: : : : :
XP-B SRX-01 001- 93 0 1-
SRX-02 001- 93 1 1-
: : : : :
XP-C SRX-01 001- 93 0 1-
SRX-02 001- 93 1 1-
: : : : :
XP-D SRX-01 001- 93 0 1-
SRX-02 001- 93 1 1-
: : : : :
The End
We hope you’ve enjoyed this introduction to the amazing
sounds of the Fantom-X. Check out the other Workshop
series booklets, as well your Fantom-X Handbook and Owner’s
Manual. We’re confident you’ll have a great time with the
exciting, inspiring Fantom-X.
For the latest Fantom-X updates and support tools, visit the Roland U.S.
Web site at www.RolandUS.com. If you need personal assistance, call our
amazing Product Support team at 323-890-3745.