Roland Fantom-08 88-Key Music Workstation Keyboard - Manual (Page 26)

26
How the Sequencer Is Structured
Pattern
This unit’s sequencer lets you record and play back using 16 tracks
which correspond to the zones.
Each track can have up to eight patterns.
For each track, you can switch the variation during playback.
Each pattern can be up to 32 measures long, and will play as a loop
of the length that is specified for each pattern.
A
E
B
F
C
G
D
H
TRACK1
PLAY
ZONE1 ZONE2 ZONE3 ZONE4 ZONE5 ZONE6 ZONE16
TRACK2
PLAY
TRACK3
PLAY
TRACK4
PLAY
TRACK5
PLAY
TRACK6
PLAY
TRACK16
PLAY
PATTERN
Group
The combination of patterns created for each track is called a group.
You can create groups such as “Intro,” “Verse,” or “Fill” corresponding
to each section of your song.
A
E
B
F
C
G
D
H
TRACK1
PLAY
TRACK2
PLAY
TRACK3
PLAY
TRACK4
PLAY
TRACK5
PLAY
TRACK6
PLAY
TRACK16
PLAY
GROUP-01: Intro
GROUP
Song
The groups you create can be arranged into an order that’s called a
song. You can specify looping (LOOP) for individual groups and for
the entire song.
Step1 Step2 Step3 Step4 Step5
GROUP-01
Intro
GROUP-02
Verse1
GROUP-02
Verse1
GROUP-05
Ending
GROUP-03
Verse2
SONG
MEMO
Patterns, groups, and songs are all saved for each scene.
Playing the Sequencer
Playing Pattern
1 . Select a scene.
2 . Press the [PATTERN] button.
The PATTERN screen appears.
A box in which a phrase is recorded (pattern box) is shown in
color.
If you long-touch a track’s pattern box that’s already
recorded, the pattern box is shown highlighted. This means
that it’s in play-standby mode, and will play when you press
the [ ø PLAY] button. Only one pattern box for each track can
be in play-standby mode.
Exist Data
Playing
Exist Data
Play Standby
Exist Data
Loop Sw Off
Exist Data
(Color Selectable)
Empty
3 . Press the [ ø PLAY] button.
Each track’s pattern that’s in play-standby mode will play.
¹ If you touch a pattern box that’s not playing, the pattern you
touch is played.
¹ By directly touching a colored pattern box in the screen, you
can switch patterns for each track.
4 . If you press the [ ð STOP] button, pattern playback stops
for all tracks.
¹ If you touch a pattern box that’s playing, only the pattern that
you touched stops.
¹ If you change patterns, or stop/start a pattern while a
different pattern is playing back, the pattern automatically
stops/starts according to the Change Timing parameter
settings.
Sequencer