Roland FANTOM-8 - Sequencer; How the Sequencer Is Structured; Playing the Sequencer

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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, and these variations are called 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 specied for each pattern.
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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.
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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 [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 [APLAY] button.
Each track’s pattern that’s in play-standby mode will play.
5 If you touch a pattern box that’s not playing, the pattern you touch is
played.
5 By directly touching a colored pattern box in the screen, you can switch
patterns for each track.
4. If you press the [9STOP] button, pattern playback stops for
all tracks.
5 If you touch a pattern box that’s playing, only the pattern that you
touched stops.
5 If you switch or stop/start patterns while another pattern is playing,
the change automatically happens at measure boundaries of the other
playing pattern.
Sequencer