Roland Fantom-X8 Owner's Manual

1Sampling on the Fantom-X®ÂØÒňΙNo. 6 in the Fantom-X Workshop SeriesWorkshop

10The Five Flavors of Sampling(Basic) SamplingBasic sampling captures audio coming into the Fantom-X while nothing else is going on—no patch or

11Mix SamplingWith Mix sampling, you can simultaneously capture audio coming into the Fantom-X input(s) along with audio from its keyboard, pads,

12Solo SamplingSolo sampling allows you to play or sing along with music playing on the Fantom-X, and capture only the live audio. When

13How Patches and Rhythm Sets Keep Track of SamplesSample-playing patches and rhythm sets identify the samples they play by their locations in u

14Placing a Sample into a Patch or Rhythm SetYou can create a patch or rhythm set for playing a sample—or add it to an already-existing patch or rhyth

15Creating a One-Sample Patch—Sample List Screen1. Highlight the desired sample in the sample list.2. Press F7 (Load Utility).3. Press F1 (Assign t

16Adding a Sample to a Rhythm Set—Sample List Screen1. Highlight the desired sample in the sample list.2. Press F7 (Load Utility).3. Press F2 (As

17Multi-Sample Patches vs Rhythm SetsSince multi-sample patches and rhythm sets both play more than one sample, what’s the difference between them?In

18Saving and Loading SamplesSaving Samples, Their Patches and Rhythm SetsTo store samples and their patches and rhythm sets:1. Save the sample or

19Samples are measured in bytes, the way things are usually measured in computer-based devices. Since most samples you record are thous

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20How to Save an Individual SampleWhen you save a stereo sample, its left and right sides—which are really two separate samples—are automatically save

21Deleting an Individual SampleHere’s how to completely erase a sample from user or card memory—and from sample RAM:1. Press SAMPLE LIST an

222. Either:• Press 3, 4, 5 or 6 as necessary to highlight Save Song + Samples as shown on the previous page and then press ENTER, or• Pre

23Loading All User or Card Memory at OnceThe Fantom-X’s Load All Samples operation loads the entire contents of user memory and card memory in

242. Using a USB A/B-type cable, connect the A-type USB plug to a USB jack on your computer, and the other end to the B-type USB jack on the Fantom-X

25Using the Import Audio Command1. Press SAVE/LOAD—the Save/Load menu appears.2. Either:• Press 3, 4, 5 or 6 as necessary to highlight Import Audio

264. To automatically:• load the Fantom-X demos’ samples at startup—set Load Preset Samples at Startup to On.• load all of your user and card

27Setting Sample ParametersProbably the best first place to go when editing a sample is to its Sample Parameter screen, which holds the sample’s

28The Sample Edit ScreenTo display a sample’s Sample Edit screen, highlight the sample in the sample list and press SAMPLE EDIT.In the top of th

29Sample Modify ToolsThe Fantom-X offers an array of sample-modifying operations —we’ll focus on a few important ones here.To learn about the Emphasis

3About the Fantom-X Workshop SeriesThe Fantom-X Workshop Series is a collection of booklets describing how to get the most out of some o

302. Press F3 (Sample Modify) to display the Sample Modify tools.3. Press F1 (Truncate).4. Turn on F6 (Overwrite) if desired.5. Press F8 (

31When you’ve chopped up a sample into a group of smaller samples, it’s easy to create a new rhythm set out of the samples, as we’ve seen.

32The chop points are shown as vertical dotted green lines.If more than 16 new samples are created, they won’t all fit on the pads at once.7. Play th

33Time-Stretching a SampleUnlike Tempo Sync—which only affects how a sample plays back—the Sample Modify Time-Stretch operation permanently cha

4A Very Few Important Concepts. Really.Sample CreationThump!=A sample is simply a digital recording of a sound. There are three ways such a

5The Fantom-X provides two places to store samples. Both utilize a form of long-lasting memory called “flash” memory. You can store you

6Skip Back Sampling stashes the audio it’s buffering in sample RAM. If there’s no room left there, Skip Back Sampling’s not available.When

7The Sampling Standby Screen ParametersOn the Sampling Menu screen, press the F button for the desired type of sampling—the Sampling St

8The Auto Trigger Level parameter is available only when F2 (Auto Trig) is enabled, as described in “Start Sampling Automatically” below.• Gap Time—D

9Applying Effects as You SampleThe Fantom-X allows you to add up to four effects to an incoming audio signal as you sample so the audio is