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When you press:
• RESET—you return instantly to the beginning of the song.
• BWD—you jump to the first beat of the previous measure.
Hold down BWD to move backward through the song.
• FWD—you jump to the first beat of the next measure. Hold
down FWD to move forward through the song measure-
by-measure.
For a fast rewind, hold down BWD, and then press FWD. To fast-forward,
hold down FWD, and then press BWD.
• STOP—playback of the song stops.
• PLAY—playback of the song begins from your current
location. The PLAY button’s green indicator lights.
• REC—if you’re not currently recording, the REC button’s red
indicator flashes, and the Realtime Rec Standby window
opens to let you set up for recording. If you’re already
recording, the REC button’s indicator flashes to signify
Rehearsal mode, which we’ll discuss later on. (During
recording, the button’s indicator lights solid red.)
A Quickie Recording How-To
If you’re hot to start recording and don’t yet care about the
details, here’s a built-for-speed tutorial to get you started. We’ll
explain what it all means afterward.
Our quickie tutorial presumes you’ll be recording something you’re simply
playing on the keyboard or pads.
1. Whether you’re in Patch or Performance mode, press
REC—the Realtime Rec Standby window pops open,
and, by default, you hear the Fantom-X’s metronome.
Since we’re going quick-and-dirty, we’ll use the window’s
settings as they are, and we’ll use the current tempo for
now.
2. Press PLAY or F8 (Start)—your choice—to display the
Realtime Recording window and begin the one-bar
countoff before recording actually starts. At the countoff’s
first beat, you hear the “ding” of a bell.
During recording, a bell sound plays at the first beat of each measure to
help you know where you are in the measure.
3. At the end of the countoff’s four beats, play the keyboard
or pads as desired—the Fantom-X is now recording your
playing.
4. When you’re done playing, hit STOP to halt recording.
5. Press RESET to return to the beginning of your song, and
press PLAY to hear what you’ve recorded.
If you don’t like what you’ve recorded and would like to quickly get rid of
it, use the Fantom-X’s Undo feature. If you’re in Patch mode, press PATCH/
RHYTHM—if you’re in Performance mode, press MIXER or LAYER/SPLIT—
press MENU, select Undo/Redo, hit ENTER and then F8 (Exec).
These are the basic steps for most any recording, whether
you’re putting down a song’s first track, adding tracks to a song
or recording a pattern. Of course, when you take the time to
adjust the available parameters, you can do quite a few things
using these five simple steps.
The procedure for recording with a rhythm or arpeggio is a little different
than the one in our tutorial. We’ll discuss this in “Recording a Rhythm.” To
learn about recording with an arpeggio, see the Workshop series booklet
Advanced Fantom-X Recording Techniques
.
These steps are a rough roadmap for the recording process—
the following sections discuss your options in depth.
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