I am fantom stupid....

man, unlock your potential first then everything else will be trivial...

The best place to start is to download all the Workshop booklets from the Roland US site. They're extremely well written and once you've been through them with your Fantom you'll have left the runway and be on your way up.
Go here and click the Support tab:
Workshop Booklets

John

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Just play with it, enjoy..
Try not to do too much at once or you will get confused or lost.
The fantom is bigger than you think..
baby steps before you can walk.
Then you can run like the wind..

Go to a library and check out....



"Home Recording for musicians for Dummies"

One of the best books you can read for technical knowledge...If you are a beginner......

Very well written....easy to read....

Thanks for the suggestion's. I will try them all.

I agree with all said. Those workbooks are very good at parceling all that info down into bite-sized chunks. I had 'em all printed out at my local photocopy store, and put 'em in a binder along with a copy of the manual.

So, with my particular difficulty in focusing with LARGE amounts of info, the first thing I do is start a short song, 8-16 measures or so. Then, as I run into SPECIFIC obstacles, I'll read up and try it. Then bit by bit, I figure things out one at a time. I hope to have a short soundtrack clip done by this weekend for a PR video at work.

"Trying is the first step towards failure" - Homer Simpson

BTW if someone has problems with so user friendly and easy keyboards like fantomX then what would they do with e.g. motif?

I sometimes select ONE FEATURE.....
and sit down at my board and play with it...

I will have the manual for reference and just study that ONE feature.....

The Fantom is SO complex....trying to take it all in at once can be overwhelming...

Did you get my message about the Audio Expansion Track?

onearm