How the Fantom-G sequencer works
21 Apr 2008, 16:35Hello all!
As promised, I am posting the information about the undo history in the Fantom-G's sequencer.
When you record anything into a MIDI track, it is not recorded as a plain track like in all previous Fantoms. It is recorded as a phrase that is automatically inserted into the sequencer. After you have recorded several tracks, you have them in the sequencer, but can also access them as phrases, so no need to do "copy to pattern" if you want to assign phrases to the pads via RPS.
Now, there is a useful "track clear" function in the menu, which quickly clears what you have in the current track. But it only deletes the reference to the phrase that is in the track, so the track is clear but the phrase is still there in the phrase list. If you have several takes, all these takes are kept there: you can select and insert the best one and perfect it via the microscope edit mode.
When you save the song, all used phrases are saved with it of course. What happens to all the unused phrases? If you do not save them manually, they will be emptied when you power the unit off. This means that you do not have to clear all those hundreds of bad takes yourself, all is kept clean.
If you perform a copy operation on a phrase, it will not copy the note events but just put another instance of that phrase. This means, should you make some corrections to the original, all it's copies will update accordingly, which will save many of us tons of time.
So, that's how it works on the Fantom-G and I think this approach is simply terrific. It will definitely help all of those who will work on the G to get all the previous recording pain away and shorten the distance from the idea to it's realisation. Great work, Roland!
As promised, I am posting the information about the undo history in the Fantom-G's sequencer.
When you record anything into a MIDI track, it is not recorded as a plain track like in all previous Fantoms. It is recorded as a phrase that is automatically inserted into the sequencer. After you have recorded several tracks, you have them in the sequencer, but can also access them as phrases, so no need to do "copy to pattern" if you want to assign phrases to the pads via RPS.
Now, there is a useful "track clear" function in the menu, which quickly clears what you have in the current track. But it only deletes the reference to the phrase that is in the track, so the track is clear but the phrase is still there in the phrase list. If you have several takes, all these takes are kept there: you can select and insert the best one and perfect it via the microscope edit mode.
When you save the song, all used phrases are saved with it of course. What happens to all the unused phrases? If you do not save them manually, they will be emptied when you power the unit off. This means that you do not have to clear all those hundreds of bad takes yourself, all is kept clean.
If you perform a copy operation on a phrase, it will not copy the note events but just put another instance of that phrase. This means, should you make some corrections to the original, all it's copies will update accordingly, which will save many of us tons of time.
So, that's how it works on the Fantom-G and I think this approach is simply terrific. It will definitely help all of those who will work on the G to get all the previous recording pain away and shorten the distance from the idea to it's realisation. Great work, Roland!