Fist of all, hi everyone. It's a pleasure to be here finally (I've been around for a while but never registered until now). I am a Fantom G8 owner for 5 months and a few days. Cyclops, I read about your problem today and I wanted to make an experiment because I hardly could believe it that Roland would make a "boomer" upgrade -)). So here's the deal. The microscope IS working for odd time signatures in phrases too, or at least for me it did. Here's the procedure.
1) Select an INIT SONG from the list and load it.
2) Insert a number of blank measures (using SONG UTILITY) for "TRACK ALL" or for a certain track that you want.
3) Press SONG EDIT and then INSERT and select an INIT PHRASE from the phrase list.
4) After you loaded the INIT PHRASE in the song, press EDIT PHRASE
5) In the Edit Phrase display, press Phrase Beat and specify the time signature of the phrase. Then hit REC in the phrase edit display and record the phrase (don't record in the song display)
6) Eventually save the phrase, then go to microscope mode. It should work, or at least that's how it worked for me. BUT BE CAREFUL ABOUT THIS: since you didn't record anything in the song display, the tempo message that stands in the beginning of the song will still be the default 120.0 so when you will leave the Phrase Edit screen you will see the tempo changing to 120. To stop that from hapenning, go to "Song Utility", select Tempo Track. You will go to the microscope mode wich will display the tempo message from the beginning of the song (and this message cannot be deleted). Use the right arrow near the scroll wheel to select 120 and modify this message to the tempo that you wish. And there you go. I placed my message here to. If it's still my first time, then I should go wild -)) Hope I won't get caught by the Secret Roland Agent
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