saving and memory issues

15 Jan 2011, 21:00

Hi All. The G can be very Frustrating to do what should be the most simple of tasks!!!! Recorded a audio track and attempted to save the song. Memory Full Message came up....Sooooooooo Put in a 4Gig memory stick in the slot and format it an in available memory fantom says 3.99% available on memory stick Soooooooooo try again to save song...Same message...Memory Full. In usb page says IDLE. What does that mean??? Don't seem to be able to change it anyway and the manual tells bugger all. The G seems to be ignoring the fact that there is a 4Gig stick in its backside. Am I missing something here??? Why should this be so hard????? Hope you can help cause I'm stuffed if I know whats wrong. Should have stuck to my Korg Me Thinks. The G is a Great sounding machine but seems to be Convoluted in many ways!

Re: saving and memory issues

15 Jan 2011, 21:27

Your internal sample memory dosnt have enough free space.when recording and loading audio it places it as a sample,get a dimm memory chip for more sample(audio recording) time,or delete unused samples,or move the samples to your usb flash drive sample folder. and just load what you need for that session.
(Mind you, when you load samples it loads everything you have in the folder,not just one) so maybe importing audio from the system menu.would be more ideal. flash drives have nothing to do with internal sample time.
Hope this helps.

Capital Skill

my way of feeling what music is......THOUGH MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT,FEELING MY WAY ACROSS THE PLAIN OF CREATION TILL I FEEL TOTAL Consciousness AND BECOME ONE WITH WHAT IM CREATING.(IF I DECIDE TO STOP AND MOVE ON TO THE NEXT.SO BE IT)

Re: saving and memory issues

15 Jan 2011, 23:00

Hey Capital Skill. Thanks for your fast reply. I have got dimm expansion 544mb available. Still would,nt write the song( One accoustic guitar track). Anyway have figured it out. Saving whole project to stick each song. Seems to work OK. Would,nt you think Roland would give you more than 50mb of on board memory though. Bloody stingy if you ask me. We pay a bloody fortune for these machines. They should supply the memory to make em work properly. Are you listening to this Roland and others????????.

Re: saving and memory issues

15 Jan 2011, 23:35

Good to hear you figured it out,yea more mem would be better,as for what i do,i just make songs and record them in my daw when im done with them on the g.so mem isnt a big deal for my projects,i guess it all depends on what im working on.(stingy)lol
I dont really know what to say about the topic at hand,yea its a let down about namm as for the g,but im fine with the my g as is,for the stuff i do.im fine.

Capital Skill

my way of feeling what music is......THOUGH MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT,FEELING MY WAY ACROSS THE PLAIN OF CREATION TILL I FEEL TOTAL Consciousness AND BECOME ONE WITH WHAT IM CREATING.(IF I DECIDE TO STOP AND MOVE ON TO THE NEXT.SO BE IT)

Re: saving and memory issues

16 Jan 2011, 06:06

Yeah! Well I did go down the path of DAW. Sonar Producer in fact. Very good it is too. But You know what.? I still prefer the everything in the same box approach with a Keyboard attached. Somehow it feels more like a musical instrument and not so much like a computer. I know DAW is more powerful but I reckon the old way is more fun. IMHO you can't beat the feel of a good all in one Workstation.

Re: saving and memory issues

12 Mar 2011, 00:11

Hi, I found that if you have the MIDI Sync Out ON, the FG fails always to save the whole song with the Memory Full error.

If I put the MIDI Sync Out to OFF, I can save the whole song using the save song without problems.

I think it's some kind of bug of the OS.

Try it.

Re: saving and memory issues

13 Mar 2011, 04:04

As a general note, when you save your songs with some audio tracks, you are basically saving samples. And those are intended to be saved on an external media (= USB Stick, HD). In that regard, the Fantom G works in the same way as its competition.