Live sound switching in studio mode
7 Feb 2011, 04:04Hi. I'm sure there's plenty of fantom-g users who have already figured this out. But I haven't seen anything in the forum about this.
Why do I want to do live switching in studio mode when the g seamlessly switches from one live setting to another? Well, as a fantom-x user, and benefiting from lazeeboy's excellent tutorial, I have built up my live sounds in 16 parts on the x and switched individual parts in and out using the pads. So when I was programming sounds into the g there were some occasions when eight parts in live setting were not sufficient for me, even allowing for the fact you can change from one set of eight parts to another....etc. This is because some of my songs (and by that I mean live numbers not recorded songs) are heavily layered for extra impact / fattening / key ranges etc.
There is another (admittedly slight) problem for me with live setting switching. I need single touch control and that means everything gets put into favourites (128 max) so with a substantial live set to programme in I was beginning to get concerned about some numbers taking up three, four, five, even six favourite settings. So for those songs which needed more than eight parts or needed multiple live settings I need the flexibility of the live sound switching in studio mode as per the fantom-x.
How to do it: Put fantom-g in studio mode. Identify the midi receive switches. Set computer sequencer to record (fantom's internal sequencer doesn't allow you to record this data directly). In fantom switch off midi channels 1 to 16 so the sysex data is recorded into the sequencer. Place all 16 midi messages right at the start of the sequence and save this as a midi file. Give it a name, e.g. template.mid. Transfer this midi file from the computer into the smf folder in the fantom. Select this file in the fantom and send it to phrase. Save the phrase (I named the phrase 'template' for easy identification). Hit studio setting and bring up whichever set you want this switching to work with. Hit pad mode and select rps. Save the studio setting with pad mode in rps. Hit pad setting. In the rps screen go down to 1 and select the template phrase. Change loop to once. Save the rps setting (again I named this template). Save the studio setting again. You should now see pad 1 is lit. Hit pad 1 and you should find all midi receive switches are turned off, i.e. no sound. (To turn them on again just move to the next studio setting and then back again - unless you want to save it again with all switches turned off.) To turn individual midi channels on you need to enter phrase edit mode, go to microscope, select which of the midi channels you want to switch on (use right arrow, highlight last 00, change to 01) then save this as a separate phrase. (NB duplicate the phrase first otherwise it will overwrite the template) Allocate the phrase to say 2 in the rps screen and you should find pad 2 lights and when you hit it - hey presto - desired channels switch on.
For my needs I find this quite useful although it does take a while to set it all up for each song. There is the added benefit of having two extra multi effects available which you don't have in live setting.
This is a necessarily brief explanation, I'll be happy to post in more detail with the sysex codes if the demand is there.
PC
Why do I want to do live switching in studio mode when the g seamlessly switches from one live setting to another? Well, as a fantom-x user, and benefiting from lazeeboy's excellent tutorial, I have built up my live sounds in 16 parts on the x and switched individual parts in and out using the pads. So when I was programming sounds into the g there were some occasions when eight parts in live setting were not sufficient for me, even allowing for the fact you can change from one set of eight parts to another....etc. This is because some of my songs (and by that I mean live numbers not recorded songs) are heavily layered for extra impact / fattening / key ranges etc.
There is another (admittedly slight) problem for me with live setting switching. I need single touch control and that means everything gets put into favourites (128 max) so with a substantial live set to programme in I was beginning to get concerned about some numbers taking up three, four, five, even six favourite settings. So for those songs which needed more than eight parts or needed multiple live settings I need the flexibility of the live sound switching in studio mode as per the fantom-x.
How to do it: Put fantom-g in studio mode. Identify the midi receive switches. Set computer sequencer to record (fantom's internal sequencer doesn't allow you to record this data directly). In fantom switch off midi channels 1 to 16 so the sysex data is recorded into the sequencer. Place all 16 midi messages right at the start of the sequence and save this as a midi file. Give it a name, e.g. template.mid. Transfer this midi file from the computer into the smf folder in the fantom. Select this file in the fantom and send it to phrase. Save the phrase (I named the phrase 'template' for easy identification). Hit studio setting and bring up whichever set you want this switching to work with. Hit pad mode and select rps. Save the studio setting with pad mode in rps. Hit pad setting. In the rps screen go down to 1 and select the template phrase. Change loop to once. Save the rps setting (again I named this template). Save the studio setting again. You should now see pad 1 is lit. Hit pad 1 and you should find all midi receive switches are turned off, i.e. no sound. (To turn them on again just move to the next studio setting and then back again - unless you want to save it again with all switches turned off.) To turn individual midi channels on you need to enter phrase edit mode, go to microscope, select which of the midi channels you want to switch on (use right arrow, highlight last 00, change to 01) then save this as a separate phrase. (NB duplicate the phrase first otherwise it will overwrite the template) Allocate the phrase to say 2 in the rps screen and you should find pad 2 lights and when you hit it - hey presto - desired channels switch on.
For my needs I find this quite useful although it does take a while to set it all up for each song. There is the added benefit of having two extra multi effects available which you don't have in live setting.
This is a necessarily brief explanation, I'll be happy to post in more detail with the sysex codes if the demand is there.
PC