Roland Fantom-X Operation & User’s Manual

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The Fantom-X Workshop Series is a collection of booklets describing how to get the most from some of the exciting features of the Roland Fantom-X family of products. Much of what’s discussed in the series also applies to the Fantom-S keyboard and, to a lesser degree, the original Fantom. Each booklet covers a single top ...

Effects are enhancements you apply to an audio signal. An effect can make the original audio sound as if it’s occurring in some real or imaginary physical space. It can add complexity to the audio, or it can even change its personality in ways ranging from subtle to outrageous. The most common effects include: • reverb� ...

Multi-Effects (MFX) Processors The Fantom-X contains a set of multi-effect processors, or “MFX processors” for short. They’re called “multi-effect” processors because each one is capable of producing any one of 78 different effects. For a list of the 78 MFX algorithms, see Page 270 in the Fantom-X Owner’s Manual. ...

• after the signal’s gone through an MFX processor—by setting its output to MFX and adjusting the signal’s MFX reverb send level. • directly—by setting the signal’s output to A or B and adjusting the signal’s non-MFX reverb send level. All signals routed into the reverb go into the effect in mono. ...

they make a good place to start when selecting your effects. To navigate to them, press EFFECTS, and then F3 (MFX1/2) in Patch mode, or F3 (MFX1/2/3) in Performance mode. When you do this, the screen for one of your MFX processors appears. The currently selected MFX processor� ...

With this structure, signals going into MFX 1 continue on into MFX 2, so that both effects are applied. Signals going to MFX 3 remain separate. With this structure, signals going into MFX 1 and MFX 2 are processed separately, and then MFX 3’s effect is added to both. With this structure, all three MFX processors add their ef ...

Sounds of the Fantom-X. To select the desired output, start by setting the Patch Out Assign parameter. This parameter allows you to use a single common output setting for all of the patch’s tones, or to set the routing of each tone individually. To: • use the same output routing fo ...

pad—you’ll see the drum key’s name as shown circled in red on the previous page. A drum set contains many more drum keys than can be played on the Fantom-X’s 16 pads at a single time. During editing, you can select any of a set’s drum keys by playing it on the Fantom-X keyboard. You’l ...