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About the Workshop Booklets
Roland’s Fantom G6, G7, and G8—the Fantom-G family—set a new standard
for excellence in workstation keyboards, with spectacular sounds and
incredible built-in effect-processing muscle. A beautiful full-color LCD
display and innovative performance features make getting around a pleasure
and make the G6, G7, and G8 a dream to play. For recording, the Fantom-G
contains a powerful 152 MIDI/audio track sequencer. Each Fantom-G can
also host two Roland ARX SuperNATURAL™ cards whose breakthrough
modeling technology provides sounds with amazing sonic detail, expressive
possibilities, and sound-design opportunities.
Each Fantom-G Workshop Series book let focuses on one Fantom-G topic,
and is intended as a companion to the Fantom G6/G7/G8 Owner’s Manual.
This booklet requires Fantom-G Operating System v1.10 or higher. You can
download the latest Fantom-G O.S. for free from www.RolandUS.com.
About This Booklet
The best thing about the Fantom-G is the way in which it seamlessly brings
together all of the tools you need to create modern music.
Sequencer
Keyboard
Dynamic Pads
Arpeggiator
Realtime Controls
Sampler
Eects
Audio input
This booklet provides a hands-on introduction to the Fantom-G. We’ll take
you briefly through its different sections to give you an idea what ’s in store
for you on the Fantom-G.

Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet

Throughout this booklet, you’ll come across information that deserves
special attention—that’s the reason it ’s labeled with one of the following
symbols.
A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.
A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.
Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid
possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.
Meet Us At The Starting Line
Since the Workshop booklets attempt to accurately describe to you, and
show you, what you’re experiencing on your Fantom-G as you go through a
booklet, we need to start in the same place.
In this booklet, we’ll assume you’re working with a factory-fresh Fantom-G. If
you’ve already been writing patches, live sets, sample, songs, or anything
else, you should save your data—see the Owner’s Manual to learn how for
now—and then perform a factory reset. Here’s how:
Press the Fantom-G’s MENU button to display the MENU
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screen.
Press the
2 4 button twice to select the
Factory Reset box.
Press the F8 button underneath the right-
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hand corner of the display, and read the
warning that appears.
If you’re ready to proceed, press the F7
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button—a progress bar appears onscreen.
When the Fantom-G is reset, press F7 again to continue.
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The 4 button