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PRST 003:Within You
Within You provides a group of instruments for playing Indian music. It
shows the creative ways in which you can split your keyboard.
First of all, we’ve got something new here: Part 8 is playing a rhythm set, as
shown in the Type column. This gives Within You tabla sounds that play from
Middle C to the G# above it. You’ve also got
a sitar gliss—
• in the octave just below Middle C.
sitar notes with a drone—
• below the sitar gliss.
clean sitar notes—
• above the tablas.
a synth pad—
• behind all of the sitar notes, courtesy of Parts 4 and 8.
PRST 024:Syn Bass Menu
Sounds in a live set don’t have to be split or layered—they can also be
assembled in a live set for quick access. This can par ticularly handy onstage
or in a fast-paced studio session. Syn Bass Menu is a good example of this, as
are all of the live sets with “Menu” in their names.
The key to this type of live set is the setting of the KBD switch we first noted
on Page 6. Notice how they’re all turned off in Syn Bass Menu.
Play the keyboard—you hear the sound of the first par t’s patch, Big Mini 2.
If no KBD switches are turned on, when you haven’t manually selected any
other parts, the first part’s sound plays.
Otherwise in the Fantom-G, when there are no KBD switches turned on, the
part that’s currently selected plays. Press 6 until you’ve selected the second
part and play the TickerBs patch.
Use the 6 button to check out the other bass patches in this live set.
PRST 005:G-Grand
G-Grand is a great Fantom-G piano, divided up into eight optimally-tweaked
key ranges. The reason we’re here, though, is something else altogether.
Check out the Pad Mode parameter setting the arrow above’s pointing to:
It says “RHYTHM PTN,” for “rhythm pattern.” The Fantom-G’s DYNAMIC PADS
can do quite a few different things. They can be set so that they do different
things depending on the live set you’ve got selected; this is their default
behavior, and a very handy way to work onstage.