Roland Piano Creating a Patch, How to Make the Patch Settings, Four Tips for Editing Patches

Creating a Patch

With the Fantom, you have total control over a wide variety of settings. Each item that can be set is known as a parameter. When you change the values of parameters, you are doing what is referred to as Editing. This chapter explains the procedures used in creating patches, and the functions of the patch parameters.

How to Make the Patch Settings

Start with an existing patch and edit it to create a new patch. Since a patch is a combination of up to any four tones, you should listen to how the individual tones sound before you edit.

Four Tips for Editing Patches

●Select a patch that is similar to the sound you wish to create (p. 32).

It’s hard to create a new sound that’s exactly what you want if you just select a patch and modify its parameters at random. It makes sense to start with a patch whose sound is related to what you have in mind.

●Decide which tones will sound (p. 36).

When creating a patch, it is important to decide which tones you are going to use. In the Patch Edit screen, set Tone Switch

1–4 to specify whether each tone will sound (on), or not (off). It is also important to turn off unused tones to avoid wasting voices, unnecessarily reducing the number of simultaneous notes you can play. Tones for which the Tone Switch displays a check mark (✔) will sound.

●Check the Structure setting (p. 56).

The important Structure parameter (PATCH/TMT) determines how the four tones combine. Before you select new tones, make sure you understand how the currently selected tones are affecting each other.

●Turn Effects off (p. 165).

Since the Fantom effects have such a profound impact on its sounds, turn them off to listen to the sound itself so you can better evaluate the changes you’re making. Since you will hear the original sound of the patch itself when the effects are turned off, the results of your modifications will be easier to hear. Actually, sometimes just changing effects settings can give you the sound you want.

1.Access the PATCH PLAY screen, and select the patch whose settings you wish to modify (p. 32).

You cannot edit the patches in the PR-E (GM2) group.

If you want to create all your patches from the ground up, rather than the patches that have already been prepared, carry out the

Initialize operation (p. 43).

2.Press [MENU].

The Menu window appears.

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3.Press or to select a “Patch Edit,” and then press [8 (Select)].

The Patch Edit screen appears.

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4.The parameters are organized into several editing groups. Press [1 (▲)] or [2 (▼)] to select the tab for the editing group that contains the parameter you wish to edit.

For details on how the parameters are grouped, refer to

“Parameter list” (Sound/Parameter List).

5.Use [CURSOR] to move the cursor to the parameter you wish to modify.

•Some of the parameters have a “ ” symbol. This indicates that if you press [LIST] when setting one of these parameters, the related window will appear. For example if you press [LIST] at a parameter that requires you to specify a name, the Name window will appear.

•When all the parameters cannot be shown within a single settings screen, a scroll bar will be displayed at the right side of

the screen. In such cases, press to scroll the screen downward.

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