Owner`s manual

3 Select the song you’d like to load.

4 Click F8 (Load), and when the Fantom-G asks you if you’re sure, click

F7 (OK).

Creating a New Song

While you can always add a new song to the current project, we

recommend starting a new project for a new song if you plan to record

audio tracks or create new samples in the song. This will help keep the

song as compact as possible for saving and loading. However, if you

plan to use materials that are already in a project—samples, rhythm

phrases, RPS phrases, and so on—you should go ahead and create your

new song in that project.

If you think that the audio tracks and samples in your new project may

exceed the 32 MB of available sample RAM in Internal memory, create

your new project on a USB stick that has enough room.

If you’ve just created a new project, the Fantom-G automatically selects the

first new, empty project for you, 001 INIT SONG. You’re good to go.

If you’re adding a new song to a project that already contains songs:

1 Press the LIST/EDIT SONG button to display the Song Play screen.

2 Press F1 (Song List) to display the Song List screen.

3 Select a song called “INIT SONG” that has no checkmark or file icon in

its File column—each of these songs is a new, unused song.

Setting the Song’s Time Signature

A new Fantom-G song begins in 4/4 time, which is likely to be what you

want. However, you can change the song’s time signature, of course, before

sequencing or recording. Here’s how:

1 On either the Song Play or Song Edit

screen, click F7 (Song Util) to display the

Song Utility menu.

2 In the Song Utility menu, highlight Beat

Track, and then click F8 (Select)—this

opens the song’s Microscope editor

window, where you’ll see the current

time signature.

3 Press 4 once—the time-signature numerator becomes highlighted.

4 Turn the Value dial to set the numerator as desired.

5 If necessary, use the 4 button and Value dial to set the time-

signature denominator.

6 When you’re done setting the time signature, press the EXIT button.

You can add time-signature changes throughout a song, as we’ll explain

in the Perfecting Songs, MIDI Tracks, and Audio Tracks booklet.

For the rest of this booklet, we’ll assume you’re in 4/4 unless

otherwise noted.