Owner's Manual - Roland

SamplingSampling Earlier in Time(Skip Back Sampling)Sometimes you may want to preserve a nice phrase that youhappened to play a bit earlier. In such cases, you can use the SkipBack Sampling function to sample sounds that were played earlier intime.When you execute skip-back sampling, several beats of your priorperformance are saved as a sample. You can assign this sample to apad and play it from the pad.fig.14-0094. Press [F8 (Exec)]; now you can play the sample from thepad.If you want to edit the sampled sound or play it from thekeyboard, press [SAMPLE EDIT] to access the Sample Editscreen.• Press [F3 (Sample Modify)] to edit the sample (p. 155 andfollowing).• Press [F6 (Assign KB/Pad)] to assign the sample to a keyboardpart (p. 152).You can specify how far back sampling will occur when youperform skip-back sampling (5–40 seconds). With the factorysettings this is set to 10 seconds.Button lit:Button unlit:Button blinking:Skip-back sampling can be performed in thisstate.Skip-back sampling cannot be performed.Notoperating. You cannot use skip-back sampling ifthere is insufficient free memory.The following screen will appear, and Skip BackSampling will be executed.Samples captured by Skip Back Sampling will be lost when youturn off the power. If you want to keep the sample, perform theSave procedure (p. 159).1. Play the Fantom-X’s keyboard or pads, or connect aninstrument or some other device to the AUDIO IN jacks orDIGITAL IN and input sounds or phrases.2. Press [SKIP BACK SAMPLING].The following screen will appear, and Skip Back Sampling willbe executed.fig.14-010_50When Skip Back Sampling ends, the Assign to Pad screen willappear. Now you can specify the pad that will play this sound.3. Specify the pad that you want to use; you can either turnthe VALUE dial or use [INC] [DEC] to select the pad number,or simply strike the desired pad.If you want to time-stretch the sample to match the tempo,press [F1 (Tempo Sync)].145