Owner's Manual - Roland

TroubleshootingIssues Related to SequencerSong data does not play back correctlyCheck the following points.• Has the Receive General MIDI/General MIDI 2 System OnSwitch been turned ON?Set the Rx GM System ON/Rx GM2 System ON parameter(SYSTEM/MIDI) to “ON” (p. 231).• Are you trying to start playback from midway through thesong?The beginning of a GM score song contains a General MIDI/General MIDI 2 System On message. In some cases, a GM Scorecannot be played back correctly unless this message is received.• Are you trying to play song data designed for the GS Format?When the Fantom-X receives a GS Reset message, the Fantom-Xis enabled for the GS format. This permits playback of musicdata bearing the GS logo (GS music data). However, datacreated exclusively for the Sound Canvas Series may not playback properly on the Fantom-X.After recording, the song does not sound when I play it back.Have the tracks been muted?Defeat muting (p. 107).The tempo is different than the last time I played back the song.If a song is played back after the tempo is changed, then thenew tempo is not saved unless the song is saved to the usermemory or memory card. Conversely, the previous tempo willbe erased when you save the song. When saving songs,carefully check the current tempo.Locate Positions set in song have disappeared.Check the following points.• Was the disk saved in a format other than MRC-Pro format(SMF 0 or 1)? Locate positions will be saved with the song dataonly when saving in MRC-Pro format.• Are you using Quick Play? In order to use locate positions, thesong must be loaded into the Fantom-X.Sound Device Tones Are Switched ArbitrarilyAfter using a MIDI sequencer to play a song, sounds stoppedplaying, and no sound is played even when Program Changesare sent.It could be that a Bank Select in the song data that is notspecified by the Fantom-X was encountered in the song. Nosound is played if the tone group is not one designated by theFantom-X with Bank Select MSB/LSB. Note that if you omit theBank Select, and send only the Program Change, the tone in thecurrently selected group that has the specified Program Changenumber will play. Try reselecting the tone using the panelcontrols. Furthermore, when selecting tones from an externalMIDI device, be sure to send the Bank Select MSB/LSB and theProgram Change as a single set for reliable reproduction. Firstsending the MSB and LSB (the order in which these are sentdoes not matter), followed by the Program Change.For more about the relationship between the Bank Select MSB/LSB and corresponding tone groups, refer to (p. 330).In some cases, you may be unable to hear any sound afterplaying the last song that was faded-out. This may be becausethe volume has been lowered by volume messages orexpression messages. Check the value of these messages, andset them to appropriate values.Performances are sluggish, or have interruptions.Problems of sluggish and interrupted performances can crop upvery easily when the sequencer or sound generator used for theperformance has to handle heavy data loads.Main causes and possible corrective measures are consideredbelow.• Are more than 128 voices playing simultaneously?Reduce the number of voices. The composition of Fantom-XPatches is such that up to eight Waves may be used for onePatch. When using such Patches, even though only one soundmay be heard, it is actually eight sounds that are being playedsimultaneously. In addition, with certain sounds likecontinuous sounds with long releases, even though the actualsound may not be audible to you, processing for playing thesound is still underway, so in these cases as well, theperformance data can differ from the actual number of voicesbeing played.Use the Microscope (p. 192) to check the following points.• Has an unneeded program change been input? Or are thereduplicate program changes?• Were any mistakes made in setting the data MIDI channelswhen Program Change messages were input?Data supposed to be present does not appear in microscope.Check the following points.In the Part Information window you can check the number ofnotes for which sound is actually being processed (p. 106).• Are you using a Patch that uses a lot of LFO?Try changing to a different Patch. LFO processing invariablyplaces a big load on the machine, so heavy use of the LFO slowsdown processing for the Fantom-X overall, which can end uphaving affecting the expression of sounds themselves.• Are the wrong tracks selected?• In View Select (p. 194), is any data set not to be displayed?252