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Pad Modes
The Fantom-G’s 16 pads can work together to accomplish a variety
of tasks quickly and easily. Each of these tasks, or “modes,” is called
a “pad mode.” There are 16 different pad modes. The fastest way to
get to the Pad Mode window is to press the PAD MODE button in
the DYNAMIC PADS area.
When you press PAD MODE, you display the Pad Mode window.:
When you’re viewing the Pad Mode window, each of the
16 pads acts as a button that selects a behavior for the
entire set of pads—beneath each pad, you can see the
mode it selects. When the Pad Mode window‘s visible,
the currently selected mode’s pad flashes. To select a
new pad mode, hit the corresponding pad.
Each pad mode has its own settings you can display by pressing
the PAD SETTINGS button.
This is the Pad Setting window for Sample Pad mode.
Who Controls the Pads’ Mode?
Each live set, studio set, and patch in the Fantom-G has its own settings for
the behavior of the pads, and the Fantom-G can automatically switch to
these settings when you select a new live set, studio set, or patch. This can
be handy when you know you’ll always want to use the pads a particular way
each time you call up a certain live set, studio set, or patch.
In other situations, you may want to set up the pads and have them retain
that behavior even as you select different live sets, studio sets, or patches.
The System Dynamic Pad parameters set whether the pads use a global
setup or settings belonging to individual live sets, studio sets, and patches.
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If you’re:
on the Pad Settings screen—
•
click F1 (System).
somewhere else—
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press MENU, click F2 (System), and
then click F2 (Group/Down) to select the Dynamic
Pad parameter group.
Select the Pad Assign Source parameter if it’s not already selected,
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and then set it as desired. To get the pads’ mode to:
change to the Pad Mode setting of each live set, studio set, or patch
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you select—
set the parameter to
TEMP
.
use the global Pad Mode setting on this screen—
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set it to
SYS
.
If you’ve selected
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SYS
, select the desired Pad Mode.
Assign Source and Rhythm Pattern Assign enable the automatic
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loading of RPS and/or rhythm-pattern sets. You can set either to:
TEMP—
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so each live and studio set automatically loads its own
RPS or rhythm-pattern set, respectively, upon selection.
SYS—
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to disable the automatic loading of RPS and rhythm
pattern sets, respectively, as live and studio sets are selected.