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hi
mark here from roland with the phantom
building on the steady stream of updates
since its release
phantom now has a huge leap forward with
version 2.0
let's take a look at what's new and make
sure to check the description below
for chapter links so you can jump
straight to the feature that interests
you the most
first and foremost phantom now has
multi-sampling
i'm very excited about this as the
potential here is massive
there's now microscope and piano roll
automation functions in phantom
sequencer
giving you more great ways to edit and
create your music
there's fresh ways now to route the
effects with tfx
which stands for total effects giving
you a choice of 90 different ones
some of the multi-effects and input
effects as well
advanced zoom edit pages for your
effects and drums
an expanded output assigned function
giving you lots more options
a renewed scene chain list with markers
and new zone control advanced with zone
transpose and other functions
it's very cool and last but not least
you can now choose different wallpapers
for your phantom's multi-touch display
and
coming very soon a multi-sample file
converter
which will convert the popular sound
font format to roland's svz format
for phantom keep watching as i give you
a brief overview of what phantom version
2
can do let's start by looking at the new
sampler
sampling on the phantom has a brand new
menu i can choose from sampling or
import to pad similar to before by
pressing sampling to pad
i can now choose from sampling phantom's
internal sounds as i play
or from an external input whether it's a
microphone or a guitar
or both at the same time there's an auto
trigger function giving me hands-free
sampling while i'm playing my instrument
with options for mono or stereo and a
click which can be set to tempo to keep
my performance in time
meter and waveform displays help me
check my levels and confirm my recording
and it's really easy for me to zoom in
on the samples and change the start
points
loop points and end points with
phantom's knobs
sampling to keyboard lets me record a
new sample
and save it as a tone this is a super
easy way for me to get great results
quickly
let's do one i've set up an seo two to
the phantom
i can use the mfx in this case the
enhancer to change the sound that i'm
sampling
and tweak it to my heart's desire i'll
set auto trigger so that once phantom
hears a sound it'll start sampling
straight away
and if i like what i hear i commit it to
memory and we have a brand new sound
it's at this point i can do some fine
tuning changing the start point
changing the gain fine tune and then
save it and now we have a new sample
which i can play
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so in this example i'm using a loop from
roland cloud world expansion
which i've downloaded and installed in
my phantom i've also hooked up my
microphone to one of phantom's inputs
and routed that through some effects i'm
using some compression
and some reverb which you'll be able to
hear just to enhance the sound
i'll select sample to storage and make
the sampling mode to both
keyboard and input this is great because
i'm going to use a loop that has been
professionally produced
but adding my own performance to make it
more organic
and also now completely unique to me so
i'm going to set auto trigger and see
how we go
well it's definitely human that's for
sure
okay this time i'm going to sample my
voice through the vocoder
and now we preview
i can also use a vocoded sample or
recording
as an oscillator or a parcel in zen core
which is awesome
so i'm going to use one of the samples
that i've already prepared
i've opened up tone edit and if i go
into wave group i can see i now have a
selection of
internal expansion sample and
multi-sample
as an oscillator and i've used three
different samples as three different
partials
and used all of the lfos and all of the
effects that are in zencore
to create this sound
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of course i can combine them with other
sounds like pianos and anything i like
pretty cool but i have to say that
multi-sampling is my favorite
and what i'm most excited about because
of the scope and what i can do with it
assigning samples to the different keys
is simple and if i need to do a quick
edit
it's easy to get where i need to go i
still can't believe that i can use a
sample of
anything anything as an oscillator or
what roland calls
partials but what's even more impressive
is that i can have
all four parcels in a zen core tone use
a multi-sample with up to 88 samples
each
and program their own velocity range not
to mention the step lfos and the amazing
filters
found inside zencore it's incredible
let me show you quickly how that works
i'm going to sample my guitar and again
using some compression on the input
i'll keep it simple but i'll record
these notes that if i assign the correct
original key parameter phantom will
automatically map the multiple samples
to the correct position
on the keyboard i'll select auto trigger
and i'm trying to make it as organic and
interesting as i can
record another one
little bits of imperfection make it more
interesting
and one more
now what i'll do is record another range
of samples
with different performance techniques so
that i can use them as different
velocity switching
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okay so let's make a multi-sample import
to multi-sample
by holding down shift i can select a few
of them and i can preview
them as well
so those three samples now that i've
selected i can actually create a new
tone
now i can edit those samples changing
the start points
and also changing the original keys
which will help
mapping when we do the multi-sampling
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this process makes it really simple for
multi-sampling
we can now go into multi-sample and
check how phantom has automatically
mapped
our samples for us which is so cool
let me hang up my guitar and i'll show
you a sound that i've made
using my samples this sound i made
myself
is using velocity switching it's using
multi-sample
it's using the zencore engine filters
envelopes
and also mfx
and i've got release samples happening
too it's a lot of fun
now i want to show you the great new
additions to phantom sequencer
the sequencer edit button gives me the
familiar piano roll but now also
microscope sequence edit
as well but piano roll has something new
there's an automation button where i can
select three different types of tools
to draw or edit on the touchscreen i can
choose from a selection of control
changes
and then literally touch the screen to
edit or design
cc movement like a filter or modulation
for example my favorite is the pencil
tool
watch this
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with microscope i can see a list of
parameters for each note
or event and do surgery to the finest
detail
really helping me fine-tune my music
phantoms knobs here let me easily move
around the notes and its parameters
and alter them to my liking tfx or total
effects
has now been added to the master effects
chain letting me choose
from 90 different ones these are the
same as the mfx or ifx that are
available
and it now gives me the ability to have
like a sweeping filter over my whole mix
or just something simple like an extra
limiter to give my production that final
glue
or mastering sheen as i mentioned before
effects have also now been added to the
external input
as an example i can now sing using a mic
through an effect and the vocoder
if i want and sample this the input can
be in stereo
or i can have two mono inputs running in
parallel but i still get to have two
independent fx running as stereo effects
this gives me lots of creative
possibilities when i'm sampling
there's so much more in version 2
there's additional routing of the pad
sampler for recording effects or even
back to the inputs for resampling
a new zoom edit for detailed editing of
all of the effects
as well as drum kit editing there's new
output routing to the physical outputs
on phantom with a ton of options
giving me the possibility to play a
backing track through phantom but only
recording my performance
to video scene chain has also had some
extras where i can now set markers
and easily swap groups of scenes around
or jump to a group of scenes
when i push the chain button again i get
a list of all my safe scene titles
very handy zone control has had an added
option where i can select advanced
this now lets me set up my laptop with
mainstage for example
and load my roland cloud plugins and of
course i have these options
but now there's some more red plays the
internal sounds
green plays the external sounds i'll
play the juno on main stage
but now we have the option where i can
select
yellow which gives me both internal and
external sounds
that's really cool and i can mix it up i
can make some internal
some external only and some both
also if i turn the lights off it will
let me play
the selected zone that is highlighted in
the selected region at the top
all of these advanced options give me so
much more control of my rig
each zone now also has its own dedicated
transpose function
for both internal and external two final
things
after touch sensitivity has an increased
range of 127
and last but not least phantom's
multi-touch screen
has a choice now of wallpaper with
parameters to change the way it looks
and i believe that user image import
will be possible in the future
something else to consider with
phantom's power even if you add the 128
multi-sample tones
of up to 88 samples each and the extra 8
000 samples to keyboard tones
that are available the startup time of
the phantom is still only 35 to 40
seconds
so good this incredible instrument has
so many new features with version 2
that it will definitely bring you brand
new levels of creativity when you're
making your music
with the phantom and don't worry there's
more to come
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you