In this video, I'm going to talk about the Sequencer built into FANTOM.
The sequencer has some classic ways of sequencing also it has some brand-new ways as well.
It has the TR-REC Mode which is the same type of sequencing
that was built into the classic drum machines like the TR-808 and the 909 etc.
Then you have Real-Time Recording where you play what you want on the keyboard,
quantize you and correct your notes as it's going in and then edit your notes on the piano roll editing system
that's built in to FANTOM and you can see beautifully on the graphic display what's going on.
and then finally I'm going to take you through the new Clip based sequencer built into FANTOM,
where you can actually have different patterns and different loops playing different instruments.
So let's get started and have a look at how we can put this all together.
Okay, so let's make our own pattern using the different types of sequencing built into FANTOM,
starting off with TR-REC.
So I've selected a drum kit on Track 8 and I'm going to play a kick drum,
place it across the bar and hit 'Play'.... there we go.
So I can hit the snare drum now...
and place it on beats 2 and 4.
Now that loop is playing just 1 bar,
around and around.
Select an Electric Piano sound... there we go.
So if I go into 'Record',
I get the window up that says REC Standby and it gives me the different parameters to choose like
Quantizing, my Loop Length... all of that sort of thing.
So if I hit 'Start',
there we go, so we have an Electric Piano looping around four bars.
Now let me find that bass sound, I think it was on Channel Seven,
and I can work out what I want to do while it is still cycling.
Okay, so I hit 'Record' and away we go...
There we go.
So now, I have a pattern for the Drums, I have a pattern for the Bass and I have a pattern for the Electric Piano.
If I want to try something different for the Electric Piano... I can.
So I'll select the Electric Piano,
and I'll go into 'Record'
and it selects new there, so if I hit 'Start'.
So we have a new pattern.
No the cool thing is is that I can swap backwards and forwards and see what I've
done and see what I like.
So now we're back to the original pattern, and check that out.
Let's go to TR-REC Mode.
I have 'Drums' selected, let's put down some hi-hat.
Simple as that, there you have it.
Okay so we've made our different patterns; Electric Piano, Bass, Drums and variations of those patterns.
So we can play them individually by pressing the 'Clip' icon
and it will play that loop back or we can play the combination of patterns
that are on the row by pressing the 'Row' icon.
There we have that playing back, and if I press 'Row B', it will play that combination of patterns back.
Now you can group these patterns together as I've just played them
to chain them all together to create your song.
And it's as simple this, I'll hit 'Grouping',
'Set', 'Group 1'.
So now I can go to 'Row A',
'Grouping', I'll go down to 'Group 2', 'Set'.
And that's set to 'Group 2'.
You can also do a combination of patterns from different rows
which is really cool if you want to try different variations.
So now we go to 'Group",
and we'll set
each group to four bars because they go for four bars.
But the option here is to obviously is that you can make these four bars, two bars or one bar,
if it's just a turnaround in your song or something like that. So you can still use that pattern but cut it down.
So let's go to make a 'Song', and we go 'Add/Replace', so I'll select the first one,
add two versions of that, go down to the second one and add two versions of that...
and then hit 'Song'.
And you can see it on screen, we've got our groups
lined up in a row ready to play into each other.
So if I hit 'Play'...
and I can jam away to my heart's content over the top.