Roland Fantom 0/06/07/08 Music Workstation - Demo / Tutorial 13: Piano Roll Automation, Fade Changes

 

In this video we are going to show you how to use the automation controls inside the Piano Roll.

It is quite straightforward as you edit a pattern and select the button for automation. Then when you are inside the automation screen, you can select a target for automation like Volume or cutoff and then draw in the changes as a waveform. You can also use points instead of drawing lines but as you can see in the video it is much easier to see how things change when you are using lines.

In this way, if you use volume as a target and 2 zones with one zone having a piano and the other zone having an electric piano, you can fade out the piano and fade in the electric piano. All of this is possible as you automate the volume to fade out for the piano while you automate the volume to fade in for the electric piano. Of course you need to pay attention to the measures and ensure that things are in synch, but this way it is easier that for example having to use your hands to change the volume via the sliders. As the patterns are played in loops if you ensure that automation ends at the same level they are when you start you can create nice automation loops.

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