Roland Fantom Record WITHOUT metronome!

[isabel95]

Can anyone tell me how to listen to the microphone in the Roland while recording, but not record the sound?

I could have sworm when I tested it yesterday I could hear it as I played but it wasn't recorded. I'm using the RH-10 directly cabled to the Fantom.

Today I couldn't do it!

Is it possible? (I find it hard to maintain a constant beat by following a flashing light! (I have to record a bunch of songs for an exercise class).

TIA.

Isabel

That was supposed to be METRONOME...not microphone! Arghhhhhhh!

Can anyone tell me how to listen to the microphone in the Roland while recording, but not record the sound?

I could have sworm when I tested it yesterday I could hear it as I played but it wasn't recorded. I'm using the RH-10 directly cabled to the Fantom.

Today I couldn't do it!

Is it possible? (I find it hard to maintain a constant beat by following a flashing light! (I have to record a bunch of songs for an exercise class).

TIA.

Isabel

[Archivist]

Hi Isabel,

Let me see if I can understand this. You want to use the audio metronome on your keyboard, record the music that you play, but not have the metronome sound in the background. Is that right?

Do a test with your recorder. Plug your headphones into the recorder and get the metronome going while you record. Can you hear the metronome? If not, then you will have music without beats. If you can hear the metronome through the headphones (plugges into the recorder), then you are out of luck.

Hope this helps.

[Artstar]

Can anyone tell me how to listen to the microphone in the Roland while recording, but not record the sound?

Separating the sounds should be simply a case of throwing the metronome in one channel and the actual keyboard material in another channel. Since you have a stereo recorder, you're halfway there!

Now the one thing I'll assume here is that you are referring strictly to the Fantom model and not a Fantom-S or X series and whatnot.

I've looked up the user manual for it and have noticed that you can specify which output the patches come from (1 to 4) but it doesn't mention anything about the Metronome's features other than those during the recording/playback. BUT, from I've read in the manual about the output assignment for the patches, you'll need to do the following (in theory of course!):

1) Go to your System Edit menu, select the General tab and change the Mix/Parallel setting to Parallel (don't forget to save the settings!) [ref: User manual pg 179]

2) Whether you use Patch Output Assignment or Tone Output Assignment is entirely up to you since I have no idea what sounds you are using for the recording. Nevertheless, what you would need to do is to direct your sounds out to channels 3 and 4. [ref: User manual pg 168]

The reason why I've left 1 and 2 out of the picture is because I have a feeling (and this is purely assumption since there's nothing in the manual about how the metronome functions) that the metronome is probably mixed in with everything. If it's only directed to your keyboard's headphones output and NOT out of the MIX A or MIX B outputs, then the problem is already solved thanks to Roland. If that is the case, then just leave your Mix/Parallel setting to Mix, plug your headphones into the Roland's headphone output, then using a cable that has a 3.5mm (1/8") stereo plug on one end for the MD and a couple of 6.5mm (1/4") mono plugs on the other end.

I would imagine that one of these is the solution but since I'm a drummer and have nothing to do with keyboards, I'm only as good as the user manual I got from the Roland site. Let me know how it goes though! I'm curious.