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A Very Few Important Concepts. Really.

Sample Creation

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A sample is simply a digital recording of a sound. There are

three ways such a recording can get into your Fantom-X:

• You capture the sample—recording, or “sampling,” the

sound directly into the Fantom-X.

• You load the sample—from the Fantom-X’s user memory or

from a PC memory card installed in your Fantom-X.

• You import an audio file—via USB from your personal

computer.

Technically, the factory built-in PCM waveforms the Fantom-X uses as the

foundation of its patches and rhythm sets are samples, too. This booklet

isn’t concerned with these chunks of audio, though—we’re mostly talking

about samples you put into your Fantom-X.

About the Fantom-X’s Sample RAM

Whether you capture, load or import a

sample, it’s held in an area within the

Fantom-X called “sample RAM.” This is

an area of fast, fluid, temporary memory

derived from SDRAM chips, the same

kind found in many computers. It’s

called “sample RAM” because it’s where

you work with your samples.

The Fantom-X sample RAM is 32 MB (MegaBytes) in size as

shipped from the factory, a good-sized chunk of space to get

you started with sampling.

In case you’re curious, “RAM” stands for “Random Access Memory,” and

“SDRAM” stands for “Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory.”

How Much Sample RAM Do You Need?

The Fantom-X performs CD-quality sampling—using a 44.1

kHz sample rate and a 16-bit word length. This means that:

• a one-minute-long mono sample—uses up 5 MB of your

sample RAM.

• a one-minute stereo sample—uses 10 MB of sample RAM.

If you’re the type of person whose samples will be mostly short

snippets of audio lasting only a second or so, you can see that

32 MB may be fine for you.

On the other hand, if you intend to work with beat loops,

capture vocal or instrumental performances, or use other

longer samples, you’ll want to add more SDRAM memory—for

a total of up to 544 MB—as described on Page 244 in the

Fantom-X Owner’s Manual

You can see the size of each of your samples in the Sample List, as explained

later on in this booklet.

It’s a Nice Place to Visit, But A Sample Can’t Live Here

In the same way you can’t live in your

office or classroom, a sample can’t

permanently reside in sample RAM. When

you turn off the Fantom-X, it completely

clears sample RAM, starting you off with

a clean slate when you next power-on.

Obviously then, it’s absolutely critical that you put your

samples somewhere more permanent before you shut off the

Fantom-X.

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