Fantasma

• Thirteen engines include AMBI for sea, rain, fire and vinyl beds and BELL for soft two-operator FM bells.
• SEQ > AMBIENT builds a whole ambient piece: OCT+ picks sounds, a key and a scale and starts the Pad, bells and noise.
• The sequencer holds 64 steps per track with chords, ties, accent, slide, per-step chance, velocity and ratchets, plus live loop recording with overdub.
• Four parts named PAD, LEAD, ECHOES and NOISE each carry their own colour, engines and warm presets.
• OMNI turns the keys into an Omnichord: black keys hold chords, white keys strum, ENV makes it minor and LFO adds the seventh.
• On Echoes the bells play themselves from four drifting loops, and the keys choose which notes they draw from.
• AMBI reverb stretches tails from 7 seconds up to about 90 seconds, next to delay, chorus, insert effects and the SLICER.
• Store sounds in 32 user preset slots and four projects, and the FM-1 starts again with the music you left.

Its modes

HOME

Watch the oscilloscope or the four tracks and reach the selected part's four main knobs.

MIXER

Tap HOME again for the mix of the four parts.

CLOCK

Set the BPM, the swing and the clock source.

STEP

Write the 64 steps in the piano roll or the drum grid and lock parameters on a held step.

DETAIL

Set the cursor step's chance, ratchet, nudge and velocity on the four knobs, drawn as lanes.

AUTOMATION

Work through one list of the track's step events, locks and automation to change, add or delete them.

AMBIENT

Press OCT+ to draw a new Pad, Echoes and Noise in one key and scale, OCT- to stop them.

SONG

Chain up to 16 sections, each naming the project slot every track plays and its repeats.

GEN

Set the Pad's generator: DENS, BARS, CHORDS and SEED.

CHORD

Pick the chord keys, including OMNI and OMNI H, the voicing, and the Pad's DENS and BARS.