Korg Fan Needs Help Navigating FA 06 UI for Live Performance

[wheresgrant]

I'm a 20 year Korg player and I know and understand their UI like the back of my hand. Combi's are 16 part (tone) layers and Programs are the equivilent of tones on the Rolands (single patches and parts). It's simple to setup and recall user banks for live use and physical buttons to swap in and out of Combi, Program or Sequence just makes everything amazingly simple. Now I've purchased a Fantom FA-06 and I'm dead in the water saving tones in user banks and accessing favorite patches. I play in a dance/top 40 band and I can easily use 25-30 different patches in a single gig.

Can someone simplify and recommend the easiest way to organize and recall tones for a gig. When I boot up the FA-06 why is it always somewhere in the middle of the tone spectrum (Metal Pad 188) instead of my user banks? A ridiculous amount of sounds in the FA... how do I limit the 'noize' from 2000 tones in this workstation to just the 15-20 I want to use during a show?

Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

[Niarf]

Favorites mode at the left of the screen ? Check the manual =)

[wheresgrant]

I don't have a full manual, I have the Quick Start Guide. I'm struggling navigating around between sound categories, Studio Sets and the different synth modes. My experience with JV synths was pretty easy.... Performance Mode and Part Mode. On the XP30 there were specific buttons for this. I could easily jump within categories and banks and the tap of a button. But the FA has so many sounds to navigate and so many different sounds between Supernatural and PCM (within each category) that I'm frequently lost when trying to correl a few sounds for a studio set or a Favorites bank.

[titopsoenardi]

You can set your initialize user studio setup in setting menu. For gig, i've found it quite useful to assign the pad button mode to part select. That way you can navigate to 16 sounds in no time. And you have several studio setup for each song you play.

[wheresgrant]

I read about that, and thought of that. The only problem I'll have I think is that I need the sample pads for Sample Playback. There are a lot of samples and sound effects I trigger during the show. The FA06 replaced my XP30 and SP404. So I might not be able to use the pads during Studio Set to navigate patch locations.

[Joe P]

I've found that to access single tones, the best way is to put them all in a Studio Set. You can select the tones by scrolling or part select via the pads. For my rock and blues cover band, I have one set with Piano/Rhodes/Wurli/Clav/Horns etc. that covers the bulk of the gig.

For my Doors Tribute I use several Studio Sets for splits and layers and I save the sets in the Favorite Banks. This may be fairly obvious, but to take it further you can access different Studio Sets by pressing SHIFT+FAVORITE. This brings up a different UI where it is easy to see all the Sets in each Favorite Bank without the clutter of levels, ranges etc.. It's also easy to then pick sets using the 0 - 9 buttons, and easy to navigate between Studio Sets using < & > buttons. And you don't have to memorize the Favorite # for each set because each set is displayed by name in a list.

So, my recommendation would be to save Studio Sets to Favorites and access them using SHIFT+FAVORITE.

Good luck!
Joe