Hi Alfred,
Congratulations on the Fantom! I have a Fantom 8 and it is a very nice match with the Genos. I am really impressed with how great the Fantom sounds- a nice complement to Genos and so many great piano, instrument and synth sounds.
The Fantom is the most advanced midi keyboard I ever had, and while it is fairly simple to operate, it can get a bit confusing since it is so powerful. From reading your posts, the first step is getting a deep understanding of how to select and assign zones. The attached link is an excellent video to help you better understand how to select and assign the internal and external zones, and will give you the reason you are hearing the Fantom when you play the Genos (eg one of the Fantom internal zones is also selected when you are playing the Genos voices).
zone video:
https://youtu.be/kQgV5t9GGfAAnother excellent video on the midi parameters is in the attached link. This will give you everything you need to know about how to program it for different midi settings. I would recommend that you watch this after the previous video.
midi settings video:
https://youtu.be/Ch8LfAn2YowEverything else you need for your set up is on the Genos in the midi settings menu. I usually use zone 7 to send NTA (note to arranger/ lower keyboard) to the Genos. So that means on the Fantom I need to have zone 7 lit in order for the Genos to read my left hand notes so it knows the chords I’m playing, and it is set to external on the Fantom (hold shift and the zone button). That also means Genos is set to ‘listen’ and receive notes on this channel for the arranger section. On Fantom you can set up a zone for any layer on Genos (lower, upper 1-2-3) as long as your Fantom out channel matches the Genos in channel.
The nice thing you have with the Fantom is you can control the Genos in a few different ways. One of my favorite approaches is to assign Upper 2 and Upper 3 to different zones on the Fantom. That makes it easy to play Upper 1 on Genos, and have different instrument sounds of Upper 2 and 3 assigned to Fantom. With the touch of a button you can turn on either and play it on the Fantom, adjust the volume, change panning or control almost anything you want that is controlled by midi. You can turn on or off the sustain pedal for either, and use the controller wheels or pitch wheel too. I like this approach since you can create a scene that can be used with multiple styles and songs for live playing (since you have 16 zones to add instruments to- a big selection to choose from).
A different approach is you could create a separate scene for each song on the Fantom, and load in the midi bank and patch change numbers for the Genos voice you wish to trigger, so it automatically selects a voice on the Genos. It’s like having 16 registrations that you can program in each scene!
Whatever you decide, once you get more comfortable with the midi programming and controls on the Fantom you will find you can do just about anything you can think of.
Hope this helps and enjoy!
Mike
