Choose backup
Pick a Fantom backup from Files / USB. On iPhone the app stages a full copy so you can unplug the stick.
One backup. Silent draft. New export.
The editor is the app — no multi-backup home screen. You work against one active Fantom backup
plus a quiet XML-only draft. Scene names always come from the original FANTOM.SVD.
Edit setlists
Reorder scenes, markers, sets, and cues. Edits write draft chain XMLs as you go. Save is a checkpoint.
Export to USB
Copy the backup + your draft XMLs into a new folder. Never overwrites the source.
Songs ABC vs light cues
Show setlists are tonight’s order. Songs / ABC pools are your repertoire book.
Cues pools (e.g. Lights $CUES) mark utility scenes — lights, FX, breaks — so they are not counted or shared as songs.
Put the Settings Songs token in a setlist name (ABC or $SONGS) to make a catalog the app matches against when you
Import from text…. Put the Cues token (default $CUES) on a pool like
Lights $CUES; any of those scenes that also appear in a show setlist count as 💡 cues,
drop out of “songs only” Share, and can form Pre/Break/Post blocks in Automated Set Detection.
What you can do (iOS)
Each feature: what it is for, then the related screens. Full guide:
docs/user-manual.md.
First open on a real device: docs/user-manual-starter.md.
Quick start — first open on device
Have a Fantom backup folder on USB or in Files
(FANTOM.SVD + SCENE_CHAIN/). Open the app → Settings… set
Import / Export folders → Choose folder… →
highlight the backup → Select. Wait for the in-app copy, then you can unplug.
Tap a setlist to edit; later ⋯ → Export to USB… writes a new folder for Restore.
Backup folders & Fantom backup types
On the keyboard, MENU → UTILITY → BACKUP writes a named folder to USB
(see Roland FANTOM-06/07/08 Owner’s Manual — Backing up User Data (Backup/Restore), ~p. 34).
Check or clear INCLUDE PAD SAMPLE / INCLUDE KBD SAMPLE for a full vs small backup.
This app edits SCENE_CHAIN/ inside that folder; Export builds a new folder for RESTORE.
Open a Fantom backup
Use this the first time, or when you want a different backup. Set Import / Export folders in Settings, then Choose folder…. Tap to highlight, double-tap to open, Select to import. On iPhone the app stages a full copy so you can unplug USB.
Work from the setlist list
This is home. Tap a setlist to open it. Session ⋯ covers create, band filter, Save, Export, View original, switch backup, Undo, and Settings. Sheets close with Cancel, Back, or Close — not by dragging down.
See more about each setlist (Details)
Use Details when titles alone are not enough. Off = names only. On = project line plus ♫ songs · 💡 cues · 🎬 sets. (Inside an open setlist, Details means bank/patch brackets instead.)
Show only one band
Use Show Bands/Projects… after you define projects in Settings. Pick All or a band to narrow the list.
Find, select, and reorder setlists
Use Filter for… for name or slot. Empty shows empty slots. Edited keeps only what you touched this session. Select for multi actions. Drag ⠿ to reorder (clear text/Empty/Edited filters first).
Create, rename, copy, swap, clear, delete
Use the setlist row ⋯ (or long-press). The top line is the setlist name (not an action). Each action opens its own sheet or confirm.
Edit the songs in a setlist
Open a setlist to order the night. Drag ⠿ to reorder. Drag the transfer handle to show the scene library — portrait stacks ↑/↓; landscape is side-by-side ←/→. On Scenes, use Filter for… plus bank toggles A · B · C · D or All (four Fantom banks of 128; at least one bank stays selected). Songs has its own Filter for… / Details. Drag a scene’s ⠿ onto Songs to add (or a song’s ⠿ onto Scenes to remove).
Song actions — Info, clipboard, swaps, markers
Use song ⋯ for Cut/Copy/Paste, Info… (BPM, layers, memo, setlists), Swap Scene / Marked Block / Sets, Select by Number, and markers. Swipe is Remove only. On iPhone, scroll the menu — not every action fits on screen at once.
Share a setlist
Use Share… to send a text preview via the system share sheet. Share only song names (default on) leaves cues out.
Build a setlist from a text list
Use New Setlist… → Create from → Text… when you have a pasted list or a
.txt / .csv. Match, review, then create (undoable).
Undo…
Use Undo… to reverse changes made over multiple steps in this session — not only the last tap. Open from session or editor ⋯. Newest at the top; Undo to here jumps back; Undo all clears the stack (Redo still available until you edit again). Discard all… is different: throw the draft toward the original backup.
Export for Restore
Use Export to USB… when the show is ready. Writes a new folder only — never your source backup. On iPhone, Export shows progress (file · bytes) with Cancel. Then stick → Fantom UTILITY → RESTORE → power cycle.
Settings
Use Settings to set folders, Songs/Cues codes, automated set detection, share defaults, and bands once — then every session follows those choices.
Safety & Restore
- Never overwrites the source backup on export.
- Getting edits onto the keyboard: USB stick → UTILITY → RESTORE → power cycle (select the folder Export created).
- Prefer a backup taken immediately before restore if the keyboard may have newer scene edits.
- Fantom BACKUP can omit pad / keyboard samples; Export copies whatever was in the backup you opened. See Backup folders & Fantom backup types.
Demo sample for screenshots: Mac path
…/FANTOM/BACKUP/MyBackup/ includes slot 18 · Lights $CUES
(LIGHT OFF / WHITE / START SET / RED BREAK + FX/Pad menus).
Re-open sample / re-seed Simulator after updating that folder.