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Starting from Scratch
If you’re already familiar with producing music using hardware, you can probably skip this section!
But if you’re a novice, you may find it useful.
Once you’ve experimented with the factory demo patterns for a while, you will probably want to
create a pattern from scratch.
Select Projects and select an empty memory slot. Now select Drum 1 in Note View. When you press
º Play you’ll see the white pad (the play cursor) progressing across the 16 Pattern steps:
PLAY
Pads 1-16: Pattern Steps
Pads 17-32: Drum samples
(One page of four)
Default drum sample
You won’t hear anything just yet.
NOTE: On Circuit Tracks, Patterns are 16 steps long by default. This can be changed to 32 steps for
any or all of the eight tracks. This topic is explained in “Step Page” at page 76.
For simplicity, the discussion in this section uses 16-step Patterns as examples. (In fact, Patterns can
have any number of steps up to 32; Pattern Length is discussed later in the User Guide.)
To make a “four-on-the-floor” kick drum, select a drum sound you like from sample slots 1 or 2 of a kit
using the two lower rows of pads: the selected pad lights brightly. Then short-press* pads 1, 5, 9 and
13 on the two upper rows as shown, and press Play:
*Many of Circuit Tracks’ buttons produce different behaviours depending on whether the button is “short-pressed” (half a
second or less) or “long-pressed”. In this case, a long press on a step pad will arm the step for a sample flip: this feature is
discussed on page 63.
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