Novation Circuit Tracks - Scale Selection

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Scale selection
In Scales View, the lower two rows allow selection of one of the 16 available musical scales. These
are given in the table below, which also lists the notes that each scale includes when the lowest note
in the scale is C:
Pad Scale C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B
17 Natural Minor
      
18 Major
      
19 Dorian
      
20 Phrygian
      
21 Mixolydian
      
22 Melodic Minor (ascending)
      
23 Harmonic Minor
      
24 Bebop Dorian
      
25 Blues
     
26 Minor Pentatonic
    
27 Hungarian Minor
      
28 Ukranian Dorian
      
29 Marva
      
30 Todi
      
31 Whole Tone
     
32 Chromatic
           
The scale you choose to play in will be saved when you save the Project.
You will see that when you select a different scale in Scales View, the illumination of the pads
in the upper two rows changes. If you are familiar with a piano keyboard, you will see that the
arrangement of pads simulates the layout of keys over one octave (initially starting at C), with
Row 2 representing the white notes and Row 1 the black notes. Note that Pads 1, 4, 8 and 16 are
always disabled in this view, to allow pads 2 and 3, and 5, 6 and 7 to act as the black notes. The
brightly lit pads are those that belong to the selected scale, the dim ones are the notes that don’t
belong.
When you exit Scales View by pressing Note again, the lower two rows in Note View now contain
the notes in the selected scale, over two octaves. There is one exception to this – Chromatic scale.
With this scale selected all 12 notes in the scale are available, which means that only a one-octave
keyboard is possible to accommodate them. The synth keyboard pads in Note View now have the