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The samples played by each of the four pads is the current active sample for each drum track.
You can play the drum pads in Expanded Note View freely in real time, or record them into a pattern
if you press G Record. If Rec Quantise is enabled, Circuit Tracks will quantise the timing to place the
drum hits precisely on a pattern step; if Rec Quantise is disabled, they will be placed at one of the six
ticks between adjacent steps.
You can also use Expanded Note View while a pre-existing pattern is playing, to record additional hits.
Selecting Samples
Each of the four drum tracks in Circuit Tracks can use any one of 64 pre-loaded samples. You can
either audition and select the samples in Note View, four pages of 16 at a time, or use Preset View,
which is opened by pressing the relevant track button, then Preset
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. In Preset View for the drum
tracks, the samples are arranged as two pages of 32: they are in the same order as when accessed
through Note View. Preset View will open at the location of the active sample for each track. If Drum 1
or Drum 2 is selected, Preset View opens at Page 1, If Drum 3 or Drum 4 is selected, it opens at Page
2. Use the J and K buttons to swap pages.
The sample selected will immediately become the active sample for the selected drum track, and in
Note View, the sample pads assume the page (block of 16) that includes the sample.
Drum Patches may also be recalled using an external MIDI controller by sending MIDI CC messages
on MIDI Channel 10. Circuit Tracks must be configured to receive CC messages: this is the default
setting, but see page page 104 for full information.
The separate downloadable document Circuit Tracks Programmer’s Reference Guide contains full
details.
Sample Flip
If you hit G Record
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, you can play a selection of drum samples in real time, and Circuit Tracks
will record your performance. This feature is called Sample Flip, and you can do it either in the drum
track’s Note View, or in its Preset View (which gives you access to twice the number of samples at
once). You can do this independently for each of the four drums: this is a very powerful feature as
it overcomes the one-sample-per-track restriction and lets you use the full palette of drum samples
throughout the Pattern. It may be helpful to record a basic pattern on a different track to give a
timing reference when you do this.
You can also apply a sample flip to a step in a similar way to assigning synth notes. Press and hold the
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