Novation Circuit Tracks - Patterns

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Patterns
Each Project in Circuit Tracks has memory space for eight separate Patterns per track, so you can
create eight Patterns for each synth, eight Patterns for each drum and eight Patterns for each of two
external MIDI instruments within a project.
The true potential of Circuit Tracks begins to be realised when you start to create interesting
variations of a Pattern, save them, and then segue them together to be played out as a complete
chain of up to 256 (8 x 32) steps. Furthermore, not all the Patterns for each track need to be chained
in the same way: you could have 64-step drum patterns for each drum track combined with a longer
sequence of bass and/or synth lines, for example. There is no restriction on how you combine the
Patterns from different tracks (though there is a restriction on how the Patterns for individual tracks
are chained; this is explained in page 77).
Patterns View
To arrange and organise your Patterns, use Patterns View, accessed by pressing Patterns
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. The first
time you open Patterns View in a new Project, it will look like this:
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
3
3 3 3 3 3 3 3
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Pattern 1 for each
track pulses dim/bright
(at a rate proportional
to current tempo)
Synth 1 Drum 4Drum 3Drum 2Drum 1Synth 2 MIDI 1 MIDI 2
Page 1 (of 2) shown; Page 2 selects
Patterns 5 to 8 of each track
Patterns View has two pages, selected by the J and K buttons
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. The pages are identical and the
Pattern memories arranged vertically; on Page 1 the pads select Patterns 1 to 4 for each track, on
Page 2 they select Patterns 5 to 8.
How each pad is lit indicates its status. A dim pad means that the Pattern is not currently selected to