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Duplicating Patterns
In Patterns View, the Duplicate button
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can be used to perform a simple copy-and-paste function,
letting you copy a Pattern from one memory to another. This is a very useful function, as it lets you
use an existing Pattern as the basis for another, slightly different one: it is often easier to modify an
existing Pattern to be how you want it than create a new one from scratch.
To copy a Pattern from one memory to another, hold down Duplicate (it lights green), press the pad
with the Pattern you want to copy (it lights green while you press it), and then press the pad for the
memory where you want the copy to be stored (it will light red, then, if playback is stopped, it will
turn white once you release Duplicate, indicating that this Pattern will be displayed when you switch
to a step view). You now have an identical copy of the Pattern. If you want to copy the Pattern data
to several memories, you can continue to hold the Duplicate button down, and simply repeat the
“paste” part of the operation to the other steps.
IMPORTANT:
You can copy a Pattern from one Synth or MIDI track to the other, or between a Synth track and a
MIDI track using Duplicate: you can also use it to copy a Pattern from one Drum track to another,
but you cannot copy data from a Synth or MIDI track to a Drum track, or vice-versa.
Step Page and 16/32-step Patterns
The default length of a Pattern in Circuit Tracks is 16 steps, but you can double the length to 32
steps with the Step Page button
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(legended 1-16/17-32). A Pattern length of 16 steps or fewer is
indicated by the Step Page button showing dim blue. To extend the length of the Pattern currently
being viewed beyond 16 steps, press the Step Page button: it now shows bright blue for Page 1 -
while displaying Steps 1 to 16, and orange for Page 2 - while displaying Steps 17 to 32.
This feature lets you create more interesting and varied loops within the scope of a single Pattern.
If some tracks are 16 steps long and some 32 steps long, the 16-step Patterns will repeat after Step
16, while the 32-step Patterns will continue for Steps 17 to 32, so you will hear two repetitions of the
shorter tracks for every one of the longer.
Pressing Step Page (1-16/17-32) while a 32-step Pattern is playing changes the display to the other
page but does not interrupt the Pattern. You can quickly set a Pattern length back to the default of
16 steps by holding down Clear and pressing the Step Page button: the Pattern will now revert to 16
steps in length. Notes/hits assigned to the all 32 steps are preserved, though you will only hear those
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