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synths into Circuit Tracks’ mix.
Track level adjustment with the Macros may be automated. If Circuit Tracks is in Record Mode,
changes to the individual track levels will be recorded to the Pattern. To delete Volume Level
automation, hold Clear
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and turn the Macro control. The Macro LED will light red to indicate that
the deletion has been completed.
Panning
You can also position each track anywhere in the stereo image (but you’ll need to be monitoring
both left and right outputs, of course). Pressing the J button
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converts the Macro controls to pan
controls for each track. The J button goes out and the K button illuminates. The default pan position
of every track is stereo-centre, indicated by the Macro LEDs showing white. Panning a track left turns
the LED increasingly bright blue; panning to the right turns it increasingly bright pink.
To quickly return a panned track to the centre of the stereo image, hold down Clear
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and turn
the Macro control clockwise. The Macro LED will light purple to indicate that the action has been
completed.
The Pan controls are automated in the same way as the Level controls. To delete Pan automation,
hold Clear and turn the Macro control anticlockwise. The Macro LED will light red to indicate that the
action has been completed.
Pressing K will return the Macros to their level control function.
Performing with Muted Tracks
Muting can be used for more creative purposes than simply silencing a track; it lets you perform in
real time over the unmuted tracks. When a track is muted, its sequencer step pads become inactive.
However, they then become available to play synth notes or chords, or drum hits, in real time.
To experiment with this, select a Project with active Drum tracks, and mute a synth track in Mixer
View. Select Note View for the muted track: the step pads will still show the sequence in progress,
but because the track is muted, no notes will be triggered by the sequencer. The step pads may now
be used to play synth notes “manually” – in real time. You can either play notes or chords already
assigned to steps by pressing the step pads, or, if the track is empty, you can assign note(s) to any of
the step pads. You now have a set of 16 pads which can be used to trigger any combination of notes
as and when you wish. Furthermore, Macro automation can be applied in Step Edit Mode to any of
the programmed step pads, which would be very difficult to do in real time.
The same principle can be used with Drum tracks, but here it will be necessary to select either Velocity
View or Gate View, as the Drum tracks do not display a separate set of sequencer steps. If you use
Gate View, you have the added advantage of access to the Drum Micro Steps.
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