Novation Circuit - Page 49

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You can also add Macro automation to specic drum hits while the sequencer is not running
(i.e., with Circuit in Stop Mode). Because Note View for the drum tracks doesn’t include a
separate display of the step pattern as it does with the synth tracks, you will need to select
Velocity View by pressing Velocity
6
. Press the Record button
12
(it will illuminate
bright red) and select the drum hit that you want to alter the sound of. You’ll hear the currently
assigned drum sound and the pad will alternately blink the track colour (orange or green) and
red. Move the Macro control(s) for the drum track you’re working on as required; the Macro LED
will change from the track colour to red. You can keep playing the drum hit by pressing its pad
repeatedly while doing this. When you’re happy, exit Record Mode.
Because the drum sounds are always affected by the Macro control settings, you will now
nd that all the drum hits on the track (assuming there are more than one) have assumed the
revised sound. If you only want a single hit to have the revised sound, repeat the process
described above, but this time select one of the other steps with a hit, and reset the Macro
controls to give you the original sound back. Exit Record Mode. You will now nd that only the
hit you altered the sound of the rst time is different; all the other hits will assume the Macro’s
new setting when you run the sequence.
Note that automation data is recorded independently of Pattern data. This means that any
changes made to Drum Macros which are recorded as part of the Pattern will be retained even
if the drum sample is changed during the Pattern (see “Sample Flip” on page 41). You can
tweak the drum sound at a specic step and then change the sample at that step: the tweak will
still be effective.
You can delete any Macro automation data you don’t want to keep by holding down Clear
16
and moving the knob in question anticlockwise by at least 20% of its rotation – the LED below
the knob will turn red to conrm. But note this will clear the automation data for that Macro for
the whole Pattern, not just at the sequencer’s current step.