Novation Circuit User Manual

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SESSION SWITCHING
A basic overview of loading and saving Sessions can be found at page 18. This chapter
looks at some additional aspects surrounding the use of Sessions.
There are some rules governing how Circuit responds when you change from one Session to
another. If you’re in Stop Mode (i.e., with the sequencer not running) and change Session in
Sessions View, when you press the Play button, the new Session will always begin from Step
1 of the Pattern; if the Session comprises chained Patterns, it will begin at Step 1 of the rst
Pattern. This will be the case regardless of which step the sequencer was at when the previous
Session was stopped. The tempo of the new Session will replace that of the previous one.
There are two options of changing Sessions while in Play Mode:
1. If you simply select a new Session by pressing its pad, the current Pattern will play
through to its last step (note – only the current Pattern, not a complete chain of Patterns),
and the pad for the new Session will ash white to indicate that the next Session is being
“queued”. The new Session will then begin playing from Step 1 of its Pattern, or Step 1 of
the rst Pattern in a chain if the Session comprises a chain.
2. If you hold down Shift while selecting a new Session, the current Pattern will stop playing
and switch instantly to the new Session. The new Session will play from the same step in
the Pattern chain that the previous Session had reached. This obviously gets complicated
(and often musically interesting!) when the two Sessions either contain Patterns of
different lengths, or different numbers of Patterns making up a Pattern chain. As we
have mentioned elsewhere in this User Guide, experimentation is often the best way of
understanding how Circuit deals with this.
Clearing Sessions
Clear
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may be used in Sessions View to delete unwanted Sessions. Press and hold Clear;
it illuminates bright red and all the grid pads extinguish except that for the currently selected
Session, which shows bright white. Press this pad to delete the Session; the pad ashes rapidly
for a second or so.
Note that this procedure makes it only possible to delete the currently selected Session; this
provides a safeguard against deleting the wrong Session. Always check that a Session pad
contains the Session you want to delete by playing it before you hit Clear.
It is not possible to delete a Session if Save is disabled (the state that Circuit is shipped in from
the factory). See page 18 for details of how to enable Save.

Novation Circuit Specifications

General

Type	Groovebox
Drum Tracks	4
Power	USB or 6xAA Batteries
Synth Engines	2
Pads	32 RGB Velocity-sensitive pads
Knobs	8
Effects	Delay and Reverb
Connectivity	MIDI In/Out, USB
Included Software	Ableton Live Lite, Components
Polyphony	6-voice
Sample Memory	60 seconds
Weight	1.0 kg