User Guide

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The currently-selected Patch will be applicable to the whole of the current Session: you can’t
use different Patches for different Patterns in the same Session. However, Circuit Mono
Station’s extensive range of synth parameters should render this irrelevant in most cases.
Once you’ve made changes to one of the factory Patches, or created a new one from the initial
Patch, you can save the result in one of the memory locations. In doing this, you will need to
overwrite one of the factory Patches, so choose one you’re not likely to need. In any event, the
factory Patches can be easily reinstated using Novation Components. Full details about saving
Patches and using Novation Components can be found later in this Guide.
Patch Preview
Patch Preview is a feature available in rmware version v1.1 onwards.
Patch Preview lets you audition a Patch while in Patch View, making Patch selection very
simple. You don’t have to do anything: you will automatically hear the Patch as you select it.
If you don’t want the Patch to sound, hold down Shift
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while pressing the grid pad: this will
simply select the Patch as normal.
Initial Patch
You may sometimes want a very basic sound to work with. To meet this need, we’ve provided
an Initial Patch (referred to elsewhere as “Init Patch”), which you can load quickly any time:
you can tweak and add to until it’s what you’re after. To load Init Patch, open Patch View, hold
Clear
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down and press any grid pad. This will temporarily overwrite Init Patch into that Patch
memory, but the factory Patch will still be there next time you power-up. You can also* load Init
Patch by pressing Shift
15
and Patches
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together.
Init Patch isn’t very interesting; it’s intended as a “starting point” from which a more complex
sound can be created. See “Initial Patch Parameters” on page 91 for a list of synth
parameters for Init Patch. The initial sound for both Oscillators is a sawtooth waveform in the
8’ pitch range with a medium release time. Init Patch is actually a good Patch to use to explore
how the synth controls work, simply because it is so basic. The controls in the synth section
are discussed in full detail elsewhere in the User Guide, but you can get an idea of the effect of
each for now by tweaking and listening!
* on rmware versions 1.1 or later.