User Guide

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Duplicating Steps
Pressing Shift + Clear
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and
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enables the Duplicate function, which performs actions very
similar to “copy-and-paste” for Steps.
In Note View for any of the Tracks – including Mod Seq - you can use Duplicate to copy the
note at a step, complete with its various attributes, to a different step in the Pattern.
Duplicate is the shifted function of the Clear button
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: to copy step data from one step to
another, press and hold Shift and Clear together: the Clear button will illuminate bright green.
Press the pad in the two lower rows corresponding to the step to be copied (the ‘source’ step);
it will illuminate green. Now press the pad corresponding to the step where the data is to be
copied to (the ‘destination’ step); this will give a single red blink. All the note information in the
source step will now have been duplicated in the destination. Any pre-existing note information
in the destination step will be overwritten. Upon release, the Clear button will return to dim
blue to indicate that the duplication procedure is complete. If you want to copy the note data to
several steps, you can continue to hold the Shift and Clear buttons down, and simply repeat
the “paste” part of the operation to the other steps.
Velocity, Gate and Glide
Every step in a pattern has three further parameters that are available to you to adjust. These
are Velocity, which determines how the volume of a note is related to how hard the pad is
struck, Gate, which sets the duration of the note, and Glide, which adds a portamento effect to
a note.
Velocity
The velocity parameter measures how hard the pad is hit during Live Record, and can be
subsequently edited. What the Velocity parameter then controls will be determined by what it is
routed to in the Modulation Matrix. If it is used to control the VCA (by selecting Vel as the Matrix
source and Amp as the Matrix destination), it will be directly related to volume, and can be
scaled – as can any other Modulation Matrix routing – with the Depth control
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.
See page 82 for full details of how to use the Modulation Matrix.
In Live Record, Velocity values are assigned to each step as you play the performance pads.
Note that Velocity values are associated with the Pattern step, not with the note.
Circuit Mono Station lets you change the Velocity value of a step to any of 16 values, after
you’ve created a Pattern. This is done in Velocity View, which is selected by pressing Velocity
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, which illuminates in the colour of the currently selected Oscillator.
One step pad blinks
blue/white; this is
the step whose
Velocity value is
displayed
The three dark blue
steps have
synth notes
associated with them
This indicates a
Velocity value of 11
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Pattern step display
Velocity value display