User Guide

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STORING PATTERNS
Each Circuit Mono Station Session has memory space for storing multiple Patterns per Track:
you can save sixteen Osc 1 Patterns, eight Osc 2 Patterns and eight Modulation Sequencer
Patterns within one Session.
The true potential of Circuit Mono Station begins to be realised when you start to create
interesting variations of a Pattern, save them, and then chain them together to be played out
as complete sequences of up to 256 (16 x 16) steps. Furthermore, not all the Patterns for each
Track need to be chained in the same way: you could have 32-step Osc 1 Patterns combined
with a longer sequence of Osc 2 Patterns, for example. There is no restriction on how you
combine the Patterns from different Tracks (though there is a restriction on how the Patterns for
individual Tracks are chained; this is explained in Pattern Chains” on page 52).
Saving a Pattern is effectively automatic. The currently-selected Pattern memory for the
Oscillator in use will retain the Pattern being created. If youre happy with the Pattern, you dont
have to do anything, it will be in the memory. However, each set of 32 Patterns will need to be
saved as part of the current Session if you want to use the Patterns next time you power up.
Patterns View
To see how Patterns are arranged and selected, use Patterns View, accessed by pressing
Patterns
9
. The rst time you open Patterns View in a new Session, it will probably look like
this:
Pulsing pad indicates
currently selected
Pattern for each Track
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4
13 14 15 16 5 6 7 8
Osc 1 Patterns
Osc 2 Patterns
Mod Sequence Patterns
The grid is vertically divided into three areas: the rst four columns of pads represent the
sixteen memories for Oscillator 1 Patterns, the remaining four are divided horizontally between
Oscillator 2 Patterns and Modulation Sequence Patterns. Each of the Pattern memories can
contain a 16-step pattern.
How each pad is lit indicates its status. A dimly-lit pad means that the Pattern is not currently
selected. One pad per track will be pulsing slowly between dim and bright: this is the Pattern
that was playing when Play was last stopped. Initially (i.e., when a new Session is started),
Pattern 1 in each track will be in this state with all the other memories empty (and the pads
consequently dimly lit).