User Guide

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Tap Tempo
If you want to match Circuit Mono Station’s tempo to another piece of music and you don’t know
its BPM, you can use Tap Tempo. Simply tap the Tap button
3
in time with the track you’re
listening to - use ¼ notes (crotchets). You need at least three taps for the tempo to change to
your manual input, and the BPM will then be calculated by averaging the last ve taps.
You can use Tap Tempo at any time, but you will need to “nudge” the Tempo control in order to
see the BPM display, which will then show the tap tempo.
Swing
By default, all steps in a pattern are equally spaced in time. At tempo of 120 BPM, a 16-step
pattern will repeat every 2 seconds, making the steps one-eighth of a second apart. Altering
the Swing parameter from its default value of 50% (the range is 20% to 80%) alters the timing
of odd-numbered steps (the off-beats); a lower swing value shortens the time between an odd
beat and the previous even beat, a higher Swing value has the opposite effect.
Swing is adjusted with the Tempo control
2
while pressing Shift
15
. The grid display changes
to show the Swing percentage value in a similar manner to the tempo display.
1
16
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Swing = 50%
1
16
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Swing = 25%
1
16
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Swing = 75%
Odd beats are advanced
Odd beats are delayed
Swing can be used to add an extra “groove” to your pattern. Note that as it is the odd steps that
are “swung”, these can be interpreted as 1/16-notes (semiquavers).
Some particularly interesting rhythmic effects can be obtained by altering
Swing with Patterns of odd-numbered lengths.