User Guide

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Fixed Velocity
You may sometimes prefer to disable Velocity; then the notes comprising your synth sequence
will have a more “mechanical” feel to them regardless of how you hard you actually strike the
pads. Circuit has a Fixed Velocity function, which sets Velocity at a value of 96.
Fixed Velocity is enabled by pressing Velocity
6
while holding down Shift
19
. Fixed Velocity
is conrmed by the Velocity button illuminating bright white while Shift is pressed.
You will now nd that all the synth notes that you have just played have a Velocity value of 96
(12 pads lit).
Note that setting Velocity to Fixed does not alter the Velocity values of notes previously
recorded.
Gate
Gate is essentially the duration of the note at a step. The Gate value is a number from 1 to 16,
and the number represents the time – in the number of steps - for which the notes at the step
will sound.
Gate values are assigned to each note as you play the performance pads; Circuit quantizes
them to the nearest whole number of steps. A short stab at a performance pad will likely result
in a Gate value of 1; if you hold a pad down for longer, the Gate value will be higher. A Gate
value of 16 means that notes at that step will sound continuously for the entire pattern.
Although Gate values are assigned to individual notes as the synth is played, editing the Gate
value causes all the notes at a step to assume the same value: i.e., all notes at a step will then
sound for the same duration.
Circuit lets you change the Gate value of a step after you’ve created a pattern. This is done in
Gate View, which is selected by pressing Gate
6
.
One step pad blinks
blue/white; this is
the step whose Gate
value is displayed
These two steps have
synth notes
associated with them
This indicates a
Gate value of 2
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Gate value display
Pattern step display
In Gate View, the two lower rows of the grid represent the pattern steps. In the 16-step example
shown above, Steps 1 and 4 are brightly lit, indicating that these steps have notes associated
with them. One pad in the Pattern step display will ash alternate white/blue: this is the step
whose Gate value is being displayed.
The two upper rows of the grid make up a 16-segment “bargraph” meter; the number of pads
illuminated white is the Gate value for the selected step. In the example shown, the Gate value
is 2: the remainder of the Gate value display is unlit.