User Guide

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The table below summarises the functions of each Macro control as applied to the drum tracks:

Macro Drums Function

1 1 or 3

Static pitch

2 2 or 4

3 1 or 3

Decay envelope time

4 2 or 4

5 1 or 3

Distortion

6 2 of 4

7 1 or 3

Filter

8 2 or 4

Recording a Drum Pattern

Creating a drum pattern is a slightly different procedure from creating a synth pattern. When

you’re in Note View for any of the drum tracks, just hitting the performance pads establishes

drum hits at those steps in the Pattern.

However, another difference from the synth tracks is that the Pattern must be running (press

Play) in order for you to hear the hits; you won’t hear anything in Note View if you hit the

pads with the Pattern stopped. (However, you can hear the hits in Velocity View – see “Velocity”

on page 41.)

A 16-step drum Pattern is created simply by pressing Play and hitting some pads. (You can

create longer sequences by chaining Patterns together, see “Chaining Patterns” on page 50.)

You can switch between Drums 1 and 2 and Drums 3 and 4. It’s not a bad idea to establish a

basic drum Pattern using the default drum sounds (kick, snare and two different hi-hats); once

you think you’re getting somewhere with the groove, you can experiment with different drum

sounds by going to Patch View and/or using the Macros.

The Pattern you make will constitute Pattern 1 (of 8) for the currently active Session. There

are eight Patterns for each of Circuit’s four tracks – two synths and two drums. Pattern 1 is the

default Pattern in all Sessions, and will be the one you record to and the one you’ll hear when

you hit Play.