User Guide

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Tap Tempo

If you want to match Circuit’s tempo to another piece of music and you don’t know its BPM, you

can use Tap Tempo. Hold down Shift

and tap the Tempo button

in time with the track

you’re listening to. You need at least three taps for Circuit to change its tempo setting to your

manual input, and will then calculate the BPM by averaging the last ve taps.

You can use Tap Tempo at any time, but if you’re in Tempo View, you’ll see the BPM display

update itself to 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 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.

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Swing = 50%

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Swing = 25%

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Swing = 75%

Odd beats are advance

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).