User Manual
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Recording Knob Movements
As with synth sounds, you can tweak drum sounds in real time using the eight Macro
controls
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. Circuit features Dynamic Automation, which means you can add the effect of these
tweaks to the recorded pattern by putting Circuit into Record Mode (by pressing
Record
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) while moving the knobs.
When you have entered Record Mode, the LEDs below the Macro controls initially retain the
colour and brightness they had previously, but as soon as you make an adjustment, the LED
turns red to conrm that you are now recording the knob movement.
In order for the knob movements to be replayed, you must drop out of Record Mode before
the sequence loops right round, otherwise Circuit will overwrite the automation data with that
corresponding to the new knob position. Provided you do this, you’ll hear the effect of the
Macro control being replayed when the sequence next loops round, at the point in the pattern
where you turned the control.
You can also add Macro automation to specic drum hits while the sequencer is not running
(i.e., with Circuit in Stop Mode). Because Note View for the drum tracks doesn’t include a
separate display of the step pattern as it does with the synth tracks, you will need to select
Velocity View by pressing Velocity
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. Press the Record button
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(it will illuminate
bright red) and select the drum hit that you want to alter the sound of. You’ll hear the currently
assigned drum sound and the pad will alternately blink the track colour (orange or green) and
red. Move the Macro control(s) for the drum track you’re working on as required; the Macro LED
will change from the track colour to red. You can keep playing the drum hit by pressing its pad
repeatedly while doing this. When you’re happy, exit Record Mode.
Because the drum sounds are always affected by the Macro control settings, you will now
nd that all the drum hits on the track (assuming there are more than one) have assumed the
revised sound. If you only want a single hit to have the revised sound, repeat the process
described above, but this time select one of the other steps with a hit, and reset the Macro
controls to give you the original sound back. Exit Record Mode. You will now nd that only the
hit you altered the sound of the rst time is different; all the other hits will assume the Macro’s
new setting when you run the sequence.
You can delete any Macro automation data you don’t want to keep by holding down Clear and
moving the knob in question by at least 20% of its rotation – the LED below the knob will turn
red to conrm. But note this will clear the automation data for that Macro for the whole Pattern,
not just at the sequencer’s current step.