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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
15
. Fixed Velocity
is confirmed by the
Velocity
button illuminating white while Shift is pressed.
You will now find 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, in units of steps. The Gate parameter
is not restricted to integer values, fractional values are also allowed: It may have any value
between one-sixth and 16, in increments of one-sixth of a Step, giving a total of 96 possible
values. 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 Mono Station
quantizes them to the nearest of the 96 possible values. A short stab at a performance pad will
result in a low Gate value; 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.
Circuit Mono Station 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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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
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 flash alternate white/blue: this is the step
whose Gate value is being displayed.
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