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SESSION SWITCHING
A basic overview of loading and saving Sessions can be found at page 22. This chapter
looks at some additional aspects surrounding the use of Sessions.
There are some rules governing how Circuit Mono Station responds when you change from one
Session to another. If you’re in Stop Mode (i.e., with the sequencer not running) and change
Session in
Sessions View
, when you press the
Play
button, the new Session will always begin
from Step 1 of the Pattern; if the Session comprises chained Patterns, it will begin at Step 1 of
the first Pattern. This will be the case regardless of which step the sequencer was at when the
previous Session was stopped. The tempo of the new Session will replace that of the previous
one.
There are two options of changing Sessions while in Play Mode:
1. If you simply select a new Session by pressing its pad, the current Pattern will play
through to its last step (note – only the current Pattern, not a complete chain of Patterns),
and the pad for the new Session will flash blue/white to indicate that the next Session is
“cued”. The new Session will then begin playing from Step 1 of its Pattern, or Step 1 of
the first Pattern in a chain if the Session comprises a chain.
2. If you hold down
Shift
while selecting a new Session, the current Pattern will stop playing
on the next step and switch immediately to the new Session. The new Session will play
from the same step in the Pattern chain that the previous Session had reached. This
obviously gets complicated (and often musically interesting!) when the two Sessions
either contain Patterns of different lengths, or different numbers of Patterns making up a
Pattern chain. As we have mentioned elsewhere in this User Guide, experimentation is
often the best way of understanding how Circuit Mono Station deals with this.
Clearing Sessions
Clear
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may be used in
Sessions View
to delete unwanted Sessions. Select the Session to
be deleted, then press and hold
Clear
; it illuminates bright red and all the grid pads extinguish
except that for the selected Session, which illuminates bright white. Press this pad to delete the
Session; the pad flashes rapidly for a second or so.
Note that this procedure makes it possible to only delete the currently selected Session; this
provides a safeguard against deleting the wrong Session. Always check that a Session pad
contains the Session you want to delete by playing it before you hit
Clear
.
Note that disabling Save also disables the Clear function, and therefore it is not possible to
delete a Session if Save is disabled (the state that Circuit is shipped in from the factory). See
page 22 for details of how to enable Save.
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