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From innovative beatmakers to passionate producers, Novation’s Circuit family has the perfect partner to help you bring your ideas to life and create showstopping performances. Get closer to your samples with Circuit Rhythm or explore new sonic horizons with Circuit Tracks’ polyphonic synth engines. Whatever your vibe, Novation’s Circuit range can help you find your groove.

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Circuit Rhythm

Put your samples in the spotlight

Perfect for making beats in the studio, or working on creative ideas wherever inspiration strikes, Circuit Rhythm takes the work out of beatmaking and pushes your music further. Record sounds, play in drum grooves, melodies, or chops, and build your beats with ultra-fast sequencing.

Stay inspired and build hard-hitting beats with eight versatile sample tracks, each with their own 32-step patterns, chainable for up to 256 steps per track. Record samples directly into Circuit Rhythm, and with a screenless workflow and a lightning-fast sequencer, you can transform your samples and make beats without complications. Bring some real heat to your live sets with a wide range of killer performance effects and give your samples new life.

With sampling at the heart Circuit Rhythm, plug in your phone, turntable or synths and record samples straight into the machine. Then, you can fine-tune samples, edit patterns with ease and build beats intuitively.

Circuit Rhythm slides perfectly into your existing studio setup with full-size five-pin MIDI in, out, and thru, sync out, and audio in. A built-in rechargeable battery and expandable storage via a microSD card slot means you can load in your favourite sounds and you never have to stop creating. Turn sick samples into killer beats with the perfect beatmaking sampler and drum machine.

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Circuit Tracks

New and Improved

As ever, we at Novation strive to bring innovative equipment to fuel your creative endeavours, and Circuit Tracks is no different. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, Circuit Tracks takes the best of Circuit’s lightning-fast, screen-less workflow, but has been upgraded with a more refined and compact design with new production features to enhance your music making in the process. Circuit Tracks was built to help you work instinctively and immediately.

Circuit Tracks brings you two refined polyphonic digital synth tracks, two MIDI tracks, and four drum tracks. Thanks to its built-in rechargeable battery and expandable storage capabilities, it’s the perfect choice for on-the-go music production. You’ll be able to create music wherever inspiration strikes you and save and recall large libraries of samples and synth patches into your instrument. Step probability and pattern mutate keep your music evolving, while 32-step patterns, sync rates and scenes let you compose complete songs.

Go further with Components

Unlock the full creative potential of Circuit Tracks and Circuit Rhythm with Novation Components. Complete with a visual overhaul and a streamlined experience, creating brand new patches and templates, loading samples and managing projects is easier than ever.

 

Functionality

Feature

Circuit

Circuit Tracks

Circuit Rhythm

Tracks

Synth Tracks

2x 6-voice polyphonic

2x 6-voice polyphonic

0

Sample Tracks

4x Drum Tracks

4x Drum Tracks

8x Flexible Sample Tracks

MIDI Tracks

0

2x 6-voice polyphonic with custom templates

0

Click Track

No

Yes

Yes

Audio Input

Audio Inputs

No

2x Mono

Stereo L/R pair

Record samples

No

No

Yes (mono-summed)

Send to Delay/Reverb/Side Chain

No

Yes

No

Send to Grid FX

No

No

Yes

Sample capabilities

Sample Playback

One-shot only

One-shot only

Slice, Chromatic, One-Shot, Gated, Looped, Reverse

Sample Controls

Tune, Decay, Distortion, EQ

Tune, Decay, Distortion, EQ

Tune, Start, Length, Slope, Distortion, High-pass Filter, Low-pass Filter, Resonance

Sample Choke Group

No

No

Yes

FX

Send FX

Delay, Reverb, Side Chain

Delay, Reverb, Side Chain

Delay, Reverb, Side Chain

Master Compressor No Yes Yes

Grid FX

No

No

Vinyl Simulation, Beat Repeat, Phaser, Gater, Reverser, Auto-Filter, and Digitiser

Note playback

Scale Mode

Yes

Yes

No

Note Repeat

No

No

Yes

Storage

Projects (per pack)

32

64

64

Sample time per pack

60 seconds

196.6 seconds

220 seconds

Samples per pack

64

64

128

Synth Presets (per pack)

64

128

N/A

Expandable storage

No

microSD for thousands of samples, patches and projects.

microSD for thousands of samples and projects.

Patterns

Pattern length

Up to 16 steps (128 when chained)

Up to 32 steps (256 when chained)

Up to 32 steps (256 when chained)

Pattern Settings

None

Sync Rate and Pattern Direction

Sync Rate and Pattern Direction

Step Probability

No

Yes

Yes

Pattern Mutate

No

Yes

Yes

Scenes

0

16 per project

16 per project

View Lock

No

Yes

Yes

I/O and hardware

MIDI I/O & Sync

3.5mm MIDI In and Out

Full Size MIDI In, Out and Thru; Sync Out

Full Size MIDI In, Out and Thru; Sync Out

Battery

6x AA

Built-in rechargeable Lithium-ion battery

Built-in rechargeable Lithium-ion battery

USB

USB-B

USB-C

USB-C