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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.

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.

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 |