This is the pack that changed my mind on what the Circuit can sound like, and actually convinced me to upgrade from the OG to the Tracks.
The synth engine in this little box is incredible, and I wish it were easier to program! Components isn’t bad by any means, but I wish there were a more comprehensive mobile solution, like a dedicated Novation iPad app. My dream, of course, would be a hardware controller… I’d much rather see something like that than a Circuit Pro.
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Awesome I’ve just bought it.
It looks like it’s a powerful synth, but I’m just not experienced enough to get the best out of it.
Components is not a good patch editor. You’re not wrong. I gave up on it and I’m just happy there’s blokes around like Synth-Patches that has the stamina and skill to build patches like these.
Yeah, I knew the synth is super powerful, but that pack is really something else. Not my style of music, but an awesome showcase.
The discussion about the Launchpad just gave me the idea to program a bunch of basic sounds and assign all 8 knobs to useful functions. 8 knobs is a lot …
Totally.
If a patch is good, I tend to not reach for much more than 6-8 knobs for tweaks anyway. Mostly filter cut-off, both low and highpass, amp and filter decays, attacks and releases, and some wavetable movement if there’s a wavetable going, that is.
I do wonder, hmmm … if the Circuit Tracks midi tracks could work the actual synth tracks, then you’d have midi control and automation in separate lanes over the internal synths.
That’d be something, wouldn’t it? 
That’s a really good idea.
I do like the Circuit Tracks, but one thing that bothers me is of the 8 tracks 2 of them are essentially useless if you don’t have any other synths to use with it and given it’s often recommended as the best beginners groovebox (I bought one as my first hardware synth) a lot of people don’t.
If the other two tracks could be used for complex parameter sequencing which you could then switch in and out in the pattern view it would be massively powerful for performance etc.
Hey All!
I got my circuit Rhythm back over new years, and its taken me some time to get a hang of it (its my first groovebox thing). But now I’ve really gotten great enjoyment out of it. And I use it mostly, like a looper, arranger and drum machine of course together with my bass, piano and voice (together with my loop and effect pedals). Which it works great for!
However! I’m having some issues with clipping, when having audio going into the rhythm. It seems to have a much lower headroom than say my interface and mixer (or my looper for that matter). The problem is that the audio going into the Rhythm has to be set allot lower to avoid clipping and distortion, which makes the sample playback allot louder in comparison. I’ve tried adjusting the digital gain, and turning the attenuator on. Is there something I’m missing to adjust the audio coming inn? I assume its meant to be able to be played together with a more instruments, like a synth or a guitar.
My greates whish for the Rhythm in an update would be the ability to maybe change a track to a dedicated midi track, giving the ability to sequence midi notes polyphonically, and maybe even allow for delay and reverb sends to incoming audio. Panning for the two inputs would be great too.
I love using the Rhythm as a livelooper, so adding more functionality to this would be amazing, like being able to set the recording to a sequence length, where it will start and stop sample recording at the start and end of a specified track sequence. This would make it so much easier to make sure that the sample chops are perfectly in time too.
The last thing that would be lovely (which I might be the only one who wants) is to be able to switch the “sync” output to an input. But that’s only because I would love to sync my looper to the rhythm, but it only has the ability to output a sync signal. hehe. But timing starting and stopping with my hands and feet is good rhythm practice too.
Aaanyways, here is a short track I had a bunch of fun making.
Cheers!
Yes a analog sync in would be great but probably/maybe not possible due to hardware, if it is though I’d love that too.
One thing (of many!) which I absolutely love about the CR is the flexible way that projects can be used, I at first though project=song same as it is for most other sequencers. But thanks to the way they can be cued or started instantly I prefer to use them as song sections, quite wasteful perhaps, but the playflow is worth it, and with 64 projects per pack my eventual workflow will probably be 4 songs per project for writing purposes, each with 16 sections.
For live performance/jamming I’ll probably have 8 songs per project.
This is pretty much how I’ve used the projects too. I’ve loaded quite a few sparse packs into the CR, with mostly drums and some more versitale sounds. And I’ll build tracks using longer samples from my own instruments.
And I’ll have color coded rows in the projects page, where the horizontal row is basically a linear progression of a song. I find it almost easier to go back to a song and expand it that way too, rather than using patterns and scenes, as the layout looks and feels more cohesive. But that might just be because i haven’t really figured out scenes yet. Haha.
As for the sync, I’m no engineer, but I would assume it’s just a polarity switch? But you might be right.
Have you tried Scenes? Sounds like what you are doing but they are available within projects to set up and trigger different parts of a song.
How usable is the factory content?
Mine arrives tomorrow
There’s no direct jump for scenes though
Yes scenes are cool but they don’t have all the advantages of projects like grid fx states, mute states, etc.
Not my taste, but you can load others from components, I think there are about 8 in total, you need a micro SD card to hold them.
I only had a quick listen of the factory stuff and about 4 of the packs, all were “lo-fi hip hop” style, nothing wrong with that at all, just not my thing.
FWIW I will be doing some packs in the near future 
I was hoping so
Very happy you kept the CR and didn’t return it because of the build material! It’s cool to see how much you’re liking it. It’s a great instrument!
It truly is, I was saying to my wife today how it is funny how I almost never got to find out, but props to @calc for the “intervention” info and putting me straight 
Props to @doug I just happened across his scale mode hack, nice hack my dude 
Hopefully some harmonisation of features between the Tracks and Rhythm will come in future updates, some of the Tracks features (like scales) for Rhythm and the sample mode on tracks to have same macros as Rhythm (not slicing maybe) personally I think that’d be good for sales rather than detrimental.
Thanks! Glad to help. And yeah, scales on the Rhythm as a feature rather than a work around would be great.
I can’t speak to what’s missing on the Tracks. I can’t afford to get one. Just looking at if though, I think having the keyboard mode as an option would go a really long way and a add a lot to people’s experience.
@circuitghost SoundGhost also offers up some nice patches and sample packs for the Circuits:
https://soundghost.net/product/circuit-tracks-waves/
