Make 'Rhythm' Your 'Slave'!

video upload by Guinan

"How to use your Novation Circuit Rhythm as a 'slave' device to a Novation Circuit Tracks acting as the 'master'. Use your MIDI1 and MIDI2 tracks to sequence sampled instruments or drums on the Circuit Rhythm."

Syd and I – Milan Metro (Live at Lumen Labs) | Electronic Music Performance, 2025

video upload by Saul Stokes - Frequensea

Featuring suporting member Saul Stokes aka Frequensea with a Novation Circuit Tracks.

"Syd and I, performing live at Lumen Labs in Berkeley, August 2nd, 2025. Milan Metro should find itself on streaming platforms in the next month. One of the things I have been working with Syd on is to have her perform the song a few times before singing in the studio. This allows her to get comfortable with her voice articulations and lyric memorization prior to studio recording. Currently, I feel like Milan Metro is the most original piece of music we've done so far. A nice yin and yang of a younger life perspective, combined with my lengthy background in instrumental electronic music. I hope you enjoy.

Unfortunately, we had a second GoPro connected to the main mixer outs to record some really nice audio. The battery ran out very quickly, so we're stuck with the GoPro's internal mic. Not terrible, but could have been better.

Our first EP as well as some singles:

📀 Apple Music – / syd-and-i
🎧 Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/artist/03OJQ...
💿 Bandcamp – https://saulstokes.bandcamp.com/album...
📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/syd_and_i/p..."

Circuit Tracks, Peak & J-6 Ambient Jam

video upload by Blossom Bisquits

"Dive into a hypnotic sonic journey with 'Polyrhythmic Meditations,' an immersive ambient synth jam featuring the Novation Circuit Tracks, Novation Peak, and Roland J-6. This session explores vast soundscapes, evolving textures, and deep, resonant harmonies, crafted live with a focus on interweaving polyrhythmic patterns to transport you to a state of serene contemplation. Let the intricate and evolving rhythms and atmospheric pads wash over you, perfect for focus, relaxation, or simply getting lost in sound."

Packs, Projects, Scenes, and Patterns on Circuit Tracks and Circuit Rhythm

video upload by Novation

"In this video, Dylan combines Circuit Tracks and Circuit Rhythm to experiment with a beat, showing you how to pair our Circuit grooveboxes to work together seamlessly. He talks through packs, patterns, launching scenes and organising your projects on both our Circuits. Dylan explains everything you need to know to get creative with your Novation Circuit groovebox and how to get the Tracks and Rhythm working together in sync with each other.

Chapters:
00:00 - Using packs, projects, patterns and scenes on Circuit Tracks and Circuit Rhythm
00:57 - How to connect Circuit Tracks and Circuit Rhythm together
01:43 - Using packs to organise on Circuit Track and on Circuit Rhythm
02:46 - Using projects as sections on Circuit Tracks and on Circuit Rhythm
04:57 - Modifying projects on the fly with Circuit Tracks and Circuit Rhythm
07:06 - Using Circuit Track and Circuit Rhythm together in a DAWless setup
08:05 - Performing a track on Circuit Track and Circuit Rhythm"

https://novationmusic.com

Getting glitchy with Pattern Mutate on Circuit Tracks

video upload by Novation

"In this video, Dylan takes you inside a spontaneous session on Circuit Tracks, starting with a simple melodic phrase and building it into a full groove with drums, bass, and evolving textures. Along the way, he showcases Pattern Mutation, a creative tool for transforming loops into something fresh and expressive. It’s a hands-on look at how small ideas can grow into dynamic musical moments and be used for creating transitions, perfect for producers looking to break out of repetitive patterns and unlock new inspiration."

Chapters: 00:00 - How to use Pattern Mutate on Circuit Track
00:47 - Making a basic beat on Circuit Tracks
01:45 - Duplicating and mutating Patterns on Circuit Tracks
03:12 - Chaining patterns together on Circuit Tracks
03:48 - Mutating a melodic pattern with Circuit Tracks
05:05 - Making and mutating a bass part on Circuit Tracks
06:46 - Putting all the parts of a track together with Circuit Tracks

https://us.novationmusic.com

Novation Circuit Rhythm Editor - VST and Standalone Version

video upload by mller30161

Editor Homepage: https://circuit-midi-editor.jimdo.com

"The 'Circuit Rhythm Editor' is a VST / Standalone - Controller for the Novation "Circuit Rhythm" sampler and drum machine.

Editor Features:

It is perfect to integrate the Circuit Rhythm into your DAW.

You can control and mixing the Sessions, change and create new sounds "on the fly".- It provides a simple access to all important parameters.

The Plug-In allows you to set the hardware easily and automated the controller movement from the DAW, they can be stored in your Project.- With the X-Y-Pad any controller can be selected and controlled.

You have an overview of all 8 tracks.

The parameter can be changed on the 'Circuit Rhythm Editor', and stored on Circuit Rhythm Hardware.


The Editor are available for:

PC: As VST2 and Standalone for 32bit and VST2, VST3 and Standalone for 64bit Windows.

MAC: As VST2, VST3, AU and Standalone, compatible with MAC Intel and Silicon."

Digitakt 2 + Circuit Tracks + Novation Peak

video uploads by DJ Roommate

Playlist:

1. Digitakt 2 + Circuit Tracks + Novation Peak - progressive/chill/house

This has been my favorite setup to play live with so far. Subscribe for more electronic jams if you dig it!

Digitakt is on drum duty, Circuit is playing the bass and accent synth, Peak is playing the main chord progression.

2. Digitakt 2 and friends - house/chill jam

Another track from this batch of jams

Digitakt is on drum duty, Circuit is playing the bass and accent synth, Peak is playing the main chord progression.

3. Circuit Tracks and Friends - upbeat house jam

Digitakt 2, Circuit Tracks, and Peak coming together in a tight little setup.

Teardrop/Massive Attack (Circuit Rhythm Version)

video upload by Guinan

"This week’s track is the ever wonderful ‘Teardrop’ by Massive Attack. Time to light a few candles, run a hot bath and get ready to chill out…..

I first attempted a version of this a couple of years ago in Logic after seeing the excellent breakdown by @GyuBeats . See his video here; • MASSIVE ATTACK - Teardrop - How Was It Mad...

Try as I might I still haven’t perfected this, but I thought it would be fun to do a ‘proper’ version using the Novation Circuit Rhythm. I’ve chopped and loaded as many phrases from the accappella version of the track as I could fit in the sample memory of the Rhythm. I think the Liz Fraser vocal is what makes 'Teardrop' so special. You can find the vocal track here (not sure how ‘official’ as it claims to be though)… • Massive Attack - Teardrop Official Acapell...

Everything you hear was programmed into the Circuit Rhythm and played live without any extra effects or synths.

I hope you enjoy my recreation (and on a Circuit Rhythm for a change). Check back soon for more tunes.

More details for synth nerds.

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Create your own epic synth patches on Circuit Tracks with Components

video upload by Novation

"Discover Circuit Tracks here - https://bit.ly/_Circuit_Tracks

In this video, Dylan creates synth sounds and patchs with the Circuit Tracks using Components. This video explores just a fraction of what Circuit Track's powerful synth engine can do and the creative possibilities available within the Circuit workflow."

Chapters:
00:00 - Crafting synth sounds with Circuit Tracks
00:32 - Making a Patch in Components with Circuit Tracks
01:18 - Patch browsing and Macro layouts with Circuit Tracks
02:44 - Mapping the hardware Macro knobs on Circuit Tracks
04:25 - Create further mappings on Circuit Tracks
05:22 - Using the Patch in a tune
06:51 - Send Patch to Circuit, record a Pattern
08:17 - Final beat performance on Circuit Tracks


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Tour De France/Kraftwerk - (Circuit Tracks & Rhythm Version)

video upload by Guinan

"I was listening to the 50th Anniversary version of the album, ‘Autobahn’ by Kraftwerk and it occurred to me to have a try at one of their tracks.

By far the most danceable of theirs is the 1983 song ‘Tour De France’ with the 2003 Francois Kevorkian mix the best fit for the Circuit Tracks treatment. It also should be noted that the band were complete cycling fanatics even hosting some of their concerts in velodromes!

With the real Tour De France just about to kick off (5th July in Lille) I couldn’t think of a more suitable track, and I want to dedicate this with love to my cycling-loving father-in-law, Bernard.

Having influenced early 80’s electro music such as Afrika Bambaataa’s ‘Planet Rock’ the influences went in the other direction for this track. Hiring the famous New York electro producer Kevorkian to do the remix made for a fantastic combination. Francois was responsible for many of the greatest New York electro productions and remixes.

(a big shout out too to anyone who's here because they love the broom scene from the movie, 'Breakdance' !)

This era of Kraftwerk was notable in introducing sampling to the normally analogue instrumentation they used. For this reason, I’ve drafted in my Circuit Rhythm again in the same way as my recent version of Robert Mile’s ‘Children’. See here;

• Children/Robert Miles - (Novation Circuits... [posted here]

Everything you hear is coming from just these two machines (Circuit Tracks & Rhythm). The Tracks is programmed with the musical parts and is playing the Rhythm on two tracks. There are in addition some rhythm tracks playing on this machine to thicken out the sound. No other synths were used (apart from the sampled instruments mentioned below) and you’re hearing the straight audio direct out from the machines.

I loved the challenge of putting this together (see below for details!)
I hope you enjoy it too and check in soon for more tunes.

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Demo - Brutal Techno - Novation Circuit Tracks Pack by Yves Big City

video upload by Isotonik Studios

"This isn’t polite techno. This is teeth-grinding, chest-pounding, warehouse-breaking sound design—built specifically for the Novation Circuit.

With Brutal Techno, we push the synth engine into overdrive: distorted hoovers, snarling acid, rolling kick synths, haunting pads, and searing leads. And it’s all built around a one-finger technique—press a single note and unleash full-scale rave sequences without menu diving or finger gymnastics.

Drawing from the energy of AK Sports, Trym, and Amelie Lens, this pack captures the chaotic pulse of fast techno and rave culture—engineered for aggressive live sets and fearless sound explorers.

What’s Inside:

128 Presets – including hoover leads, fat synth kicks, acid basslines, distorted pads, and sequenced riffs
64 Samples – punchy one-shots for drums and FX to bring grit and drive to every beat
32 Demo Sessions – instant rave templates to perform or remix on the fly
One-Finger Techno – play a single note to trigger full sequences and wild patterns
Fully tagged, performance-optimized, and ready to overload your dancefloor
This is for the producers who want to destroy comfort zones. Whether you’re crafting brutal drops, relentless groove loops, or jacking live jams, Brutal Techno gives you the tools to be loud, fast, and unapologetically raw.

Not for everyone. Perfect for the right ones

Made for Novation Circuit Tracks but compatible with OG circuit.

AVAILABLE HERE: https://isotonikstudios.com/product/b...

MORE FROM YVES BIG CITY: https://isotonikstudios.com/product-c..."

Erica Synths Echolocator Demo (no talking) with Novation Circuit Tracks

video upload by Bonedo Synthesizers

0:00 Ambient Delay Verb
1:12 Dub Delays (Preset Morph)
2:47 Echolocator on Pads
3:53 Echolocator on Drums

PinkPantheress vs Underworld (Circuit Tracks Mashup Remix)

video upload by Guinan

"Time for a bonus extra upload. The remix nobody asked for! (I dropped enough hints but nobody took the bait). I couldn't resist doing a version of this song that brought the Underworld version of 'Dark&Long (Dark Train)' with PinkPantheress' 'Illegal'.

Hopefully all previous glitches with the music are sorted and you can enjoy this version. It was programmed and played on just a single Novation Circuit Tracks. If you'd like more details as to how the track was put together check out the videos for the two component parts,"

Improve your Circuit Tracks workflow with these sound automation tricks

video upload by Novation

Discover Circuit Tracks here - https://bit.ly/_Circuit_Tracks

"In our latest video, Dylan demonstrates how to tweak and automate sounds using the Circuit Tracks. He covers a variety of techniques and shares valuable tips for enhancing your music production within the Circuit workflow, helping you get more out of your setup.

Chapters:
00:00 - Tweaking and automating sounds on the Circuit Tracks
00:24 - Browsing Presets with Circuit Tracks
01:21 - Making an eight bar chord part on Circuit Tracks
02:53 - Making a two bar bass part on Circuit Tracks
04:05 - Automate to extend the bass phrase with Circuit Tracks
05:44 - Automate FX Sends on Circuit Tracks
06:34 - Final beat and performance on the Circuit Tracks"

Additional Circuit Tracks videos:


Explore Circuit Rhythm performances and tutorials too here:

Children/Robert Miles - (Novation Circuits Dream Version)

video upload by Guinan

"Huge thanks to @hansotto8563 for this suggestion. Thanks again to all subscribers for their support. I’ve always loved this track and it remains a favourite to this day.

First released in 1995 this song was originally composed by DJ Robert Miles (real name Roberto Concina) as a ‘wind-down’ track for the end of his DJ sets. Credited as starting the genre of ‘dream house’ it was conceived as a way of reducing the death toll for clubbers returning from Italian clubs and falling asleep at the wheel.

The whole track was programmed and played on just the two machines’ pictured, a Novation Circuit Tracks and Circuit Rhythm. No additional synth or effects were used and the track was recorded straight from the output of the Rhythm (which mixed in the audio input from the Tracks).

I hope you enjoy the end result and check back soon for more tunes.

More details for synth nerds;

I’ve been thinking for a while as to how to cover this. Very much of the 90’s, it used sampled instruments and this made it harder to keep this an all-Circuit track. So much of the track relies on the impact of the piano and guitar samples I needed to reproduce these convincingly. I used my Circuit Rhythm purely as an expander in this case and all the sequences are played from the Circuit Tracks.

The Circuit Rhythm is running purely as a MIDI slave device for channels 3 and 4 only. I plan to detail how to do this in another video – mainly because the title ‘Make Rhythm Your Slave’ popped into my head and seemed too good to waste!

The original piano sound was apparently played on a Kurzweil K2000 and I managed to find a sample of the same sound. The Rhythm is monophonic and the sample is not multisampled but I think (with lot’s of reverb and delay) I managed to get it sounding not too bad.

The patches are self-programmed and I had some fun putting together the thunder and rain ambience effects from free online sample libraries.

The tracks are as follows.
TRACKS
Synth 1 – M1 Organ bass-like patch
Synth 2 – phased detuned sawtooth pad
MIDI 1 – MIDI channel 3 to piano sample track on Rhythm
MIDI 2 – MIDI channel 4 to acoustic guitar sample on Rhythm
Drum 1 – bass drum, 909 sample
Drum 2 – 909 snare sample
Drum 3 – 909 hihat and closed hihat samples.
Drum 4 – ambient samples for thunder, rain etc. (from various free online sample libraries) edited via phaser effect as per original track.
RHYTHM
Track 3 (MIDI channel 3) Kurzweil K2000 sample.
Track 4 (MIDI channel 4) Kawai acoustic guitar sample.

The remaining sample tracks and sequencer on the Rhythm were not used (to reduce the complexity of the track). I based the track on the Dreams version of the song and had to simplify it somewhat to fit in the Tracks. Many of the patterns were played at quarter speed and the notes played unquantized to use micro-steps to squeeze longer squences in. Nonetheless I’ve had to simplify the arrangement but I hope I’ve captured the spirit of this classic.

Thanks once again for watching. Fire away with any questions in the comments and stay tuned"

Age Of Tron Dreadbox ARTEMIS Synthesizer and Novation Circuit Tracks Live Music

video upload by James Dyson

"Custom Preset on the Dreadbox I made as I learn the Synthesizer, sound design fun (Sci Fi Brass Pad) and learning the Circuit Tracks I made 2 Seq's and Drum Tracks."

Novation Circuit Tracks quickstart for super-beginners

video upload by Synthesaurus Rex

"The Novation Circuit Tracks is super - not only, but also for beginners. That is: experienced musicians, like guitarists or drummers, who wanna get into electronics, but also people who are totally new to the topic of making music at home. For details, you might wanna follow my synth blog: patreon.com/synthesaurus"

Discopolis 2.0/Kris Menace & Lifelike (Novation Circuit Tracks Beach Mix)

video upload by Guinan

"I'm travelling so I hope you enjoy some of the slightly different videos I'm posting. This weeks video is a reworking of a track I put out last month following a suggestion by @DerrynGrierson
I wasn't happy with audio/video on the original (see below) so this is a reworking of the same.

Kris Menace & Lifelike have released multiple versions of the track so I feel pretty justified in putting out another mix of the track! I thought however I had to come up with something new so this was re-programmed and then played live on the beach! The line out went straight into a Zoom LiveTrak L6 so everything you hear is just as it was played on the Circuit Tracks 'on the beach'.

It's harder than it looks playing live on a beach (the tide was coming in....). I missed the filter sweep in the track completely! Stay tuned to the end, if you can, to see what a beautiful place this was played at.

Till next time, stay tuned."

Discopolis/Kris Menace & Lifelike (Novation Circuit Tracks Version)
video upload by Guinan

"This week’s track is the 2005 cult club-classic, ‘Discopolis’ by Kris Menace (an alias of DJ Christoph Hoeffel) and Lifelike. Recreating this was suggested by subscriber @DerrynGrierson. Thanks for the excellent suggestion Derryn!

It’s very likely I’ve heard this but it hadn’t been something I’d really noticed. I absolutely LOVE it and it has been a pleasure listening to the (very) numerous mixes and remixes to get an idea as to how to recreate this onto the Novation Circuit Tracks.

It features a very prominent sample from the start of the Italo-disco song 'Another Life' by Kano. Incidentally this sample is also used elsewhere (e.g. by Nero) so you might recognise it. I was able to find and use the same sample and build the song around it.

Everything you hear was programmed and played on the Novation Circuit Tracks. No extra synths/effects were used in the playback and the stereo track has not been remastered or otherwise altered.

I’m trying out a different way of filming/recording these direct to camera so apologies if the video is a bit dark. Almost knocked over the mirrorball too!

I hope you enjoy this track and come back again for other future recreations. Thanks for watching."

Voodoo Ray/A Guy Called Gerald - Novation Circuit version

video upload by Guinan

"Time for the first British acid house hit and another Hacienda favourite. The Manchester act A Guy Called Gerald blew up the Manchester music scene with his 808 and 303 tour-de-force. He's still making excellent music ‪@AGuyCalledGeraldTV‬ #voodooray

Everything you hear was programmed into the Novation Circuit and played ‘live’ straight out of the headphone jack into my phone. No extra effects or outboard gear are used during playback.

The ‪@IsotonikStudios‬ sound pack RB 303 by Yves Big City got me thinking about how capable the Novation Circuit could be for a blast of acid house. I hope this attempt gets close to the flavour of the original. • DEMO - RB 303 - Novation Circuit Pack by Y... [posted here]

‪@GyuBeats‬ has done some great video breakdowns of the track and is obviously a fan. Big thanks as he helped me track down some of the original samples. • Why Does VOODOO RAY Still Sound Fresh Today?

I also found the following website which is a fantastic resource of patterns for 303-soundalikes. It just had to be called Acid Tabs….. https://acid-tabs.com/303_patterns.ph...

I hope you like the track – drop a comment if there is an 80’s or 90’s track you’d like to see a version of.

Synth nerd details;
The 808 sounds are a mix of samples from Isotonik and a pack that is sometimes free called 808 From Mars.

The vocal samples are from a surprising source of an old comedy routine from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. The ‘voodoo ray’ sample is actually cut from a snatch of Peter Cook saying 'voodoo rage'.

A key part of the track is the excellent singing of Nicola Collier. I didn’t have a singer to hand and I wasn’t going to impose my dulcet tones on the world. The ‘singing’ is therefore played on the Arturia plug-in ‘Augmented Voices’.

I hope it fills the gap for now and doesn’t detract from the overall track.

All samples are edited and positioned on drum pads then sequenced/played on the Drum 4 track of the circuit."

Voodoo Ray/A Guy Called Gerald (Circuit Tracks & Rolands Version )

video upload by Guinan

"'Say Hello To My Little Friends'…..

Something a little different again. This is a reworking of one of my earlier videos but with an 'acidic' twist. At the time there were comments wondering how it would sound with Roland synths rather than my attempts at recreating the sound using the internal synth engine.

I couldn’t resist the challenge, so the Circuit Tracks has some company in the form of a Roland T-8 and S-1 Aira. The T-8 is a drum machine based on a selection of classic Roland sounds, but it has the added bonus of a very good TB303 emulation.

The Roland S-1 on the other hand is a 4-voice recreation of the classic 80’s synth, the SH-101. An awesome synth in it's own right it's a great partner for the Tracks to use with one of the external MIDI tracks.

Both of these Roland originals were an essential part of the classic Acid House sound and the track, ‘Voodoo Ray’ so this seemed a natural Circuit Tracks project to rework. I’ll keep a separate playlist of any tracks with external gear to keep my main playlist Tracks only.

For this video I’ve copied the patterns across to the Midi 1 & 2 tracks, hooked up both of the Roland individually to the MIDI Out and Thru (setup in Advanced Setup to be individual MIDI Outs). Each of the Roland boxes are then fed into each of the Audio Inputs so they can be panned, level altered and have effects applied individually. Each of the Roland boxes are not using their own sequencers but are just being used as slave MIDI synths playing the patterns sent via MIDI from the Circuit Tracks. T-8 bass was set to MIDI Ch3 and S-1 to Ch4 to match the default channels for these tracks."

Jacking Circuit Tracks into Google Gemini AI—DAWless Chaos in Real-Time!

video upload by LucaTronico

"So… what happens when you hot-wire a Novation Circuit Tracks into Google Gemini Music AI (Lyria) over Web MIDI and tell them to play nice?

Answer: they don’t.

Instead you get a live, DAW-free roller-coaster of broken genres, AI hallucinations, surprise crashes, and the occasional moment of pure synth bliss. 🤖🎛️💥

This isn’t a 'click-and-generate' demo—the AI is running in real time, riding (and sometimes derailing) every knob twist I throw at it.

Is it techno? Vaporwave? Polka-drum-&-bass? Nobody knows. But it’s weird, it’s raw, and it’s 100 % unrepeatable."