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Grid FX
Circuit Rhythm’s Grid FX let you rapidly add a range of additional audio effects from a dedicated set
of pads: it’s a great way of adding variations to your patterns in live performance.
Grid FX are accessed in
Grid FX View
, which is the secondary view of the Mixer button
11
. Open by
holding Shift and pressing Mixer , or press Mixer a second time if already in
Mixer View
to toggle the
View. The Macro controls remain active as the Mixer’s track level controls and the top row of the grid
is also unchanged from
Mixer View
, continuing to be the Mute buttons for each track. The two lower
rows (Pads 17 to 32) are available as Grid FX performance pads. By default, the Grid FX on Circuit
Rhythm are:
SLOT EFFECT
1 Beat Repeat, 1/4 rate
2 Beat Repeat, 1/8 rate
3 Beat Repeat, 1/16 rate
4 Beat Repeat, 1/32 rate
5 Beat Repeat, 1/8T rate
6 Beat Repeat, 1/16T rate
7 Reverser, 1/4 rate
8 Reverser, 1/16 rate
9 Gater, 1/4 rate
10 Gater, 1/8 rate
11 Gater, 1/16 rate
12 Gater, 1/32 rate
13 Phaser, light
14 Phaser, heavy
15 Vinyl, light
16 Vinyl, heavy
Grid FX may be configured using Novation Components. In Components you may assign each effect
to any of 16 slots. Seven different effect types are available, each with its own set of parameters
to explore. You are able to use multiple versions of the same effect with different parameters on
different pads. The set of Grid FX is saved with each Pack (see
page 83 ) and any Project within that
Pack can access the Grid FX configurations that were saved with the Pack.
With a set of Grid FX loaded, pressing a pad that has an effect loaded to it triggers the effect, which
remains active until the pad is released. You can press multiple Grid FX pads to trigger several effects
at once, but if you have variants of the same effect on multiple pads (i.e., with different parameters),
only the last pressed will be active. If you then release the pad while another pad for a variant of the
same effect is being held down, the earlier one will take over.