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SEQUENTIX MUSIC SYSTEMS 
Ltd. 
 
CIRKLON SEQUENCER 
 
OPERATION MANUAL 
 
V1.11 
© 2015 

Summary of Contents for CIRKLON

Page 1: ...SEQUENTIX MUSIC SYSTEMS Ltd CIRKLON SEQUENCER OPERATION MANUAL V1 11 2015...

Page 2: ...Sequentix Music Systems Cirklon Sequencer User Manual 1 2...

Page 3: ...trument 2 12 Creating and Assigning a Pattern 2 13 Fill Patterns 2 15 3 Pattern Edit 3 1 What s in a P3 Pattern 3 2 Editing Pattern Values 3 3 Editing Multiple Steps 3 6 Gang 3 6 Slope Edit 3 9 Patter...

Page 4: ...ne Loops 4 8 Recall Copy To Workscene 4 9 Deleting A Scene 4 9 Change View Scene Select View 4 10 Editing a Saved Scene 4 12 Pattern Saved Status 4 13 5 Creating Another Song 5 1 6 Play Mode Menu 6 3...

Page 5: ...k Note Number Edits 10 8 Bar Length 10 8 Last Step 10 9 View and Signature Timebase 10 10 Changing the Signature Timebase 10 11 GANGing Notes in CK Edit 10 12 GANGing by Step or Row 10 13 Clearing the...

Page 6: ...r Events 13 14 What Is An Accumulator 13 14 Putting An Accumulator To Work 13 15 Relative Accumulation 13 17 Accumulator Configuration 13 18 Auxiliary Value Scaling No More 13 22 The Accumulator Event...

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Page 8: ...Sequentix Music Systems Cirklon Sequencer User Manual 1 8 Cirklon Sequencer front panel...

Page 9: ...coders rotate continuously and have no marker positions They are used to make relative changes to numeric values and to scroll and select in lists All encoders have a centre push action so they can be...

Page 10: ...uration settings can be saved to and loaded from internal flash storage or a standard FAT format SD or MMC card in the rear panel slot The entire contents of memory can also be saved as a single SYX f...

Page 11: ...finitions describe the real instruments which Cirklon is to control most importantly the MIDI port and channel to which the instrument is connected The instrument definitions also include some options...

Page 12: ...ring scene 1 In scene 2 tracks 1 and 2 continue to play the same patterns they were assigned during scene 1 Note that the scenes only tell the tracks which patterns to play the patterns themselves are...

Page 13: ...g There are three choices auto scenes advance only while on the SONG page song scenes always advance except in pattern edit work scenes must be recalled or advanced manually In order to get to the sta...

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Page 15: ...the panel When you first power on a new Cirklon you should see the SONG page like this The LED in the SONG key will be lit to show you are on the SONG page Note In the event that Cirklon s memory has...

Page 16: ...key will switch to the TRACK page which should look like this The TRACK page shows information for the current edit track the single track that is active for pattern selection editing and real time re...

Page 17: ...igurable to 16 32 48 or 64 To change the number of tracks see section 6 Play Mode Menu User Configuration Since there are only 16 track keys and encoders if the number of tracks is set to 32 or more t...

Page 18: ...g will play so the key LED will be lit at half brightness It is possible to arm a muted track so that it will become active at the next global bar loop Do this by holding the SHIFT key as you press th...

Page 19: ...see that the selection highlight no longer covers the fractional part of the tempo By default tempo is adjusted in steps of 1 BPM Turn the VALUE encoder and you should see the value change It is poss...

Page 20: ...a stored tempo the label SONG will appear below the value You can remove the stored value by pressing the DELETE key while the tempo value is active for edit When the song is later recalled the tempo...

Page 21: ...DELETE to delete the character before the cursor Hold the SHIFT key to enter upper case letters Pressing the ROW encoder toggles between letters and numbers the visual aid will switch accordingly You...

Page 22: ...ttern selection labelled FILL the track number or name labelled TRACK the current instrument assignment labelled INSTRUMENT Remember the values shown here are for the current edit track in this exampl...

Page 23: ...he same way as for the song name Once a name has been entered the rest of the instrument definition values will be accessible Use the VALUE encoder to move the highlight selection between the fields t...

Page 24: ...ines or percussion modules where specific sounds are mapped to each note number The No Edtrk Thru option disables automatic soft thru of incoming MIDI notes to the instrument even if it is assigned to...

Page 25: ...or the new track Then choose the create new option once more If you wish to edit the settings for a previously created instrument access the instrument list as normal scroll to the instrument you wish...

Page 26: ...can delete it by highlighting the instrument in the selection list then pressing the DELETE key A two step confirmation page will appear to make sure you don t do this by accident Also if the instrum...

Page 27: ...created The first is the P3 pattern which is an enhanced version of the patterns found on the Sequentix P3 Sequencer The P3 was intended to allow pattern creation in a similar fashion to analogue ste...

Page 28: ...ou edit a saved pattern an edit copy of the pattern is made This means you can easily undo any changes since the point of saving by recalling the saved version Or you can save the edited pattern as a...

Page 29: ...l pattern assigned Fills will trigger continuously if you hold the FILL key There are options to control how each track behaves during a fill in and when the fill in should finish These options are se...

Page 30: ...patterns play until the end of the next global bar scene fill patterns play for the rest of the current scene Change the release option using the VALUE encoder Note that in pattern edit the FILL key...

Page 31: ...the edit track will be edited instead As a shortcut to create a pattern if you press the PATTERN key on a track with no pattern assigned a new P3 pattern will be created and assigned as you enter pat...

Page 32: ...lumns of the matrix For each step there are a number of different values There are numeric values for note velocity length delay and four auxes labelled A to D There are status or flag on off values f...

Page 33: ...il just after the start of the next step on off skip Skip over this step to the next un skipped step on off Note that the length value can be longer than a single step period Assuming that the tie fla...

Page 34: ...row value you wish to edit turn the ROW encoder In step view you will see this moves the selection highlight through the different values Normally the step keys are assigned to the gate flags These c...

Page 35: ...ery step in the current bar Press the ROW encoder or the PATTERN key to switch to the row view Pressing ROW once more will switch back to the step view In the row view the 16 bars for note velocity le...

Page 36: ...ng SHIFT as you turn an encoder to edit the length value The value will appear as hold in step view and a full size bar with a value of 00 in the row view Turn the step encoder without the shift key t...

Page 37: ...To turn off gang mode press the GANG key again The GANG LED will go off as will the green step encoder LEDs restoring the single red LED on the current step There are various ways to change the gang s...

Page 38: ...Sequentix Music Systems Cirklon Sequencer User Manual 3 8 Try it with other patterns Note that holding GANG and pressing two adjacent steps will gang every step...

Page 39: ...en adjust the step encoder at the other end of the range This is best done in row view so you can easily see the effect For example here is a pattern with varying velocity values If you were to hold t...

Page 40: ...e in larger increments Indeed both the first and last encoders can be held in and turned simultaneously for rapid adjustment of slopes Pattern Level Values We ll take a break from editing pattern step...

Page 41: ...verse B The pattern will play in reverse starting from the last step and looping back to the last step after step 1 alternate The pattern will play in forward then reverse B directions as described ab...

Page 42: ...division of the tempo The available timebase values are shown below 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 2T 4T 8T 16T 32T 64T The default timebase is 16 The numbers relate to the equivalent note length of one step For ex...

Page 43: ...can be up to sixteen bars in length a maximum of 256 steps To adjust the bar length of a pattern hold the LAST key as you turn the BAR encoder New bars will be added to the end of the pattern and the...

Page 44: ...pear for a 4 bar pattern Note that the ROW encoder LED which was red in step edit has turned off The BAR encoder LED will be green unless bar follow is active in which case it will remain red The step...

Page 45: ...match the source bar Bar Extend and Copy You can simultaneously increase the bar length of a pattern and copy the current bar into all new bars added using the extend and copy function This operation...

Page 46: ...It is possible to set a bar loop within a P3 pattern Any bars before the start of the loop will play only once when the pattern starts to play Once in the loop section the pattern will return to the...

Page 47: ...how Press the first step of the section to be copied For example if you press step 1 of the first bar in the pattern the top line will now show Then press the last step of the section to be copied Not...

Page 48: ...ues delay only the delay values flags only the gate tie skip and X flags aux A only the aux A values and flags aux B only the aux B values and flags aux C only the aux C values and flags aux D only th...

Page 49: ...n each playing step Sculpt REL the position of knob A will adjust the stored value by a relative amount This can be a positive or negative offset with zero effect at the mid position of the knob If yo...

Page 50: ...oder While holding it in turn it one step in either direction This gesture will bring up a selection list on the right of the display For a row currently assigned to a MIDI CC the list will look like...

Page 51: ...in a later section To send other types of MIDI message scroll down and select the MIDI Send group Pressing ROW will take you back to the first level list for the new group In the MIDI Send group the o...

Page 52: ...nu is active a number of options appear along the bottom of the display The step encoders under each of these options will light red as a visual cue that the menu is active The encoder below each opti...

Page 53: ...lows you to manually reset pattern playback to the first step of the bar Apply FTS This option permanently applies the current force to scale setting to the notes of the pattern Force To Scale is a sc...

Page 54: ...ond of level of undo which allows you to reverse any changes made since the point at which the pattern was saved A newly created pattern will be unsaved In this case the save menu will only show the c...

Page 55: ...Sequentix Music Systems Cirklon Sequencer User Manual 3 25 since you entered pattern edit but it will restore the saved version of the pattern if no changes had been made...

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Page 57: ...ese values just as on the song page The top line of the display shows the scene name In this case we are looking at the workscene The workscene is a temporary holding area for the values and pattern a...

Page 58: ...ly work with patterns of 4 8 16 bars etc you can set this value to your preferred length to save the need to edit the bar length of each new pattern manually Song Advance This option controls whether...

Page 59: ...explain the effect of FTS let s say you have a pattern with 12 notes in a rising chromatic scale Step 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Note C C D D E F F G G A A B With FTS set to a root note of C and the M...

Page 60: ...Saving a SCENE Whenever you create a new song you will start in the workscene Once you have created some patterns for the first section of your song the workscene can be saved to a stored scene To do...

Page 61: ...y provides a visual indication of the current scene length and the playing bar position in the scene The single bar indicator second from bottom shows the length and current position of the pattern as...

Page 62: ...three possible settings OFF mute settings are always recalled Next for the next scene to be recalled the current mute status will be preserved then mute hold will revert to OFF LOCK for all scenes rec...

Page 63: ...he right of the scene name shows the length of the scene except for the scene currently playing For the current scene the value counts down to show how many bars will play before the scene loops or ad...

Page 64: ...ocation for the selected scene An extra entry for start of song allows you to move a scene to the very start of the song In this example Scene 1 has been selected for moving pressing VALUE ENTER will...

Page 65: ...lay mode while you are working on a scene that you hadn t saved Recall workscene will restore the workscene so you can continue to edit or save it Copy to workscene copies all the pattern assignments...

Page 66: ...ption is used to switch between the two views Your choice of view is stored permanently An example of how Cirklon might look in scene select is shown below This example song has a total of 10 scenes n...

Page 67: ...asterisk will appear before that scene s name You can also scroll the highlight selection through the scenes using VALUE and select the next scene by pressing ENTER If there are more than 16 scenes i...

Page 68: ...e cases for example where you are still working on the structure of a song making changes to various scene values you may find it easier to have changes to scenes save automatically To enable this you...

Page 69: ...aved pattern which has been edited the scene save process will present you with the following options You can save the edits to the original version of the pattern thus affecting all scenes that use t...

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Page 71: ...all any other song from the list You may also change the position of any song in the list by pressing encoder 7 under move song As a short cut for song selection you can advance to the next SONG in th...

Page 72: ...Sequentix Music Systems Cirklon Sequencer User Manual 5 2 The import instruments option is found on the play mode menu as described in the following section...

Page 73: ...his option resets to OFF at power on Edit Track Thru Over ride This option allows you to temporarily disable the soft thru transmission of notes from a master keyboard on the current edit track While...

Page 74: ...change message has been sent to an instrument which has then been manually changed to a different patch The stored program change message will be re sent after a MIDI reset is performed Card Sysex Th...

Page 75: ...n gives access to a number of preference options Scroll down the list using the VALUE encoder and press it to toggle each setting The list extends off the bottom of the display but is shown here in fu...

Page 76: ...is behaviour is not desired for example during live performance select main ptrn on trk chg if you have selected the fill pattern field switching to another track will return the track page selection...

Page 77: ...tracks are enabled the track keys and encoders will switch between banks of 16 tracks as described in section 2 Note that lowering this value may affect playback of existing songs which use track numb...

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Page 79: ...ru behaviour and selectively enable real time recording for each IN port and to set the MIDI clock and MTC transmission options for each OUT port All options are edited using the encoders below the di...

Page 80: ...own here represents a port number when setting the option The text nn is as it appears and shows that messages remain on their original channel This option may be used to re route incoming messages fr...

Page 81: ...o only MIDI clock tempo ticks are sent without START or STOP messages This is useful for devices such as effects processors with a MIDI clock sync function A further three options rsyn1 rsyn2 and rsyn...

Page 82: ...s for rsyn1 MIDI Clock Reception There is no setting to enable MIDI clock reception for a MIDI input port as it is handled automatically If Cirklon is stopped and a MIDI clock START message is receive...

Page 83: ...I ports CVIO and drum trigger outputs in increments of 0 25ms up to a limit of 64ms Encoder 7 is used to adjust the delay time When the port setting is set to all a global delay value will be applied...

Page 84: ...MIDI time code where it is enabled for one or more of the MIDI output ports All ports must use the same frame rate The frame rate setting is included in the MTC messages so incoming frame rate can be...

Page 85: ...alues or a variable combination of all three You can think of the CVIO as a MIDI to CV convertor built into Cirklon without the bandwidth limit of a serial MIDI connection The drum trigger or drum mux...

Page 86: ...ssigned to a track and a pattern playing MIDI messages will now be sent to the CVIO on channel 1 The next step is to configure the CV outputs to respond to those messages This is done from the CVIO Co...

Page 87: ...e most recent note will take priority If the new note is released while a previous note is still held the CV output will return to the previous note CV The gate setting controls how the gate output be...

Page 88: ...short for octave 10 This represents the absolute maximum range of CV output possible 10 and a half octaves giving just over 10 5 volts for a 1 volt octave synth The lower note limit for the CV output...

Page 89: ...erence The CV output by each port is calculated as Vout CV Vscale 10000 Offset For a Volts per octave synth the Vscale value alters the octave spacing and the Offset value gives an absolute change in...

Page 90: ...convertor to give the current output voltage encoder 8 press to play a high C reference note two octaves above the low note Repeated presses will toggle this note on and off encoder 9 turn to adjust...

Page 91: ...ves the opposite polarity to norm for Yamaha s CS40M and CS15D Gate Mode Gate outputs will usually be linked to the CV output being used to control the pitch of the attached synth This is done using t...

Page 92: ...replaced by ppqn pulses per quarter note This sets the clock division for the pulse output between 48 and 1 Two further values of run and rst give the control signals needed to start or reset an atta...

Page 93: ...her transmission speed than MIDI and uses frame based synchronisation to ensure every trigger pulse is tightly synchronised with all other triggers on the same tick This gives a clearly audible advant...

Page 94: ...with the encoders below each column Any changes made on the trigger map page apply immediately To return to the main drum trig config page press the MENU key There are two velocity curve options Curv...

Page 95: ...on of the normal trigger pulse bursts DIN SYNC Output Scrolling to the end of the default trigger map settings you ll see outputs 17 18 and 19 mapped to special non note values of D run D cnt and D cl...

Page 96: ...only connect the unit to be configured while using this page Note that the drum mux output is purely one way there is no way for the current settings to be read back from a module The most recently u...

Page 97: ...put will always follow the last normal trigger output set with the trig count value For example if trig count is set to 8 with DIN aux enable on the three DIN pins will be triggers 9 10 and 11 for tha...

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Page 99: ...playback Adding a track MIDI value A track MIDI value can send any MIDI CC or a program change message They can be used for real time control and can also be saved for the current SONG or SCENE Store...

Page 100: ...hlight above is on slot 1 The INSERT key is used to add a new value or to change or remove an existing value Let s add a track MIDI value by pressing INSERT This page should appear The top line shows...

Page 101: ...r now and press SAVE to return to the TRACK values page The track value now appears in slot 1 with dashes showing that no value has yet been set The text modwh is a preset label for CC 1 as this CC is...

Page 102: ...l be sent as a CC message to the instrument You now have real time control of this parameter Let s add a second track MIDI value Press encoder number 7 to select the second slot on the display Then pr...

Page 103: ...nue to add further track values for any other parameters you want to control on an instrument If you have filled the first 6 slots or just want to put some values in a separate row each instrument has...

Page 104: ...k value to which you want to assign the knob The display will show this message Simply move knob A or B and the assignment is done You can see that the knob has been assigned from the A or B label tha...

Page 105: ...rrent edit track number and track value name or label and let you store the value for the SONG or SCENE The final two options let you store all edited track values across all tracks at the SONG or SCE...

Page 106: ...nent Track Control Values The second type of track values are potentially far more interesting than MIDI CCs They give access to a number of internal controls in the sequence engine which modify the b...

Page 107: ...ote is C 4 0 255 noteC sets the centre note for the note scaling control C0 G X G 10 velo adjusts velocity values as a proportion of the distance from a centre velocity value 0 255 veloC sets the cent...

Page 108: ...racks which don t have an instrument assigned To access the mixer page from the TRACK page hold SHIFT and press TRACK again Assuming no volume or pan CCs are in use the display will look like this The...

Page 109: ...en selecting the store all track vols pans for SONG SCENE option When the current value matches the stored value the display will show filled bars To remove a value hold the DELETE key and press the t...

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Page 111: ...used as needed for the number of events added to the pattern The CK pattern can also be set to infinite length the events will play through once for as many bars as required but the pattern will neve...

Page 112: ...orm of a drum grid editor which borrows heavily from some of the classic Japanese drum machines of the 1980s If you create and assign a CK pattern to a track then press the PATTERN key you will enter...

Page 113: ...abel and Fixed The VALUE encoder is used to scroll the selection up and down this list Encoders below the display can be used to edit the settings for each note row The purpose of the Label and Fixed...

Page 114: ...will be from the indicator on the far right of the screen as shown here knob A is set to give a velocity of 63 Press some of the step keys now and you will see the step LEDs light for each step where...

Page 115: ...emove the note from the pattern it simply mutes the note so that it does not play This is so that the velocity value set for the step is not lost if you experiment with turning the steps of a pattern...

Page 116: ...ar in the row view as an un filled bar While working on a pattern you may want to clear out any muted notes This can be done using the purge muted notes option on the edit menu As well as showing the...

Page 117: ...ting the velocity length or delay as shown by VELO LENG or DELAY at the top right of the display When you make edits to the length or delay values using the encoders in grid view the display will not...

Page 118: ...his way Bar Length As in P3 edit the BAR encoder is used to select which bar of the pattern you want to edit in a pattern longer than one bar Again the length in bars of a CK pattern can be adjusted b...

Page 119: ...shows the playback position still at bar 1 while the horizontal bracket above bar 4 confirms the edit position It is possible to set a CK pattern to have an infinite length so the pattern will play th...

Page 120: ...otes equivalent to a 4 4 time signature It can be useful when editing a pattern to change the timebase setting to zoom into parts of the pattern to add more rapid notes In order that changing the time...

Page 121: ...e you are still on bar 1 but now looking at the second half starting from what would be step 9 of the pattern viewed at its signature timebase The graphic now shows that the grid view covers the secon...

Page 122: ...P3 edit Note that in P3 edit the gang function selects which steps are to be edited in parallel When ganging notes in CK edit it is the individual note events which are marked as ganged This allows s...

Page 123: ...below the bars will also be highlighted to indicate which steps are ganged It s possible to gang notes on different rows at the same time While holding the GANG key turn the ROW encoder to select a di...

Page 124: ...ive pressing and releasing the GANG key alone will turn off gang mode However by default the notes will retain their ganged marker You can re enter gang mode by pressing GANG again and the previously...

Page 125: ...ds are separate for P3 or CK pattern types and copy insert operations will not convert between them The basic copy function copies all the notes in a chosen range of steps To start a copy operation pr...

Page 126: ...3 and 5 are now copied to the clipboard Now turn the BAR encoder to select bar 2 to insert the copied notes elsewhere in the pattern Press the INSERT key The LED will flash and the top of the display...

Page 127: ...ve press the COPY key then the GANG key A popup message should appear similar to this The gang function will remain active The position for ganged notes copied to the clipboard will be relative to the...

Page 128: ...t is aimed mainly at percussion programming a couple of problems may become apparent It would be tedious to have to add the same set of note rows to the grid every time you create a new pattern And yo...

Page 129: ...igned to the track Use the encoders to enter a label for the note C 4 then press ENTER On returning to the grid view the entered label will appear in place of C 4 in the grid and row views To remove t...

Page 130: ...ation cannot be performed on a pattern set to infinite bar length It is also possible to rotate all events in a pattern one step at a time by holding the SHIFT key while turning the BAR encoder The mo...

Page 131: ...osition bar position and bar length and the view timebase setting Event values are edited using the encoders below each of the values shown on the display The first two values for all events are the s...

Page 132: ...modify events As in drum grid edit the grid timebase setting is adjusted using the VALUE encoder and the bar length with a combination of the LAST key and the BAR encoder The selected event can be del...

Page 133: ...will apply to the fill pattern CK Pattern Record CK patterns can record un quantised note controller channel pressure aftertouch pitch bend poly pressure and program change messages A record filter o...

Page 134: ...s The number and spacing of the beats is set by the tbase option Finally the MIDI option sets the port number and channel on which the metronome signal should be sent The next record menu option is fi...

Page 135: ...bout CK pattern record If you enable record mode while the sequencer is not running it will automatically start on receiving the first incoming note While record is active the DELETE key can be used t...

Page 136: ...tie flag turned on On playback this will give you a continuous note across the recorded steps If a new note overlaps the previous note the previous step will have the tie setting turned on so the not...

Page 137: ...the record key The record LED will light and flash in this mode Step time record allows you to enter notes from a MIDI keyboard into consecutive steps of a pattern with the input position advancing a...

Page 138: ...a similar fashion to a non programmable arpeggiator The step record input position is shown at the right and centre of the display This shows the bar and step number that the next note received will...

Page 139: ...quencer User Manual 12 7 The tie function will cause the most recently entered note to be copied to the next step and the two steps tied for a longer note To exit step time record press the record key...

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Page 141: ...direction and last step They can change global values such as the current tempo and track mutes They can also access normally hidden values that affect patterns in unusual ways Some of the events are...

Page 142: ...o the Randomize group and select it by pressing ROW once more the Rndmz note event is first in the group so just press ROW to select it Now you can enter some values for the event So you can hear the...

Page 143: ...th and so on are also read from the pattern but you get the idea You can enable and set a different value for aux A on whichever steps you like and a different random number will be generated and adde...

Page 144: ...will remain active when the mask event is applied When a pattern step with the Rnd mask gate event enabled is played 1 the note value is read from the pattern 2 the gate status is read from the patte...

Page 145: ...eriment Try assigning some of the other randomize events to your pattern Bear in mind that you will need to trigger a sound that makes changes to the pattern values audible there s not much point rand...

Page 146: ...alue between the current track and the target track push replaces a value on the target track with a value from the current track Let s work through an example to explain what these events can do Befo...

Page 147: ...aux A row and assign the grab event from the Inter Track group Auxes With Double Values Unlike other auxes the values in each step for the grab push and swap events are split in two parts First is th...

Page 148: ...ed so if you were to turn off some of the gates in pattern A it would double up some of the notes in pattern B on the track 1 instrument not play all of them This is one use for note grabbing Another...

Page 149: ...on the target track Swap essentially does a grab and a push at the same time the target values on the current track and target track are swapped You can experiment with the differences between these...

Page 150: ...the following result Step 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Pattern A Note C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 Aux A enabled Pattern B Note C5 D5 E5 F5 G5 A5 B5 C6 D6 E6 F6 G6 A6 B6 C...

Page 151: ...result is pattern A will play for its whole length transposed by the note value on step 1 of pattern B Then pattern A will play for a second time transposed by the note value on step 2 of pattern B An...

Page 152: ...you to enter the extra note as a normal note name The relative events take a number value that is an offset from the main pattern note The xF versions of the events send the extra notes without applyi...

Page 153: ...semitones B5 and you have the same notes as you set for the aux note abs event The difference with the relative events is that you can now transpose all the notes in the chord just by changing the mai...

Page 154: ...lays because they give you access to some hidden values that affect pattern playback These hidden values are the accumulators What Is An Accumulator According to the dictionary an accumulator is simpl...

Page 155: ...the pattern values on every step of the pattern Normally the accumulators have no effect This is because whenever Cirklon is started or a new pattern is selected on a track the accumulators are reset...

Page 156: ...es all rise in pitch by 5 semitones What has happened is simple The offset note abs event puts the aux value into the note accumulator At step 3 in the example pattern a value of 5 is put into the not...

Page 157: ...Turn off any enabled aux A steps you have set and re assign aux A to the offset note rel event Then set the value on step 1 of 1 Each time the pattern plays the four notes will rise in pitch by 1 sem...

Page 158: ...nsposition but that is only a default setting Accumulator Configuration To give you more control over the things they can do each of the accumulators has some configuration settings These settings let...

Page 159: ...f transpose it is cleared The default limit of 36 gives you 3 octaves range on the note accumulator the limit is given in semitones You can set the limit anywhere between 0 and 127 The mode setting te...

Page 160: ...efault accumulator config the note accumulator rises to 36 3 octaves up then is reset to zero To change the mode press the soft key below it on the display encoder 8 Each press advances to the next op...

Page 161: ...tor to go all the way to the negative limit before the reverse switch is turned off again These behaviours may be simpler to understand with a diagram If you have a pattern with an offset event which...

Page 162: ...be reset when the pattern is selected If RoPS is turned off when the pattern is selected any accumulator values changed by the previous pattern will be carried over This is useful for patterns that w...

Page 163: ...of values than on the P3 Sequencer There are another set of events which take no value but simply prevent each accumulator from affecting specific steps on which the event is set active The accumulat...

Page 164: ...t aux D rel event For example if you set up an offset event such that aux D increases by 1 each time the pattern loops you can set certain steps not to be activated until the pattern has played for up...

Page 165: ...s n range 0 127 Mask nAcc Kn n defeat note accumulator unless knob is near n range 0 127 Mask nAcc Kn n defeat note accumulator unless knob is n range 0 127 Mask vAcc Kn n defeat velo accumulator unle...

Page 166: ...add n to xC adds a set value to the aux C value add n to xD adds a set value to the aux D value This group also contains set midi chan this allows you to re assign a single step to any MIDI channel of...

Page 167: ...These behave in almost the same way except that when a prepeat event is active on a step a negative delay value is applied to the step such that the repeating notes begin before the normal step time T...

Page 168: ...nt n temporarily re assign aux D to an aux event range aux events auxes to trk n This event re directs all following auxes so that they apply to the specified target track instead of the current track...

Page 169: ...Sequentix Music Systems Cirklon Sequencer User Manual 13 29 set scene xpos sets the scene transpose value over riding the current setting...

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Page 171: ...N data interchange format a plain text human readable format Details of the schema for these files will be released in a separate document The various data management options can be found on the play...

Page 172: ...filename is based on the song name but may have unsupported characters removed and be shortened to fit the MS DOS 8 3 filename format Due to licensing requirements only short file and folder names are...

Page 173: ...d to CKS To alter the filename or destination scroll and select either value on the song save page For the filename the text input mode display will appear If you select the Save path option the folde...

Page 174: ...s entered you will return to the folder browser page with the new folder selected as the current path With a folder structure on the card you can navigate by scrolling and selecting the folders names...

Page 175: ...the file in the order that they are currently stored in memory and this order will be restored when file is re loaded after performing a wipe songs operation SAVE Instrument This option is used to sa...

Page 176: ...guration options This method is best for making a full backup that can be used to restore your Cirklon to the exact state it was in at the time the file was saved Storage The final option on the save...

Page 177: ...songs which have been saved in a single file using the SAVE All Songs option When you select this option the file browser page appears The top line shows the current folder path Below is a list of su...

Page 178: ...will scan through the file for any further songs and continue loading The replace rename skip prompt may appear again if any of those are also found in memory When re loading songs the instrument defi...

Page 179: ...finition you will need to manually re create the settings for that instrument The LOAD Instrument s option is used to restore saved instrument definitions As with song loading you will be prompted to...

Page 180: ...ned to the tracks in a new song you will need to manually assign appropriate instruments for the patterns being imported MIDI Sysex Due to the amount of data that can be stored in Cirklon s memory sys...

Page 181: ...emory Initialisation If you need to completely re initialise Cirklon s memory you can do this as follows With the power off hold down the SONG key Turn the power on continuing to hold down the SONG ke...

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Page 183: ...SYX file backup is the best method to use In some cases the data in memory will be unaffected by the update process but this is not always true In very rare instances it may be required to use the ind...

Page 184: ...folder inserted in the rear panel press encoder 8 The display should show the progress as the file is loaded into the program flash memory inside your Cirklon CPU Once the update is complete Cirklon w...

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