Projects

Projects

Some additional aspects surrounding the use of Projects

Switching Projects

There are some rules governing how Circuit Tracks responds when you change from one Project to another. If you are in Stop Mode and change Projects in Projects View, when you press the Play button, the new Project always begins at the step defined as the Start point of the Pattern (Step 1 by default) for each track ; if the Project comprises chained Patterns, it will begin at the Start Point of the first Pattern.

• this will be the case regardless of which step the sequencer was at when it was last stopped.
• The tempo of the new Project will replace that of the previous one.

There are two options for changing Projects while in Play Mode:

1. If you select a new Project by pressing its pad, the current Pattern will play through to its last step (note - only the current Pattern, not a Scene or a complete chain of Patterns), and the pad for the new Project will flash white to indicate that it is being “queued". The new Project will then begin playing from Start point (Step 1 by default) of its pattern, or the Start Point of the first Pattern in chain or its first Scene, as the case may be.
2. If you hold down Shift when selecting a new Project, the newly selected Project will begin playing immediately. The new Project will play from the same step in the Pattern chain that the previous Project had reached.
   • Instant Project switching can become particularly interesting when the two Projects either contain Patterns of different lengths, or different numbers of Patterns making up a Pattern chain.

Clearing Projects

Clear may be used in Projects View to delete unwanted Projects. 

• Press and hold Clear; it illuminates bright red and all the grid pads extinguish except that for the currently selected Project, which shows bright white. Press this pad to delete the Project.
  • Note that this procedure makes it only possible to delete the currently selected Project, providing a safeguard against deleting the wrong Project.

Saving Projects to new slots

Use Save to store the tracks you've been working on to a Project memory slot.

• Save needs to be pressed twice to complete the store process: the first press will flash the Save button; a second press will save your work to the last Project memory that was in use.
  • This means that if your current work was based on a previously-saved Project, the original version will be overwritten.
  • To ensure that your work gets saved in a different Project memory, switch to Projects View. You will see that the first press of Save causes the pad for the last-selected Project to pulse white. If you want to save your work in a new memory slot, press the pad for that slot.
  • You can “abort” the Save routine after the first press of Save by pressing any other button.

Changing Project Colours

You can also assign a different colour to any of the pads in Project View (helpful in live performances.) You choose the colour as part of the Save procedures described above.

• After pressing Save for the first time, the LED under Macro 1 rotary control will light in the current colour of the pad for the currently selected Project.
  • There are 14 colours you can choose from.
  • When you see the colour you want, either press Save for a second time, or press the pad corresponding to the memory location: this completes the Save process.
    • Note: The pad will become white after the Save operation, so you won't immediately see the new colour ,but you will do so as soon as you select a different Project.