Voices
Voices control how a track’s notes are sent out. Echo repeats each note a few times, quieter each time. Voice mode and the partner channel let one track play through two MIDI channels, so one track can drive two synth voices.
Open it from Playback with RIGHT, or hold EDIT and tap pad 44 in the picker.
Echo
| Setting | Step pad | Value pads |
|---|---|---|
| Repeats | 82 | 41 Off, 42 is 1, 43 is 2 … 48 is 7, 31 is 8 |
| Time | 86 | 41 is 1 step … 48 is 8 steps, counted at the track’s speed |
| Decay | 73 | 41 is 10 percent, rising to 38 at 100 percent (16 values) |
Each repeat plays at the decay percentage of the one before: with decay 70 (the default), the first repeat is at 70 percent of the note’s velocity, the second at 49 percent, and so on. 100 keeps every repeat at full velocity. A repeat that would fall below velocity 1 is dropped. Echo is off by default.
Voice mode
Voice mode (step pad 78) splits the notes of the track over two channels: the track’s own channel and the partner channel. It does nothing until a partner channel is set, and the partner must differ from the track’s channel.
- 41 Off (default): all notes on the track’s channel.
- 42 Round-robin: each note alternates between the track channel and the partner.
- 43 Lowest free: each note goes to whichever channel has fewer notes sounding.
- 44 Pitch split: notes below the track’s root stay on the track channel; higher notes go to the partner.
Partner channel
The partner channel (step pad 65) is set with the value pads. Pad 41 is channel 1, pad 42 is channel 2, and so on up to pad 38 for channel 16. Tap the channel that is already set to remove it.
Example: a Circuit Tracks synth split across two voices can be track 1 on channel 1 with partner channel 2, and Round-robin voice mode. The Circuit Tracks preset already starts track 1 with partner channel 2; only the voice mode is off.