The Ultimate Novation Circuit Rhythm Tutorial

Thanks!

10/10 tutorial

bro when I play a sample on the chromatic keyboard, the higher I play, the fast the sample plays and the lower I play, the slower it plays. how can I unlink pitch and speed?

Thanks for all the info!

After iv made the first pattern can I use other samples on the other patterns without them changing the previous patterns sound ?

Just got mine today only figure out the basics so far but love it

the machine that all StarTrek fans want 🤣🤣

jokes aside, I wanted to give it a little thought because I only have the Yamaha su200 and a Roland JS30 but they are slow and a bit obsolete although the su200 allows you to work with exceptionally long samples I need something faster when it comes to capturing maybe the sound from a movie

How long can Rhythm load samples for each track?
the other option is the 404 but there is a price difference....

Super useful video! Always appreciate a clear explanation like this :-)

Gabe, I am so grateful for your wonderful videos. I recently pulled the trigger and got the Circuit Rhythm and am having a blast! Got your sample packs too and can’t wait to give them a spin. Thank you!!!!!

Gabe i’ve been thinking a lot lately of finally getting one of these, but i was checking it out at our local music store the other day and — is it just me? — are the rhythm-related GridFX (beat repeat, stutter) somehow slightly offbeat? maybe it was just the machine i was using, but for me that’s a deal breaker

What does the setup page do?

Pressed Shift and Clear/Click and hear no Click?

I just bought a Circuit Rhythm as a first time electronic music user (life long guitar player). Your videos have been super helpful getting to know this new little machine. Thank you!

He visto este tutorial 4 veces, hasta que de verdad aprendí, No es un aparato amistoso pero tu tutorial si lo es. GRACIAS!

Greetings Gabe and fellow Circuit Rhythm users!
About a way to transpose chords in Circuit Rhythm...
Can I record a C major chord, and play the sampled chord on Rhythm's note keyboard?
Wouldn't the chord be transposed correctly on a harmonic scale? I'm sorry if my music theory is mistaken, but would it not result like: C, C#, D, D#, E, F, and so on when the chord is played on a harmonic scale?...
If this works, I can sample the chords: C, Cm, and C7 on any instrument, to be able to play most of the common chords.
Is this a viable way to workarround the lack of polyphony on the Rhythm device?

Hi, can I use the Circuit Rhythm for the creating beats without external devices? And can I import mp3 files to sample them exclusively on the Circuit Rhytm?

i love you, thanks for the video.

Anyone else have an issue where loops trigger slower than the tempo and catch up after a couple seconds? It’s driving me crazy.

Hi Gabe Miller,

Great and very useful video but I still have an unresolved mystery, which is, how to record the tempo for a particular project/pattern....I'd like a different tempo according to different projects but each time I change the project, and so, the tempo, the machine records this last tempo for all the other projects....how can i do????
Thanks in advance for your answers!

Juliette

Great tutorial, thanks. What does the bottom row do in sidechain mode?

is it possible to perform and launch full songs from ableton and bring this on stage?

is there a way to up the volume on the device, i find it not very loud coming from my mixer

once again--huuuuuge shoutout to you,Gabe. Just got your pack installed and uploaded to the rhythm- it worked directly, nothing went wrong- i am surprised and happy the same time :D . It took my around 2 weeks and many views of your and novation tutorials to get in.. .. but it was the time worth
For me its importand to make my own beats and on the other side a can mess around with my guitar and get the things recorded together ;) done
juhuuuu. cheers from austria

Can you chain Projects in the same way as Scenes and Patterns, or do you have to switch between them live as they play? I'm used to pattern chaining entire songs as the main form of composing and arrangement, and trying to see if this device can fit that workflow

I just bought your sound pack and its Amazing!

My understanding from reading the manual, and from comments Novation made related to videos for the Launchpad Pro mk3, is that velocity is set for an entire step, not just an individual component of that step. So in your hi hat example, if a kick or snare shared one of the steps that you reduced the velocity on, it too would have a drop in velocity. Is that correct?

Late to the party, but recently ordered a Circuit Rhythm as my first dedicated sampler. I had been having little luck wrapping my head around the workflow until finding this video. This took me from hopeless to relatively fluent in only a few viewings, and now it’s one of my favorite pieces of gear! Can’t overstate how helpful this was. Thanks for doing what you do!

I know I’m one year late, but can you overdub on the same sample while in the recording process?

Hey.... Quick question. I have the circuit v1... And I'm looking to buy the circuit tracks, can the circuit tracks sync/clock to my circuit v1? I'm thinking of creating my drums on circuit v1 and create everything else on the circuit tracks? Thanks in advance, stu👍🏼

can i plug my bass with it while giving a live performance?

Gracias from Colombia! Great tutorial I’ll keep coming back to and far superior than Novation’s tutorial series. We all love Ricky Tiñez but my god were those 1min videos useless.
Your content is great and the only way is up! ✌️

Can you change the volume of the step?

Bro, great tutorial 👌

Thank you for this. Quality work.

I'm a beginner and was expecting the Intro and Setup to explain to how to Setup this hardware, but it doesn't..rip...

Dude you have a talent of explaining complicated shit

Hi Gabe! Love your channel, and bought my first Novation (Rhythm) about a week ago. Love this tutorial, and I know my way around somewhat and have made a decent start, but I cannot yet fully wrap my head around the sort of meta-topics of it surrounding where my specific beats live, how to see all 32 steps when my sequence is playing, does your recorded pattern exist within the loaded sample pack or independently, and questions like this. I know you have done many tutorials on the Circuit Tracks, but would be great if you could consider another more in-depth look at the Ryhthm from the viewpoint of someone who is not experienced in the concepts of the tracks. Anyway either way I appreciate your channel and the decide is awesome. I almost returned it right away but after a few days I am getting the hang of it much more.

Can you apply a delay / reverb effect on one track only?

I can't be the only one who just sees a guy pushing random buttons. This doesn't look fun to work with

Amazing content. I understand now . I almost gave up.

Thanks gabe… you dig realy deep on the machine… (kiss from Paris fr)

Is this a standalone unit ? Do sounds already come loaded out the box and ready to use without a pc/Mac ?

I think the novation circuit line has had its day to be honest, they need to move on, an extra 100 or so would buy you an MPC one, this is not worth the hassle

Well after 5 random videos I watched about getting into this and different hardware, 4 of them were your videos and now I'm going to purchase one of these. Thanks Gabe!

I have no clue how you got the reverb and delay on there. Totally glossed over...

this unit looks pretty fun to work with.

To me, the most annoying part about the Rhythm is the "packs" concept, and how you load samples onto it. I mean, the web-app works fine, but it's so unconventional and makes me rely on an internet connection and a web browser. That being said, once the samples are in there, it's a ton of fun. Personally, I haven't hit the sample length limitation yet, but I totally understand how others might hit that and find it to be a serious limitation.

Nice work, Gabe, as always!

Super cool awesome fun times. Thanks for laying it out so smoothly! It’s over for these nerds 🤓

Just
Ordered
My circuit.
Thank you for all the videos. Can’t wait to dig in and partner with my 404sx. Anyway you can do a video sampling vinyl and setting different chops and layering?