Beyond the basics
>For deeper elements, Circuit Tracks is a tale of two halves. The first is the sounds themselves, coming from the two polysynths and the sample engine. In hardware control terms, Novation have kept things purposefully surface level. While the synths have an expanded bank of preset sounds on offer, editing of parameters is still limited to use of the eight pre-defined Macros – although the fact that these are now labelled makes it easier to see what you’re adjusting. The samples tracks are a similar story – samples are selected from two banks of one-shot sounds, with just four Macros used to adjust playback pitch, decay length, distortion and a basic high/ low-shelf EQ.