Noviation Circuit - MS
A very naughty synth
Circuit Mono Station is a scheming, manipulative little beast of a machine, with a deafening roar to be tamed. It’s infectious to use, quick to engage with and capable of some unpredictable and rather dangerous results.
Just try and muzzle it
Featuring three types of analogue distortion effects, a really nasty ring modulator, a chunky sub-oscillator and step automation for all 53 parameters, Circuit Mono Station sounds bloody disgusting. It’s an instrument that can be used as an experimental, polyrhythmic sound design tool – set apart with Bass Station II’s synth engine, reworked into a paraphonic form. Sequences can benefit from longer LFOs staying in sync across several notes, perfect for making widely evolving musical phrases.
Impressive CV with lots of sequencing experience
Having the same workflow as the Circuit sequencer and synth, Circuit Mono Station really is the potty-mouthed child of Novation. The Mod Seq, Swing Sync and a Mutate function are useful for happy accidents, and the AUX CV output can send complex modulation signals to the outside world. You can programme notes into the Mod Seq page to independently control your modular and CV gear with pitch and gate control via the CV/GATE output.
It’ll say anything to anyone
With USB MIDI, MIDI IN/OUT/THRU, CV and GATE connectors, Circuit Mono Station can get in the face of every piece of gear in its space.
Product Hardware Specifications
32 RGB backlit velocity sensitive button grid
18 RGB backlit function buttons
8 Pots including dedicated filter and volume pots
2 Encoders for tempo and modulation path depth
6 RGB backlit mini pots for mixer section
4 35mm sliders for envelope ADSR control
16 Tact switches
27 Orange LEDs for functional selection
19 RGB indicator LEDs
2 1/4” jack sockets for line out and audio input
3 3.5mm jack sockets for MIDI in, out and thru (MIDI din break-out cables included)
2 3.5mm jack sockets for analogue clock in and out
3 3.5mm jack sockets for CV, gate and aux CV output
USB B 2.0 / MIDI comms only (no bus-power)
Configurable MIDI channels
Front-mounted 3.5mm jack socket for headphones
Rubberised knob caps
Rotary controls secured to the chassis with metal nuts
Power supply connector
Power switch
Kensington Security Slot
Synth Engine
Paraphonic - dual osc, single amp with separate control of each oscillator's pitch
64 Synth patches
2 Oscillators + sub osc (follows the pitch of osc 1)
Noise generator
Coarse and fine tune per osc
Waveform octave depth 16’, 8’, 4’ or 2’
Ring mod between osc 1 and 2
Oscillator waveforms include:
Sine, triangle, sawtooth, square / variable pulse width
Envelope
1 ADSR Envelope (Attack/Decay/Sustain/Release)
Routable via the modulation matrix
LFO
Single LFO with rate
Sync mode
Waveforms include:
Sine, triangle, sawtooth, square / variable pulse width, sample and hold
Filter
State variable OTA filter
12/24dB slope
Low-pass / band-pass / high-pass
Pre-filter overdrive
Frequency and resonance controls
Modulation
4x8 Modulation matrix
All modulation routes available at all times with depth control for each route
Mod sources (4)
Envelope
LFO
Modulation sequence
Pad velocity
Mod destinations (8)
Osc 1 pitch
Osc 2 pitch
Osc 1 PWM
Osc 2 PWM
Amp
Filter cut-off
Distortion level
Aux CV outpu
Mixer:
Osc 1 level
Osc 2 level
Sub Osc level
Noise generator level
Ring modulation depth
Audio In (with gain control)
Distortion
3 types of analogue distortion: 1, 2 and 3 (combination of 1 & 2)
Sequencer
32 Sessions
2 Tracks per session + 1 track modulation sequence
16 Patterns for osc 1, 8 patterns for osc 2 and mod sequence
16 Demo sessions
Real time record (notes, with velocity and automation)
Auto-quantise notes to steps and automation to 6 events per step
Sequencer resolution 24 PPQN
51 Automation parameters
All knob and slider movements can be recorded (excluding volume)
All modulation route depths can be automated
Tempo range 40 - 240 BPM
Swing 20 - 80%
Glide amount configurable per step
8 Pattern sync rates (incl. triplet rates)
Pattern direction setting including ping-pong and random
Pattern mutate
8 Global swing sync rates (incl. triplet rates)
Real Time Performance
Full range velocity scanning and record. Editable to 16 levels
16 Scale types and chromatic transposition
Synth expand view doubles playable area
Dual view for playing osc 1 and osc 2 simultaneously and independently
Paraphonic mode option switch to select how the amp envelope triggers
Configurable pattern start and end points
Configurable pattern chain
Instant and queued Session switching
Instant and queued Pattern switching
Editing
Velocity and gate per step
Fractional gate lengths (each step divisible by 6)
Automation edit per step
Clear step, automation parameter per pattern, pattern, session
Duplicate step, pattern
Software Compatibility
Ableton Live Lite 9 is included
Circuit Mono Station is a USB-MIDI class compliant device
Power Requirements
Maximum power consumption 12V DC 1A
Product Dimensions
240mm width x 250mm depth x 54mm height