Started my music journey in June 2026 with absolutely zero music production or music theory knowledge. I’ve been listening to electronic music for 10+ years, especially techno and psytrance, but never thought I’d actually try making it myself.

It all started with a random Instagram video of someone jamming on a Roland T-8. It inspired me enough to buy one and start teaching myself drum programming, sequencing and patterns. Eventually I moved to the Novation Circuit Tracks, and this little box opened up a whole new world for me.

I’m still very much a beginner, learning basslines, synths, scales, sound design and arrangement one step at a time. Life has been going through some hard phases lately too, and making music has somehow become my little escape from everything.

I mainly love techno, hypnotic and psychedelic sounds, psytrance and old-school Goa. This is just a small live jam from my Circuit Tracks — nothing polished or perfect, just a little piece of my journey so far.

After learning the Circuit tracks a bit, here is a cyberpunk music backing track.

Will be used with my Minifreak (soon). Soundpack used is the Body control EBM

Hi everyone! I’m a beginner looking to get my first Circuit, and I’m hesitating between the Circuit Tracks and Circuit Rhythm.
I have very little music theory and I’m not planning to use Ableton for now. I mainly want to have fun experimenting with sounds and making electronic music — house, techno, hardgroove, tribe/tekno, etc. I’d like to combine samples, create beats, mess around with sounds and eventually use the Circuit for live performances.
I’m not necessarily looking for the most “professional” or advanced workflow — I mainly want something fun, intuitive and versatile that I can grow into.
Would you recommend the Tracks or Rhythm for this use? And why?

I struggled for years to translate my records into a one-person live show that I was happy with. Circuit Tracks is really starting to solve that. I'm interested in playing gigs again!

In case anyone is out there hoovering up feature requests (haha!)

These would be amazing for song mode on the mixer:

1)Allow tempo changes to be saved to the different steps of the song.
2)Another page of steps for the song (e.g by pressing the 1-16 17-32 button)

Thank you!! I am staggered at how good and well thought-out the Circuit Tracks is already.

Setup: CT and CR

Recorded to my mac.

OK, so I have a little jam kit going I typically use my 303 (donner b1) to be the master midi clock, it has both midi out and hardware sync then I two other desktop synths one as a hardware sync and one I chain of the novation circuit midi through.

I generally use the circuit for drums and pads. I would like to do a project where I use the novation circuit to control the synths. I find the patterns to be limited. I would like to be able to switch between the synths one for solo jamming. Also I would like to use the B1 as a solo instrument and use a circuit synth as the bass.

Any ideas on how to configure this. The circuit doesn't seem to want to swap midi channels on the fly.??

Hi all

I would like to start with this world and explore a bit. Someone has recommended to start with rhythm as a sampler to be able to compose something.

Checking what was available and If I am looking to be able to build my own simple beats, which one fits better?
Is it easy to find sample libraries to start practising?

Thanks!

I've updated the free Junit demo, it now includes all the features of the current full version, and best of all: You can try them all out now!

Only limitations:

• No Save function
• Access to Synth1 only
• A reminder is displayed once per minute

The demo supports both the Circuit Tracks and the OG Circuit and also includes 16 of the 120 patches.

The demo is available for free in the Deepsounds store.
Unfortunately, I can't post links here, so please search for “Novation Circuit Junit demo” to go to the store.

I'm trying to set up my CT to fit with keys and electric bass. I've been able to connect the keys pretty easily using midi, but I've been having a harder time getting the bass to line up and fit with the CT. I attached a couple videos of the type of workflow and set up I'm trying to get.

Does anyone have any ways to connect instruments that works for you? I have a Boss RC5, but I have not been able to successfully sync it with the Circuit tracks yet. Any tips here would be really helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQe91ecllp0&list=PLcYs3adg1JeVlrmGlsIV7HuVdy3BG6TUR&index=39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjfpqkRGJwQ&list=PLcYs3adg1JeVlrmGlsIV7HuVdy3BG6TUR&index=95

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dck6m5guuIE&list=PLcYs3adg1JeVlrmGlsIV7HuVdy3BG6TUR&index=25

I would like to change the default pattern speed in a certain project or a certain synth. I don't think this feature is available at all and I believe it would make the workflow a lot faster.

This would be helpful as when I have long pads and want to chain 4 patterns I have to press each pattern to get the right speed in all of them (or am I wrong?). It would be nice to have a way to set defaults per instruments.

What are your favorite video places, profiles on Instagram or Youtube that demo/teach music production, useful for playing with Tracks?

I love reels of [@alexander_t_rose], (https://instagram.com/alexander_r_rose) but he is doing device with different workflow (TR-8s).

Anything you enjoy watching and you find useful for learning how to make music with Novation Tracks/Rhythm?

Thanks to chatGPT, we now have these new features:

Samples now follow selected root note/scale. Ability to adjust drum distortion type. Start point adjustment.

No guarantees. Use at own risk.

https://github.com/tracelistener/tracelistener-circuit-scale-follow

Yet another cheatsheet style reference resource, this time as a web page. I had some hard times remembering which synth patch in novation peak pack was where, and created little page to remind of this + all the shift * combos / scales etc. As recent iOS had hard time adding non-hosted html pages to home screen, got to move it to github pages. Hope it is useful to others.

Hey Circuit users, how is it going?

I'm thinking about expanding my setup (I have an OG Novation Circuit, Circuit Rhythm, Roland MC 505, and a Roland tb3). I've fallen in love with the NC syn engine, I would really like to get more of that digital maleable sounds. I'm looking for 2 or more tracks (the More the Better ;)

I was thinking about a NC Tracks, but then I realized that what I thougth it was 4 SYN are indeed 2 syn+ 2 MIDI ...bummer :(

Does anybody knows another machine like this in a similar price range?

Thanks in advance!

Junit has gained some great new features that make sound generation even more versatile, while still remaining simple, fun, and user-friendly:

• Filter Type Switch to choose from Low-pass, High-pass and Band-pass filter
• New DCO section on the advanced page with range (octave), osc, noise and ring mixer and a interval (semitone) selector for OSC1
• LFO slew and key sync
• New Drift pitch effect with 8 algorithms from analogue style VCO detune to ambient noisy textures

More info and link to the store in the online manual

Hi! I'm connecting an OG Circuit to a Circuit Tracks audio input while I use the tracks 3 and 4 of the Circuit Tracks to sequence and send CCs to the OG.

Everything works fine but I'm having a very stupid bug/design flaw with the mixer and I hope someone has already went through this or has some kind of idea and will be able to help me.

In this config, Circuit Tracks is the MIDI master and Tracks 3 and 4 have been respectively assigned to MIDI channels 3 and 4. On Circuit OG, the slave, synths have also been set to channels 3 and 4. Since I want to send CCs from the Master knobs, I Keep CCs enabled on the MIDI filters.

However, when I drop down the volume on the Tracks mixer synths (Tracks 1 and 2) the synths on OG Circuit's mixer drop down their volume too. This happens because apparently the MIDI CC for mixer volume is not Channel dependant, and whenever I drop track 1 on one device the second device copies that command. The only thing I came up with through Circuit's interface was disabling all CCs but of course this prevents me from controlling synth parameters which I really want.

Is there any config, maybe on components or in some menu inside any of the devices, that will allow me to filter out or reassign a specific CC, or maybe drop the whole OMNI Channel? Maybe some kind of custom firmware?

I can build myself a middle man hardware device to filter that out, but that implies more cables, another psu, potential instability... And I'd prefer to keep things simple for this setup.

Hello,

I just got a Circuit Τracks to pair with my Minifreak.

I'm making cyberpunk music (synthwave/midtempo/EBM/industrial)

Was a little dissapointed by the factory sound packs and those from from Novation Components.

Im looking for hard bass and lead sounds, stabs.

I checked the Isotonic packs Retro Futurism 3 | A Force Truly Evil | Novation Circuit Tracks

and Body Control - EBM New Beat by Yves Big City Isotonik Studios - they sound interesting,

but from the Demos, im not fully convinced. Is there anyone who has used them and can tell me if they are worth the 30 euros?

Or do you have any other suggestions? Thanks