Novation 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