And that’s Ricky Tinez 
That’s why he was silent on Insta
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The big reveal seems to be near 
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Create anywhere - The built-in rechargeable battery provides up to four hours of battery life, so you can make beats on the move.
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Sound Collective - Register your Circuit Tracks to get access to free plugins and content with Novation Sound Collective.
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Sound Collective - Bringing Novation hardware owners a new free plug-in every couple of months.
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Don’t think it’s for me but thumbs up for usb C. A minor point but I much prefer using it to the older USB ports and cables
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sales blurb…
Novation Circuit Tracks leans into the screen free and deeply intuitive workflow which made the original Circuit a fan-favourite ever since it launched in 2015. Since then, Novation have listened closely to the Circuit community, and considered their feedback in the design of Circuit Tracks.
Create instinctively. Perform immediately.
Novation Circuit Tracks is an agile groovebox for creating and performing electronic music without resistance. Designed for electronic and dance music producers, it lets creativity thrive so creators can lose themselves in the seamless workflow of the hands-on sequencer.
Two refined polyphonic digital synth tracks let users expand their sonic capabilities, and they can load samples, then shape them to perfection across four drums tracks. Two dedicated MIDI tracks make Circuit Tracks an ideal lead sequencer and control hub in a multi-device setup. For music makers on the move, Circuit Tracks can be unplugged and used anywhere, using the built-in rechargeable battery.
Circuit Tracks is class compliant, so will work with any modern Mac, Windows or Linux PC.
Key Features:
- All-in-one studio - Two synth tracks, two MIDI tracks and four drum tracks: everything you need to create and perform music.
- The agile groovebox - Lose yourself in a hands-on production workflow. Let your creativity thrive.
- Acclaimed, hands-on sequencer - Create 32-step patterns, chainable for up to 256 steps sequences per track. Go off-grid with microtiming, and keep your music evolving with probability and pattern mutate.
- Colossal sound - Expand your sonic capabilities with two refined polyphonic digital synth tracks. Load your own samples and shape them to perfection across four drums tracks.
- Total control of your setup - Pilot your studio with two dedicated MIDI tracks, capable of sending notes and CC automation.
- FX on everything - Douse synths, drums, and incoming audio in lush reverb and delay, make your mix pump with sidechain and punch with the master compressor.
- Comprehensive connectivity - Connect to your studio with full-size five-pin MIDI in, out, and thru, and analogue sync out. Mix and apply effects to two audio inputs, and listen through stereo out or with headphones.
- Never stop creating - Insert a microSD card to save thousands of synth patches, samples and projects.
- Create anywhere - The built-in rechargeable battery provides up to four hours of battery life, so you can make beats on the move.
- Go further with Components - Novation Components is the online companion that lets you delve into the synth engine, load samples and backup projects.
- Sound Collective - Register your Circuit Tracks to get access to free plugins and content with Novation Sound Collective.
- Included with Circuit Tracks - USB-C cable, USB power supply, Safety information
- Compatibility - Circuit Tracks is class compliant so it will work with any modern Mac or Windows PC
Included Software
- Novation Components Standalone software.
- Sound Collective - Bringing Novation hardware owners a new free plug-in every couple of months.
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Tracks can play samples too (has sd card slot), not just the Samples model. Maybe this isn’t a surprise given the orig Circuit, but I thought they were splitting these duties across the 2 new models. 
Side chaining the external input is cool.
And please let this be the beginning of the end of the midi dongle adapter doohickey thingy.
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Good save, they just pulled the page down.
Ricky Tinez’ video is also down. Looked pretty cool, tho. Presets for the midi tracks with CC assignments.
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I guess the drum tracks will support parameter lock per step function!
Forgive the possibly dumb question from someone who doesn’t own a circuit:
Is the circuits tracks ‘just’ a circuit with two added midi tracks ?
It’s kinda Circuit MK2, but it seems that the sequencer has inherited the feats from its siblings, which is dope. And yeah, 2 midi tracks (with poly sequencing I guess) but you can process external audio signal with the FX… So, Circuit Tracks + a small synth and a small drum machine and you’re good to go!
Edit: if it has audio over USB, it’s a winner. Even without that, I’m already throwing money at my screen.
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We do not know the full specification and set of functions yet, so its hard to tell.
It’s certainly more of an evolution rather than revolution.
I can see that there’s a Mutate function which AFAIK was only present in Circuit Mono Station.
I hope the synth engine is improved too. I guess we will find out this weekend.
And you have an sd card slot for drum samples and audio input, those things were also not present in the OG.
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I guess this probably means the same thing that’s on the Launchkey mini Mk3 (and possibly other launchkeys) ?
Leaving the “drum” tracks of the circuit for other samples I guess ?
What does this mutate function actually do?
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Hmm that makes it an ideal pairing for effects-less synths like the micro freak or craftsynth 2.0 I suppose …
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If its the same mutate as the launchkey, it makes variations on the pitches in your arpeggio, with a control that goes from nothing, through adding adding octaves, to quite extreme.
it partially randomizes your pattern based on what you already programmed.
at least that’s how it works on Mono Station, which I own.
Mutate isn’t as useful as it might first sound. Variation is cool and all, but with no real control over the exact pitch, you’ll get charming results as best. Not out of key or non-scale stuff, it all stays within proper harmonics so it’s predictable enough, but the Deluge does this way better, where you can set up a batch of notes which you decide yourself, and then it can randomly pick from that batch. Gives you control over the composition.
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