Novation Circuit Tracks

Kind

groovebox

Clock

sends clock · out: midi-din/usb/analog-clock · in: midi-din/usb

Audio

stereo main out · audio in

Voices

6 assignables

Cited to

Circuit Tracks Programmer’s Reference Guide, v3

Maker’s page

novationmusic.com

320 of 320 values provisional. 261 of 261 ranges cited to the Circuit Tracks Programmer's Reference Guide v3 and the Circuit Tracks User Guide v3.

A point is the setting to dial, and it counts as cited only where a document prints that value. A range is the control’s own limits, and mood may move a value only inside a cited range, so 0 parameters here declare an axis that cannot move.

19 of 24 capability facts cited to a document, 1 partly cited, 3 cited against. 1 fact was looked for and the manual does not state it.

Read, answers no

features.sidechain.fromExternalAudio

p.93 enumerates the side chain trigger as Drum 1-4 and nothing else; the external audio inputs appear on that page as things being ducked, which is the opposite end of the feature from the one this field records

manual — Circuit Tracks User Guide v3, p.93

io.usbAudio

The rear-panel callout for the USB-C port states outright that it carries no audio

manual — Circuit Tracks User Guide v3, p.18

noteDuration

three pages answer and the answers are incompatible at device level: p.45 gives a synth track a per-note Gate in steps, p.66 has Gate View on a drum track showing micro steps rather than a length, and p.63 puts a drum hit’s duration on the DECAY macro, which is sound design and not a per-note value — so the pages refute the premise that one device-level model fits, rather than being silent on it, and this is not a claim that the box expresses no duration at all

manual — Circuit Tracks User Guide v3, pp.45, 63, 66

Read, answers part

voices

The page establishes p.35 gives the synth tracks six-note polyphony ("Circuit Tracks’ synth engines are six-note polyphonic") and p.64 the eight-track split ("two synths, two MIDI and four drums")

It leaves open no page in either document states a drum track’s playback polyphony — whether a step retriggering a sounding sample cuts it or overlaps it is nowhere — so the 1 here is an authoring choice, argued in the `voices` comment above and supported by nothing

manual — Circuit Tracks User Guide v3, pp.35 and 64

Read, does not say

clock.preferredSource

p.85 describes following an external clock as automatic and p.105 describes leading as a default-on toggle, one paragraph each and neither choosing; the only self-description in either document is p.7’s "Novation Circuit Tracks Groovebox" on the packing list

Panel span: maker — Novation Circuit Tracks product specifications, novationmusic.com/products/circuit-tracks — "Length 240mm, Depth 210mm, Height 45mm", fetched 2026-08-29