How To: Making 170bpm Jungle with the Novation Circuit Rhythm - Beginners Guide Tutorial

A beginner tutorial for making your first Jungle beat on the Novation Circuit Rhythm. A lot of these same rules would apply if you wanted to make drum and bass. Subscribe for electronic and Hip-hop music, music videos, tutorials, artwork and more! I also do music edit requests, if you have a song you want remixed or edited let me know.
What we're making today - 0:02
Picking a tempo - 0:38
Finding a drum break - 0:42
Found the drum break - 1:13
Chopping the break - 1:28
Sequencing a simple 2 step pattern - 1:43
Trimming unwanted drum hits - 2:31
Manipulating drum FX - 3:00
Building hi-hat sequence - 3:57
Changing velocity to create groove - 4:54
Moar percussion - 5:24
Recording panning automation - 6:12
Microstep timing - 7:30
Melodic sounds on the Roland S1 - 8:40
Sampling into the Circuit Rhythm - 9:23
Drone/pad bed - 9:44
Using the S1 to make a bass - 11:09
Sampling bass into the Circuit Rhythm - 11:36
Sequencing bass sample - 12:08
Step sequencer probability - 12:29
Full beat - 13:33
BEATS BY REQUEST
RHYMES ON DEMAND
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[@CJIeDonbIT]

Thanks! Can i do live set with this thing? I mean, if i be playing around breaks live, slicing it and e.t. and musical part of performance be from other synth?

[@nugchompah]

Definitely! If your breaks are well organised the auto-slice feature will allow you to quickly switch between breaks with minimal fuss, and you can certainly have a different synth playing melodies or something else. Keep in mind that if you are piping the other synth through the Rhythm, the grid fx/global EQ will effect the synth and the Rhythm.

[@Ninzumecha]

Do you feel limited by the storage for breaks?

[@nugchompah]

A little bit sometimes, but the limitations of a device like this are part of the fun for me. 3ish mins isn’t huge if you use a lot of longer samples, but back in the day artists made great music with much, much less storage! All about how you use it. I personally don’t feel too limited, I keep about 5 breaks on the Circuit Rhythm at once and try and use them to death before I grab new ones. The joy of the CR is the relatively friction-less nature of sampling, so if you get used to sampling an external device quickly you could keep a ton of breaks on your phone and sample them in as required. I’ve since bought an Octatrack, and the storage space is much larger, but personally I only like keeping a limited set of samples on there anyway. The joy of DAWless devices like this for me is not trying to use them as a limitless DAW, but embracing their idiosyncrasies and creating workarounds as required.

[@Ninzumecha]

@@nugchompah yeah I’m sure limitations have pretty much created styles/genres. I’m really warming to the idea of the Circuit Tracks. Thanks for the feedback 😊✌️

[@Ninzumecha]

@@nugchompah Oh and keeping a bank of sounds on your phone is such a good idea!