Overview
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.
Key features
Individually control oscillators
Two oscillators with individual control of sync and tuning parameters.
Get the frequency band you want
High-pass, low-pass and band-pass filters with slopes of 12dB and 24dB.
Three distortion modes
Classic Bass Station, new fuzz or a mixture of both.
Monophonic and paraphonic
Monophonic and paraphonic modes with individual glide control.
Adaptable modulation system
Four-by-eight modulation matrix that enables complex alteration and routing. The Circuit Mono Station LFOs allow you to decouple synced LFOs from key sync, perfect for making widely evolving musical phrases.
Patches at your fingertips
Load and save up to 64 patches on the device.
Three sequencer tracks
Two oscillator sequencers and one modulation sequencer. Hit Shift Sessions to send either Osc 1, Osc 2 or the Mod Seq to the CV/GATE output.
Connect to hardware and software
CV, Gate and modulation outputs for controlling separate hardware. Connect and sync to your music software and MIDI-compatible hardware. Modulate, evolve and process your source through the audio input.
Store unlimited sounds
Backup patches and sessions with Components. Learn more about Components here.
Specifications
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)
- 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
- 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
