Noodling on the Novation Circuit

I've had an original Novation Circuit groovebox for a long time now, and was under the impression that it no longer worked. A conversation about live hardware sequencing this week prompted me to try it out again, and to my surprise, it appears to have fixed itself. I don't understand why it works again, but rather than dwell on it, I'm happy to have a groovebox again.

In celebration, here is a random, largely unedited clip of me trying to make a random song on the groovebox. It's unnecessarily long, and it's come to my attention that some commentary might be nice. Nevertheless, it does a reasonably good job of capturing the process of going from an empty sequence to something that sounds surprisingly like music.

I'm tracking the Novation Circuit directly into a field recorder for the audio, the video was recorded on my phone, and the final crappy mix-down happened in Ardour 6 on Pop! OS.