Guides, tutorials and docs
Get to know your Woovebox and music production, from beginner to expert level.
You don't have to know much about music or music theory to start using your Woovebox effectively. And learning how to operate the Woovebox is - as you will see - surprisingly easy, quick and intuitive. Your Woovebox is, however, an extremely deep device with significant sonic production potential, should you choose to tap it (but you don't have to of course!). If you do though, it's a great way to develop your own signature sound and style, while keeping Gear Acquisition Syndrome ("GAS") at bay.
No patience? Just take note of the following, and you may well be able to figure out your Woovebox on your own. If you learn better by 'doing', please also see the quick start guide and video.
This is a super quick guide to making your first song, without going too deep just yet.
Your song's BPM setting (1/Cd on the Song's GLob page) flows through to the tempo of many things, from LFO speed divisors to the delay effects; a change in BPM will never throw off any tempo-based aspects of your song.
Your Woovebox allows you to work with 16 tracks per song. A track plays a single instrument (for example a bass or synthesizer lead) or a "kit" (for example a drum kit, or a number of pre-defined vocal chant samples, etc.).
If a Track is the member of a band or orchestra, then a pattern is a page of sheet music that each member is reading. Each track can play up to 16 unique patterns, and patterns may be chained if needed. A pattern itself is made up of a maximum of 16 steps. When a pattern plays (press the play button to start or stop playing), each track steps through these steps
If you prefer to record your patterns by live playing, you can do so in two ways.
An essential part of creating songs on your Woovebox that sound polished and varied, is conditional triggering and modification.
Chords play an important role not just in music in general, but particularly in the way your Woovebox generates notes and plays back your patterns. So much so that your Woovebox has a dedicated chord ('Cd') track.
An arpeggio is a musical technique where the notes of a chord are played in a sequence, rather than all at once. This creates a sweeping, flowing sound that adds movement and interest to the music.
Scales allow you to more easily dial in a musical flavor or mood for your chords and melodies. Your Woovebox supports many scales, from well known scales to more exotic scales.
The final - and most rewarding - piece to "click" on your Woovebox, is how to write complete songs from many, just a few, or even just one pattern. This guide explains how song writing works on the Woovebox and how it was specifically designed to break you out of “cool loop” jail and propel you into song-writing with ease.
Your Woovebox is the perfect tool for exploring a range of musical genres. Whether you're an expert producer or just a beginner, your Woovebox has the capabilities to help you make the music you and your audience love.
Your Woovebox comes with a number of presets in various sound categories. You are highly encouraged to use these as a starting point for your own sounds.
As opposed to most other groovebox, your Woovebox allows for deep, sophisticated sound design, offering a massive sonic palette of sounds. Its powerful synth engine can synthesize - from scratch - anything; from EDM-oriented instruments to acoustic piano and drums.
Non-chord tracks can still be made to play multiple notes at a time (up to four-note chords). This can be accomplished by sound-designing a paraphonic patch, or choosing one of the paraphonic presets.
Multi-instrument mode is an alternative way of working with tracks that has a number of benefits, depending on your workflow preferences, genre preferences, and/or prior experience with music gear.
As opposed to many other grooveboxes, your Woovebox has enough tracks and voices to add that little bit of extra polish to your songs through risers, fallers, sweeps and just general "ear candy".
In Live mode, your Woovebox becomes a performance instrument and classic groovebox. Live mode allows you to improvise melodies, switch tracks on and off real-time, or trigger "scenes" (pre-programmed track behaviors) to build up and a song dynamically as part of a live performance.
"Song mode" in is a feature that allows you to create and arrange complete, complex songs, rather than just more basic individual patterns or loops.
Your Woovebox includes a powerful sampler. It is able to sample sounds via its line input, import samples via Bluetooth or resample its own internal synthesizer. It even supports advanced features like multi-sampled instruments, slices (including auto-slicing), pitch shifting, time stretching and automatic tempo-to-pitch matching.
Sidechaining, gating, ducking and compression and limiting have important roles in music production, both in final mix clarity and creative use.
Your Woovebox offers a great number of ways to clean up your final mix or give it more punch;
Your Woovebox comes with various ways of emulating vintage gear, whether analog or digital.
Guided randomization is a great way to get inspired, whether it is randomizing a pattern, entire pattern chains or even synthesizer patches (as of firmware 2682). Your Woovebox comes with a number of tools to quickly come up with something unique, yet coherent as the basis for further shaping and refining.
The Woovebox is an incredibly versatile device that can help you re-create complex music production and sound design techniques. With its powerful capabilities, you can create advanced tremolo and vibrato effects as well as intricate delay effects to give your music an extra layer of depth. Learn to use the Woovebox to its fullest potential and bring your music production to the next level!
By holding down one or more buttons while turning on the device, your Woovebox can be put into several different modes and special states.
Despite is tiny size, your Woovebox can control your other gear's playback and audio via audio in, physical MIDI out, sync out and MIDI over Bluetooth LE.
Your Woovebox supports MIDI in and out over BLE, allowing it to communicate with your DAW as well as the Wooveconnect service.
Your Woovebox' battery should last 10h or more on a single charge, when performing continuous playback. This is reduced to 5h or more with Bluetooth on. Some actions may further influence battery life, such as regular saving.
Your Woovebox was designed to - literally - punch well above its weight in terms of bang-for-buck and features, but there are some hardware quirks and limitations owing to its portability and low power consumption.
Though powerful for its size, like all other grooveboxes and workstations, your Woovebox does has a finite amount of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) resources for simultaneous real-time synthesis, effects and sample playback. Please note that rendering a song or its individual stems to a WAV file via Wooveconnect, is not subject to any DSP resource limitations.
We would all like to reduce electronic waste as much as possible, so here are some important guidelines to keep your Woovebox in tip-top shape;
Wooveconnect automatically checks for firmware updates, and - with your permission - downloads them and uploads them to your Woovebox.