- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Learning the Woovebox
- The very basics
- Quick start tutorial and video
- Tempo and BPM
- Tracks
- Patterns
- Live pattern recording
- Conditional triggering and modification
- Chords
- Arpeggios
- Scales and modes
- Genres
- Patches and Presets
- Sound design
- Paraphonic parts
- Multi-instrument mode
- Risers, fallers, sweeps & ear candy
- Live mode
- Song mode
- Full song writing
- Sampler & vocoder
- Sidechaining, gating, ducking and compression
- Mastering
- Lo-fi & vintage analog and digital emulation
- Randomization
- Hall effect sensor playing
- Advanced techniques
- Undo
- Boot modes
- MIDI, Sync and connecting other gear
- Remote control expander mode
- Wireless MIDI
- Battery and charging
- Hardware quirks and limitations
- Understanding DSP load
- Looking after your Woovebox
- Firmware updates
- Tempo and BPM
- Pattern length and BPM divisor
Pattern length and BPM divisor
By changing the BPM speed divisor and pattern length, you can influence both the speed by which a pattern is played back, as well as change its time signature.
This allows you to have a pattern play back over a longer period than just four beats per pattern, or use different time signatures to the rest of the patterns, tracks or songs.
You can configure the BPM speed divisor ('b.div' under 1/Cd) and pattern length ('Pt.Ln' under 2/bS) on the 'Pttn' page for each of the 16 patterns for each of the 16 tracks.
Changing time signatures and pattern lengths is an incredibly useful tool to spice up track, particularly when leaving the chord track to play 4/4 . For example, try setting pattern length to 12 for a bassline or supplemental lead track. This yields a 12/16 (e.g. 6/8 time signature).
Using other values (particularly prime numbers such 11 and 13) can also yield very interesting, complex and evolving bass lines, melodies or rythm tracks when contrasted with other "regular" 4/4 (e.g. length 16) tracks in your song. You should notice that these tracks will sound complex and interesting, but never quite random. Think more IDM than Avant-garde.
You may also be interested in...
- Auditioning (under Tracks)
If the current (or last) selected track was the lead (Ld) track, pressing 1-16 will allow you to play the lead sound.
- 5. Mu.Ln Mute length (under Patterns)
If 'Mu.Ln' + 'UM.Ln' does not the equal pattern length (Pt.Ln), interesting polymeters can eventuate.
- Mastering (under Guides, tutorials and docs)
Use the compressor / limiter to level-out loudness for individual tracks.
- Sidechaining (under Sidechaining, gating, ducking and compression)
A more subtle use of sidechaining, is using to help make specific tracks of your song cut through the mix.
- Glob Gobal page (under Tracks)
The 'GLob' (global) page configures some important global behaviors for the track.
- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Learning the Woovebox
- The very basics
- Quick start tutorial and video
- Tempo and BPM
- Tracks
- Patterns
- Live pattern recording
- Conditional triggering and modification
- Chords
- Arpeggios
- Scales and modes
- Genres
- Patches and Presets
- Sound design
- Paraphonic parts
- Multi-instrument mode
- Risers, fallers, sweeps & ear candy
- Live mode
- Song mode
- Full song writing
- Sampler & vocoder
- Sidechaining, gating, ducking and compression
- Mastering
- Lo-fi & vintage analog and digital emulation
- Randomization
- Hall effect sensor playing
- Advanced techniques
- Undo
- Boot modes
- MIDI, Sync and connecting other gear
- Remote control expander mode
- Wireless MIDI
- Battery and charging
- Hardware quirks and limitations
- Understanding DSP load
- Looking after your Woovebox
- Firmware updates