- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Learning the Woovebox
- The very basics
- Quick start guide and video
- Tempo and BPM
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- Live pattern recording
- Conditional triggering and modification
- Chords
- Arpeggios
- Scales and modes
- Full song writing
- Genres
- Presets
- Sound design
- Paraphonic parts
- Multi-instrument mode
- Risers, fallers, sweeps & ear candy
- Live mode
- Song mode
- Sampler
- 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
- Wireless MIDI over BLE
- Battery and charging
- Hardware quirks and limitations
- Understanding DSP load
- Looking after your Woovebox
- Firmware updates
- Quick start guide and video
- Chaining patterns
Chaining patterns
The Woovebox is all about "doing more with less". As such you are highly encouraged to prioritize creating variation through chord sequences, conditionals and using Song mode, rather than using more patterns.
However, in cases where a single 16-step pattern is too limiting (for example if you wish to record a long solo or melody), you can chain up to 16 patterns to create longer patterns, up to one long sequence of 256 steps per track.
You can change the current pattern by holding play and pressing 1-16 to change to pattern 1-16.
To chain the current pattern to another, use the value knob to switch to the "Pattern" ("Pttn") page. Change the "Chain next" ("Ch.ne") parameter under the 3/Ld key to reflect the pattern number that should play next after the current pattern. "SELF" means that the next pattern to be played should be the current pattern itself, which is the default behavior.
If you wish to repeat a pattern in a chain a few times before it switches to the next pattern, you can specify how many times the pattern should be repeated by changing the "chain repeat" ("Ch.rP") parameter under the 4/Ar key to reflect the amount of times you wish to loop the pattern before it switches to the next.
Via the context menu on the pattern ("Pttn") page of every track, you can also automate all this. You can quickly chain the next pattern ("Chn Next"), the next three patterns ("Chn 4"), the next seven patterns ("Chn 8") or chain all sixteen patterns ("Chn All").
You may also be interested in...
- The Woovebox song writing recipe (under Full song writing)
These individual patterns on individual tracks are then served together as song fragments in Song mode.
- With conditional triggering and modification (under Example)
The exact same basic 16-step (1-bar) pattern with all elements being conditionally triggered and modified.
- 2. Pt.Ln Pattern Length (under Patterns)
Trying to program or modify these steps will result in a "ChnG Len" error message, asking you to change the Pt.Ln setting first.
- 3. Ch.ne Chain Next (under Patterns)
A pattern number of "Self" will just keep playing the current pattern into infinity.
- 4. Ch.rP Chain Repeat (under Patterns)
Specifies how many times the current pattern should play before switching to the next pattern (as specified by Ch.nE).
- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Learning the Woovebox
- The very basics
- Quick start guide and video
- Tempo and BPM
- Tracks
- Patterns
- Live pattern recording
- Conditional triggering and modification
- Chords
- Arpeggios
- Scales and modes
- Full song writing
- Genres
- Presets
- Sound design
- Paraphonic parts
- Multi-instrument mode
- Risers, fallers, sweeps & ear candy
- Live mode
- Song mode
- Sampler
- 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
- Wireless MIDI over BLE
- Battery and charging
- Hardware quirks and limitations
- Understanding DSP load
- Looking after your Woovebox
- Firmware updates