- 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
- 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
- Full song writing
- The sauce
The Woovebox “secret sauce”
Conditional trigger / chord-follow / tempo-sync all the things!
In traditional DAWs and grooveboxes you typically have to explicitly specify a lot of things manually; exact notes/pitches, exact timings, exact triggering. On the Woovebox these aspects are - preferably - algorithmically inferred. This means that, wherever possible, your Woovebox tries to make musical sense of the fewer pieces of data.
The result, as you likely have already found, is something called emergent complexity; simple rules interact to form a complex system that exhibits complex behaviour. It allows just a few, simple, well-considered patterns to sound complex, refined, polished and intentional, particularly once combined in your final song. All while taking much less time to put together and polish. Working any other way would be unnecessarily laborious and would get frustrating quickly on a device with just 16 buttons and a single encoder.
Using Randomisation
The Woovebox is uniquely suited to random generation, because everything interacts and adapts to everything else to “make musical sense”. So if you, like many, suffer from “blank project paralysis”, use randomisation to get you started; whether it’s chords, arpeggios, basslines, patches. At worst you won’t like the result and roll the dice again. At best you find gold. But most likely you will quickly find a potential diamond in the rough - something that you can shape into something you do like and can make your own.
You may also be interested in...
- Floyd Steinberg: "Woovebox: step-by-step guide and brief review" (under Video resources, tutorials and reviews)
Also see the Woovebox drive some other synths, while playing its part in the ensemble.
- Dynamics ('dyna') page (under Sidechaining, gating, ducking and compression)
- 14. chor Chorus Send (under Glob Gobal page)
Specifies the amount of signal to send to the chorus unit.
- 13. rEvb Reverb Send (under Glob Gobal page)
Specifies the amount of signal to send to the reverb unit.
- 3. ALGo Synthesis Algorithm (under Glob Gobal page)
Specifies the algorithm by which the oscillators for this track should be combined.
- 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
- 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