Learning how to operate the Woovebox is surprisingly easy, quick and intuitive. Basic navigation is consistent, with only a few basic gestures and button combos to learn. However, the Woovebox is an extremely deep, open ended device. Rather than an appliance that "does one thing", it should be thought of as an entire studio and sandbox. Knowing what to focus on first, depending on your prior experience, is key.

These are the absolute basics you need to know. However, even if you are intimately familiar with grooveboxes already, also going through the quick start tutorial at least once is highly recommended.

This is a super quick tutorial for making your first complete song, demonstrating a full workflow, without going too deep just yet. Even if you are familiar with grooveboxes, going through this tutorial at least once is highly recommended; understanding the workflow leading up to the core of the Woovebox - Song mode - is the key to "getting" the Woovebox and making it all "click".

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.

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.

When two synth patches love each other very much...

The Woovebox DNA feature can be thought of as 32-instrument timbrality with an extremely powerful (helical) twist. At its most basic level, it allows you to define and use two patches per track, providing you with 32 instruments per song. But that's just the beginning...

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 dedicated functionality 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" allows you to create and arrange complete, complex songs, rather than just more basic individual patterns or loops. You can even program internal and external audio looping and overdubbing, making Song mode an extremely powerful live performance tool as well.

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 includes a powerful sampler with 2m04s worth of total sampling time across a maximum of 512 samples ("slices"). Your Woovebox is also equipped with a vocoder, which allows you to imprint your voice onto anything the internal synthesizer can produce.

There is an enormous amount of audio generated by the Woovebox engine. Making sure the right audio stands out at the right time is the art of "mastering". Mastering is all about making sure each element of your song is audible when it needs to, while reducing any overlap / clashing / fighting-for-the-same-frequencies (aka "mud" or "muddiness") with other elements as much as possible. The mastering on your Woovebox is very, very extensive and is sufficient for producing "radio ready" songs.

Your Woovebox comes with various ways of emulating vintage gear, no matter the time period, no matter 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. 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.

Your Woovebox comes equipped with a Hall effect sensor that lets you use magnets to effect/accentuate played notes. This allows for expressive playing during live performances (for example, mimicking the ethereal sound of a Theremin).

The Woovebox is an incredibly versatile device that can help you re-create almost any complex music production and sound design technique.

If you made a mistake or changed your mind on a decision, you will be happy to know your Woovebox has some limited undo functionality.

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, physical MIDI in (models 15B2 and up), analog sync out and wireless MIDI in/out. It can effectively function as the "brain" of a larger setup. Conversely, it can act as a multi-timbral sound module or use a controller to enhance its control surface and features.

Remote control expander mode turns almost any MIDI-out capable keyboard, controller or control surface into an advanced standalone workstation, synthesizer and performance instrument. It is enabled by holding 10/A2 (hold 1/Cd as well to enable Wireless MIDI over Bluetooth). If you wish to use physical MIDI In (on device revision 15 B2 or above), enable physical MIDI for your song via 9/A1/Md.Pt set to "In" on your Song's GLob page,.

Your Woovebox supports MIDI in and out over Bluetooth® LE (Low Energy), allowing it to communicate with almost any MIDI over Bluetooth device, such as MIDI controllers, phones, tablets, DAWs as well as the Wooveconnect service and app.

You can connect most regular Bluetooth® 4.0+ typing keyboards (Bluetooth Low Energy, aka Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth LE or BLE) to your Woovebox for more extended, advanced access to navigation, playability and short-cut options. Please note that Bluetooth Classic-only devices are not supported.

Your Woovebox' battery should last 9h+ (OG and SE) / 10.5h+ (Pro) or more on a single charge , when performing continuous playback. This is reduced to 5h or more with Bluetooth enabled. Some actions may further influence battery life, such as regular saving, MIDI output, Sync output.

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.