Boot modes

By holding down one or more buttons while turning on the device, your Woovebox can be put into several different modes and special states.

1/Cd Bluetooth® LE enabled

To start your Woovebox with Bluetooth® LE enabled, keep the 1/Cd key pressed while switching on the device. The display reads 'boot bLE' instead of the usual boot up sequence.

2/bS Bluetooth® LE enable in compatibility mode

To start your Woovebox with Bluetooth® LE enabled in compatibility mode, keep the 2/bS key pressed while switching on the device. The display reads 'boot bLE' instead of the usual boot up sequence.

Compatibility mode works around some severe historic bugs in some Android and iOS phones by permitting looser timings and avoiding extended advertising packets. For example, your Woovebox will advertise itself as "WB" rather than a longer name with unique identifier, just to keep the advertising packet small enough to fit in a single packet.

3/Ld Fast Bluetooth® LE mode

To start your Woovebox with Fast Bluetooth® LE enabled, keep the 3/Ld key pressed while switching on the device. The display reads 'FaSt bLE' instead of the usual boot up sequence.

This mode allows you to transfer data at greatly improved speeds from the latest Android phones to your Woovebox. For example, samples, sample kits and firmware uploads should finish in a few seconds. Data transfer from your Woovebox to your Android phone still happens at normal speeds. Please note that this mode may be less suited for real-time MIDI data.

2/bS + value Recovery mode

In the very unlikely event of some sort of catastrophic data corruption causing a boot loop, the device can be booted with BLE compatibility mode enabled, but without loading any data (songs, samples) and with its sound engine disabled. To do so, hold the 2/bS key and value knob pressed in while powering up the device.

3/Ld + value Delete all samples

Please note that the following procedure will cause all sample data on the device to be lost!

To delete all samples on your Woovebox, keep the 3/Ld key as well as value knob pressed while switching on the device.

4/Ar Host (Central) Bluetooth® LE mode

Your Woovebox is one of a select few pieces of music gear on the market that can act as a host / "central" for other Bluetooth® devices.

Enable this mode to directly connect MIDI over Bluetooth® LE devices (such as wireless MIDI controller keyboards), or human interface devices (HIDs) such as standard Bluetooth® PC keyboards, remotes and mice.

To start your Woovebox with BLE enabled in compatibility mode, keep the 4/Ar key pressed while switching on the device. The display reads 'HoSt bLE' instead of the usual boot up sequence.

4/Ar + value Factory reset

Please note that the following procedure will cause all data (songs, samples, patches) on the device to be lost!

To reset your Woovebox to its factory settings, keep the 4/Ar key as well as value knob pressed while switching on the device.

5/Ki Boosted screen brightness / LED test / firmware version

By keeping 5/ki pressed while turning the device on, screen and LED brightness can be temporarily increased from its default brightness. This may be useful if the default brightness is insufficient (for example in sunny outdoor scenarios). Turn the value knob to change the brightness. Press the value knob to continue the boot sequence (which should normally amount to a 1-2 second delay before dropping into Song mode). The device will display the firmware version it is running, until the boot sequence is complete.

6/Sn Increase capacitive button sensitivity

By keeping 6/Sn pressed while turning the device on, sensitivity of the capacitive buttons can be temporarily increased.

This may be useful if you find the capactive play and write buttons do not reliably register your touch (for example, because your have very dry fingers/thumbs or because you have callused fingers/thumbs).

7/hh Microphone Calibration

By keeping 7/hh pressed while turning the device on and then immediately releasing 7/hh, the audio port can be re-calibrated for a specific (unamplified) microphone you wish to use.

Perform this procedure if you are changing microphones, or if you can hear any sort of buzz or hum in microphone recordings. You do not need to re-calibrate when swapping between microphone and line-in source, as long as you keep using the same microphone.

Before doing this procedure, please insert the microphone you wish to calibrate for, disconnect the Woovebox from any other cabling, and ensure the environment is quiet so that the microphone records only silence.

Calibration takes only a couple of seconds, during which the screen and all LEDs wil be off. After the procedure the device will boot as normal.

10/A2 Enable remote control expander mode

To start your Woovebox with remote control expander mode enabled, hold 10/A2. Remote control expander mode allows almost any MIDI device to control your Woovebox remotely, turning that device into a powerful workstation.

12/A4 Play stop protection

(firmware 2435+) By keeping 12/A4 pressed while turning the device on, playback is no longer stopped by pressing the play button. Use this mode if you are worried of accidentally stopping playback (for example in a live situation using Live mode) by accidental touching of the play touch area. Playback can be stopped by switching to Song mode (which is a dual button gesture and therefore unlikely to happen accidentally).

13/A5 Demo mode; disable song restore & autosave

By keeping 13/A5 pressed while turning the device on, your Woovebox will start with an "empty" song, while autosave is turned off. This mode is perfect for quickly showing a friend how easy it is to create a song from scratch, while not affecting any of your existing songs.

Please note that a manual save option will become available in the context menu of Song mode's 'GLob' page (firmware 2421+).

14/A6/Sampler Demo mode; disable autosave

By keeping 14/A6/Sampler pressed while turning the device on, autosave is turned off. This mode is perfect for tweaking your song non-destructively, for example for passing your Woovebox to a curious friend, without having to worry about them destroying your songs.

Please note that a manual save option will become available in the context menu of Song mode's 'GLob' page (firmware 2421+).