- How to approach
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Advanced
You have used grooveboxes or DAWs before. You may even a performance or two under your belt. With the Woovebox, a trove of grooves, unique sounds, syncopated rhythms and - if you're open to them - "happy accidents", is waiting for you
Many of the same things you are familiar with in other grooveboxes or DAWs, are possible on the Woovebox. Often they are not only possible, but allow a whole new take on a subject.
Sound design tutorials for Serum etc. tend to be replicable in the Woovebox engine. Digital audio and MIDI export - full mix or individual stems - is at your disposal via Wooveconnect. Performing your songs with (or without) an external controller is also possible, while the Woovebox happily integrates with (or drives) other gear via MIDI, analog sync out. It can incorporate incoming audio as oscillators, or route it to its DJ FX buffers for looping and other effects.
For you, the learning curve centers around;
- understanding how tracks have their own patterns
- understanding how a track's patterns are made, sequenced (including conditionally) and - optionally - chained
- understanding how each track has an associated timbre
- understanding the basics of the synthesizer architecture and how to perform basic patch sound design (for example changing an envelope or LFO)
- (crucial to get to the core of the Woovebox) understanding how to use tracks and their patterns in Song mode via fragments
- understanding the synthesizer architecture in-depth, dissecting presets that are interesting to you
- understanding how to program a fragment's DJ and buffer FX
- understanding and setting up connectivity, gear integration, live mode scenes and other live performance capabilities and considerations
It cannot be overstated how important it is, to get to a point where you are comfortable using Song mode and fragments. More than any other groovebox, the entire workflow centers around (and works towards) Song mode.
Finally, when creating your patterns, try to "do more with less"; make liberal use of things like conditionals ("when"/"do"), as well as auto chord inversions, etc. Doing so facilitates happy accidents and makes changing up a song easier. Combined with the chord following feature, working like this can almost "improvise" on your behalf or yield "high level" generative sequences.
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- Intermediates (under How to approach)
For you, the learning curve centers around: understanding how tracks have their own patterns.
- Beginners (under How to approach)
understanding how to automate build up of a song in Song mode using the basics of fragments.
- Pages (under Tracks)
This is the most important page where a pattern's steps can be modified in detail.
- Context menu (under Patterns)
'StEP LEn' (step length in milliseconds) shows how long one step takes on this track in milliseconds.
- 15. SL.SL Slice Select (under Osc1 and Osc2 oscillator page)
Slice select specifies which sample slice should be selected when a note is played.