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- The very basics
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- Genres
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- Sound design
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- Multi-instrument mode
- Risers, fallers, sweeps & ear candy
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- Full song writing
- Sampler & vocoder
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- Advanced techniques
- Undo
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- Remote control expander mode
- Wireless MIDI
- Battery and charging
- Hardware quirks and limitations
- Understanding DSP load
- Looking after your Woovebox
- Firmware updates
- Quick start tutorial 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 using the "Chn" item. While holding write (and before actioning the item), you can use turning of the value knob to choose how many patterns you wish to chain.
You may also be interested in...
- 5. Mu.Ln Mute length (under Patterns)
Specifies how long the pattern should mute for, measured in 16th notes (irrespective of a pattern's BPM division setting!).
- "The Stars" (under Sound demos)
- MIDI Patch Changes (under MIDI, Sync and connecting other gear)
To select the MIDI patch number, set "Md.Pc"/"MIdI Pach" under 14/A6 on the Pttn page for each pattern.
- Program a kick drum (under Quick start tutorial and video)
Now press play to hear your kick drum pattern being played back to you.
- Patterns (under The very basics)
As your Woovebox steps through the pattern, any steps that the play head encounters that contain notes (lit up) are played.
- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Learning the Woovebox
- The very basics
- Quick start tutorial and video
- Tempo and BPM
- Tracks
- Patterns
- Live pattern recording
- Conditional triggering and modification
- Chords
- Arpeggios
- Scales and modes
- Genres
- Patches and Presets
- Sound design
- Paraphonic parts
- Multi-instrument mode
- Risers, fallers, sweeps & ear candy
- Live mode
- Song mode
- Full song writing
- Sampler & vocoder
- 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
- Remote control expander mode
- Wireless MIDI
- Battery and charging
- Hardware quirks and limitations
- Understanding DSP load
- Looking after your Woovebox
- Firmware updates