Program a kick drum

Turn the Value knob to the left until the lower display reads "Seq". You are now on the "sequencer" page of the kickdrum track.

Make sure you're on the kick track's sequencer page ("Seq" ). The sequencer page is where events (notes, chords, sample triggers) are added, edited or deleted.

Press play to start playing our empty kick drum track pattern. While playing, you will see a blinking "play head" to indicate the position, running from left to right, top to bottom. As your Woovebox steps through the pattern, any steps that the play head encounters that contain programmed kick drum (lit up) are played back. Any steps that do not contain a kick drum (not lit up) are ignored at that moment in time. Press play again to stop playback.

The last sounded note/sound is programmed into a step by holding write and short-pressing the key that corresponds to the step 1-16 you want the sound programmed into.

Right now, no kick drums are recorded at all, so playing the pattern back will not produce any sound; let's change that. Program a simple four-to-the floor pattern like so;

  • Press any of the 1-16 keys to audition the kick drum. Depending on the selected kick drum patch, the kick drum may sound different depending on the key you press.
  • Once you auditioned a kick drum you like;
  • hold write and short-press key 1
  • still holding write, short-press key 5
  • still holding write, short-press key 9
  • and still holding write, short-press key 13.

A typical "four-to-the-floor" pattern with a kick programmed on each beat.

You have now programmed your chosen kick drum sound onto steps 1, 5, 9 and 13; a standard "four-to-the-floor" pattern.

If you made a mistake and wish to delete a kick drum from a step, simply hold write and short-press the key corresponding to the step (LED lit up) you wish to clear (LED no longer lit up). You may also edit one or multiple programmed steps in-depth by holding a step (more on that further on).

Now press play to hear your kick drum pattern being played back to you. Press Play again to stop the playback. You may have also noticed that pressing play caused your song to be automatically saved.

Feel free, of course, to add or remove kick drums as you please. Conditional triggering (for example on every 4th playthrough), off-step triggering (later or early than precisely one step), as well as swing are also possible.

Using the randomizer

If you lack inspiration or need to get something going quickly, your Woovebox comes with an "intelligent" randomization feature. On the "Seq" page, choose and action the "rand Pttn" context menu option. Your Woovebox will now create a random pattern that fits the intended behavior ("bEhv" under 7/hh on the track's "Glob" page) of the track. In this case it will provide you with a plausible kick pattern, but in case of other tracks it will provide you with chords, melodies, basslines, etc. as appropriate. For more information, see the randomization section.


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