- Sampler & vocoder
- Adding samples via Wooveconnect
- Levels, VU Metering & monitoring
- Sampling sounds from the audio input
- Skip-back sampling (resampling)
- Vocoder
- Working with slices
- Auto-slicing
- Real-time pitch and time warping
- Amen chop tutorial
- Multi-sampled instruments and percussion
- Using the two sample banks
- Using samples and kits in your songs
- Using single-cycle AKWF samples
- Using Amiga Tracker samples
- Using Teenage Engineering OP-1 / OP-Z sample kits
- Kit and/or master sample initialization
- Backing up sample kits
- Auto-space reclaimer
- Limitations
- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Sampler & vocoder
Sampler & vocoder

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.
You can sample via the line input, import samples via Wooveconnect or have the Woovebox resample its own audio. You can restore or dump kits via MIDI and via Wooveconnect, while Wooveconnect also allows you to import .WAV files as well as TE OP-1/OP-Z drumkit .AIFF files.
The sampler supports advanced features like skip-back recording, multi-sampled instruments, slices (including auto-slicing), AKAI-style pitch shifting, time stretching and automatic tempo-to-pitch matching.
Samples act like regular oscillators in the unified synth engine for ultimate flexibility in sound design.
You may add samples recorded in WAV format, via Wooveconnect, by simply dragging and dropping them into your wirelessly connected device. You may also import Teenage Engineering OP-1 / OP-Z sample ("drum") kit AIFF files.
VU ("volume unit") metering is a useful tool to ensure the levels coming into the audio input are not too soft, nor too loud. This is important for both sampling from the audio input, as well as using external audio as oscillators in the synthesizer and DJ FX looping.
Hold the value knob and short-press 14/A6/Sampler button to access the sampler. If needed, repeat this until you are in sampler ("SMPL") mode and not, for example, in vocoder mode ("VCdr").
Your Woovebox continuously records all audio for later use in the sampler. Launching the sampler stops the recording. The historic audio goes back 11.8 seconds or whatever the free space allows for - whichever is the lesser of the two.
Hold the value knob and short-press 14/A6/Sampler button to access the sampler. If needed, repeat this until you are in vocoder ("VCdr") mode.
When you import a sample into a kit, it is appended as a slice to any existing sample for that kit to become one new long "master" sample.
Your Woovebox can auto-slice a bigger slice into smaller slices for you.
Slices can be pitch shifted and time stretched in real-time, with a sound that is reminiscent of early samplers by AKAI, such as the S950 and S1000.
The Amen break is a seminal six-second drum solo that originated from the song "Amen, Brother" by the 1960s funk and soul group The Winstons. This iconic drum pattern, played by Gregory Coleman, has left an indelible mark on music history, particularly within the realms of electronic music, hip-hop, and jungle.
The Woovebox sampler supports multi-sampled instruments and percussion kits.
Two sample banks are available with 1m02s worth of sampling time each for a total of 2m04s, however you may only use and work on one one sample bank per song.
Your Woovebox' sampler is surprisingly versatile in the way it allows you to incorporate samples into your songs - from seamlessly integrating as custom oscillators, to playing back multi-sampled instruments or tempo-corrected drumloops.
Kristoffer Ekstrand, aka Adventure Kid, a Swedish artist, has made available a massive library of single-cycle waveforms.
The Commodore Amiga has had an enormous influence on electronic music.
Your Woovebox is partially compatible with Teenage Engineering OP-1 / OP-Z sample kit (aka "drum kit") AIFF files. Such kits can be found from different sources such as the OP1.FUN website, the SoundPacks.com website and others.
Through the context menu, you can initialize a sample kit in two ways;
To back up your sample kit, in the sampler, select your kit US.01-US.16 (hold play, and press 1-16). Then select and action "duMP Kit" from the context menu.
Slices also inform your Woovebox about what part of the master sample should be retained; if part of a master sample is not used in any of the slices, it is automatically deleted to free up sample memory once you exit sampler/vocoder mode.
The following limitations currently apply to the Woovebox sampler;
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- Patch backup (under Wooveconnect 2)
On your Woovebox, select the track (1/Cd-16/A8) for which you wish to backup the patch for.
- Turning off Wooveconnect CC messages (under MIDI, Sync and connecting other gear)
Device mirroring is off by default, if the device was not booted up with BLE enabled.
- Using Wooveconnect once connected (under Wooveconnect 2)
Uploads are initiated by dragging and dropping .WAV, .AIFF or .SYX files into Wooveconnect.
- Setting up a MIDI connection (under Wooveconnect 2)
If using wireless MIDI, Wooveconnect will attempt to automatically detect your Woovebox and attach to the right ports.
- Uploading new samples (under Wooveconnect 2)
Please note that just like using the sampler, any uploads or changes are committed only once you switch away from the sampler.
- Sampler & vocoder
- Adding samples via Wooveconnect
- Levels, VU Metering & monitoring
- Sampling sounds from the audio input
- Skip-back sampling (resampling)
- Vocoder
- Working with slices
- Auto-slicing
- Real-time pitch and time warping
- Amen chop tutorial
- Multi-sampled instruments and percussion
- Using the two sample banks
- Using samples and kits in your songs
- Using single-cycle AKWF samples
- Using Amiga Tracker samples
- Using Teenage Engineering OP-1 / OP-Z sample kits
- Kit and/or master sample initialization
- Backing up sample kits
- Auto-space reclaimer
- Limitations