- Sound design
- Architecture
- Oscillators
- Algorithms
- Low Frequency Oscillators (LFOs)
- Envelope generators
- Filters
- Amplitude modulation
- Pitch modulation
- Panning & EQ
- Dynamics, Sidechaining, Gating, Ducking, Compression and Transient Shaping
- Distortion, Saturation, Bit-crushing
- Global Send Multi-effects
- DJ FX
- Wavetable Synthesis
- A word about authenticity
- Full documentation, guide and tutorial
- Sound design
Sound design
As opposed to most other groovebox, your Woovebox allows for deep, sophisticated sound design, offering a massive sonic palette of sounds. Its powerful synth engine can synthesize - from scratch - anything; from EDM-oriented instruments to acoustic piano and drums.
The Woovebox implements a novel unified synthesizer architecture.
A Woovebox voice is generated by combining up to two standard oscillators, one sine wave oscillator and - in some cases - white noise. The standard oscillators range from basic waveforms such as sine, saw, pulse and triangle waves, to more complex waveforms such as 5ths, supersaws, user-imported samples, delay taps and even live external audio.
The way your Woovebox combines the oscillators is determined by the algorithm selected ('ALGo'/'Syn ALGo'/3 on the 'GLob' page).
A number of dedicated low frequency oscillators exist to modulate things like amplitude, cut-off frequency and pitch.
Oscillator 1 and 2, as well as the filter come with an ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release) envelope generator for amplitude and frequency cut off respectively;
Each voice comes with a multi-mode filter, modeled on the analog Moog transistor ladder sound, with various "flavours" of filtering (low pass x 6, band pass x 4, high pass x 4, notch x 2). Each voice has a dedicated envelope generator and LFO for the cut-off frequency.
Your Woovebox comes with one dedicated ADSR amplitude envelope generator and one dedicated amplitude LFO for each oscillator.
Pitch modulation and modification plays an important role in the Woovebox' sound synthesis engine.
Your Woovebox provides you with extensive control over stereo positioning and tone shaping.
Each track comes with powerful dynamics shaping features that ensure a track sits well in a mix, and that that a track is audible at the right time in the right way in your song.
Each track has its own configurable distortion (choice of clipping or folding distortion), saturation and bit-crushing effects.
A multi-effects block exist with configurable reverb, chorus and two delay units.
The Song mode's per fragment DJ FX provide further important tools to design sounds with.
As of firmware 3.0, your Woovebox now includes wavetable synthesis.
In this day and age of massive sample libraries, it can often be tempting to resort to samples. However, synthesizing sounds from scratch can, depending on your goals, lend a subtle authenticity, warmth, liveliness and even nostalgia to a track that is hard (impossible) to capture in a static sample; samples - by their very nature - sound the same every time they are triggered, and that is not how analog or organic timbres truly sound.
You may also be interested in...
- "Skeleton Crew" (under Sound Demos)
- Using the two sample banks (under Sampler & vocoder)
Use SM.bK/SMPL banK/14/A6 on a song's GLob page to switch between bank 1 and bank 2.
- Cheat sheet (under Documentation)
These are the absolute essentials you need to operate your Woovebox.
- 6/Sn Increase capacitive button sensitivity (under Boot modes)
- Using samples and kits in your songs (under Sampler & vocoder)
- Sound design
- Architecture
- Oscillators
- Algorithms
- Low Frequency Oscillators (LFOs)
- Envelope generators
- Filters
- Amplitude modulation
- Pitch modulation
- Panning & EQ
- Dynamics, Sidechaining, Gating, Ducking, Compression and Transient Shaping
- Distortion, Saturation, Bit-crushing
- Global Send Multi-effects
- DJ FX
- Wavetable Synthesis
- A word about authenticity