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- Quick start guide and video
- Tempo and BPM
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- Live pattern recording
- Conditional triggering and modification
- Chords
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- Scales and modes
- Genres
- Presets
- Sound design
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- Multi-instrument mode
- Risers, fallers, sweeps & ear candy
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- Lo-fi & vintage analog and digital emulation
- Randomization
- Advanced techniques
- Undo
- Boot modes
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- Battery and charging
- Hardware quirks and limitations
- Understanding DSP load
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- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Tempo and BPM
Tempo and BPM
Your song's BPM setting (1/Cd on the Song's GLob page) flows through to the tempo of many things, from LFO speed divisors to the delay effects; a change in BPM will never throw off any tempo-based aspects of your song.
Everything syncs up throughout the synthesis engine, pattern playback and song mode. This makes your songs sound like well-planned, evolving pieces of music. Sync-locked LFOs can help with subtle build-ups, textures and "ear candy".
Settings that govern tempo (such as LFO rates) or length, often have their settings expressed in terms of quarter notes ("qn" or "q") or bars ("b"). A bar is 16 quarter notes.
Pattern length and BPM divisor
By changing the BPM speed divisor and pattern length, you can influence both the speed by which a pattern is played back, as well as change its time signature.
This allows you to have a pattern play back over a longer period than just four beats per pattern, or use different time signatures to the rest of the patterns, tracks or songs.
You can configure the BPM speed divisor ('b.div' under 1/Cd) and pattern length ('Pt.Ln' under 2/bS) on the 'Pttn' page for each of the 16 patterns for each of the 16 tracks.
Changing time signatures and pattern lengths is an incredibly useful tool to spice up track, particularly when leaving the chord track to play 4/4 . For example, try setting pattern length to 12 for a bassline or supplemental lead track. This yields a 12/16 (e.g. 6/8 time signature).
Using other values (particularly prime numbers such 11 and 13) can also yield very interesting, complex and evolving bass lines, melodies or rythm tracks when contrasted with other "regular" 4/4 (e.g. length 16) tracks in your song. You should notice that these tracks will sound complex and interesting, but never quite random. Think more IDM than Avant-garde.
You may also be interested in...
- "Take the Leap" (single pattern challenge) (under Sound demos)
Opening up of delay, reverb and attack by linking filter's cut-off.
- Slicing up the Amen break (under Sampler)
The Amen break, as well as other iconic breaks can be found in this sample pack by OaSyntax on Freesound.org.
- Guides, tutorials and docs (under Support, guides & tutorials)
Get to know your Woovebox and music production, from beginner to expert level.
- MIDI, Sync and connecting other gear (under Guides, tutorials and docs)
- Sampler (under Guides, tutorials and docs)
- Guides, tutorials and docs
- The very basics
- Quick start guide and video
- Tempo and BPM
- Tracks
- Patterns
- Live pattern recording
- Conditional triggering and modification
- Chords
- Arpeggios
- Scales and modes
- Genres
- Presets
- Sound design
- Paraphonic parts
- Multi-instrument mode
- Risers, fallers, sweeps & ear candy
- Live mode
- Song mode
- Sampler
- Sidechaining, gating, ducking and compression
- Lo-fi & vintage analog and digital emulation
- Randomization
- Advanced techniques
- Undo
- Boot modes
- MIDI, Sync and connecting other gear
- Wireless MIDI over BLE
- Battery and charging
- Hardware quirks and limitations
- Understanding DSP load
- Looking after your Woovebox
- Firmware updates