- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Learning the Woovebox
- 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
- 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
- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Wireless MIDI
Wireless MIDI
Your Woovebox supports MIDI in and out over BLE, allowing it to communicate with your DAW as well as the Wooveconnect service.
To start your Woovebox with BLE enabled, keep the 1/Cd (or 2/bS for enhanced compatibility mode) key pressed while switching on the device. The display reads 'boot bLE'.
Once your device has booted up, you can proceed to pair your Woovebox with another device, and use the Wireless MIDI and data transfer capabilities.
Please remember that your Woovebox can only connect to one device at a time; if you need to connect to a device, please make sure your Woovebox is disconnected from any other device first.
Pairing your Woovebox
After pairing with your computer, tablet or phone, your Woovebox can be used as a regular MIDI device within other applications, or can be managed through the Wooveconnect app.
Your host device's BLE radio needs to be BLE 4.0 compatible, and please make sure that your Woovebox is not already accidentally connected to some other device; it can only handle one connection at a time and will not be visible to any other devices while it is already connected.
The stability of your MIDI over BLE connection is heavily dependent the quality of the drivers and quality operating system's BLE stack. Unfortunately this quality can be found lacking on various hardware/OS combinations from Microsoft, Google and Apple. If you require a rock solid plug & play MIDI over BLE solution that works on any machine, we recommend the WIDI Bud Pro solution by CME.
By far the easiest and most stable MIDI over BLE solution, is to use a WIDI Bud Pro USB adapter that was specifically designed to provide a rock-solid connection for musicians and performers.
Most modern Linux distros allow you to pair with your Woovebox, after which it can be used system-wide as an input and output MIDI device automatically.
PLEASE NOTE: Apple is currently struggling with providing a stable BLE stack as of Sequoia
Though likely to work on many systems, Windows 11 is not officially supported by Woovebox due to dependency on third party drivers, as Windows is the only operating system that does not natively expose MIDI over BLE devices to applications such as your browser.
- Download MIDI BLE Connect or similar app from the Play store.
- Ensure Location Services and/or Bluetooth Scanning in your Android settings
- Turn on your Woovebox while holding down 1/Cd or 2/bS (use the latter if your device has a buggy BLE driver stack)
- Scan for a device called WOOVEBOX-xxxx or WB and pair with it.
- Keep the app open in the background
- You may need to disable/change your lock screen timeout in order for your browser not to go to sleep.
- Download MIDI BLE Connect or similar app from the Play store.
Most iOS software will detect your Woovebox. For any apps that don't however, you can use a utility app like Bluetooth MIDI Connect to connect your Woovebox to these apps.
You may also be interested in...
- Woovebox SE (under Model comparison)
- 10. d.V.St Drone Volume End (under DJ page)
Volume of the drone (sine wave) tone at the end of the fragment.
- 2nd octave (under Mapping)
- 9. grvE Groove (under Glob Gobal page)
Swing, also known as shuffle, is a rhythmic feel or groove commonly used in music production.
- Tempo and BPM (under Guides, tutorials and docs)
This makes your songs sound like well-planned, evolving pieces of music.
- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Learning the Woovebox
- 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
- 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