Wireless MIDI over Bluetooth

Your Woovebox is one of only a handful devices on the market that can connect directly wireless MIDI controllers like this KORG nanoKEY Studio (eXpanded sticker pack supplied with Woovebox Pro or available separately)

Your Woovebox supports MIDI in and out over Bluetooth® LE (Low Energy), allowing it to communicate with almost any MIDI over Bluetooth device, such as MIDI controllers, phones, tablets, DAWs as well as the Wooveconnect service and app.

Peripheral mode

Peripheral mode is the most common mode for MIDI over BLE gear, where a device connects to a host (such as a phone, table, laptop or desktop).

To start your Woovebox with Bluetooth peripheral mode enabled, keep the 1/Cd (or 2/bS for enhanced compatibility mode, or 3/Ld for high-speed mode) key pressed while switching on the device. The display reads 'boot bLE' (or 'safE bLE' or 'FaSt bLE').

You can now use your Woovebox with a host device, and use the Wireless MIDI and data transfer capabilities.

Central ("host") mode

Your Woovebox is among the select few devices on the market that can act as a host for other devices to connect to. This means that you can connect most Wireless MIDI peripherals to your Woovebox. You can even connect another Woovebox to your Woovebox and transfer back and forth data, sync their playback, etc.

To start your Woovebox in Bluetooth central ("host") mode, keep the 4/Ar key pressed while switching on the device. The display reads 'hoSt bLE'.

Once your device has booted up, you can proceed to turn on your peripheral (or your peripheral's Bluetooth function). Your Woovebox will automatically attempt to connect to any available peripheral device it detects.

One device at a time

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 to a host

After the pairing procedure for your particular operating system, 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.

Please make sure any Battery Saver mode that may interfere with Bluetooth is off (Android, iOS, and Windows Power Management).

The stability of your MIDI over BLE connection is heavily dependent the quality of the drivers and quality operating system's Bluetooth 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.