- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Learning the Woovebox
- The very basics
- Quick start tutorial 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 over Bluetooth
- Battery and charging
- Hardware quirks and limitations
- Understanding DSP load
- Looking after your Woovebox
- Firmware updates
- Arpeggios
- Method 1
Method 1
You can to turn any of the sixteen tracks into fully customizable, complex, intricate arpeggiators.
Traditional arpeggiators found in most of today's gear are often inflexible presets that quickly become stale and uninspiring. Fortunately, your Woovebox comes with something much better; conditional triggering, various modes of auto-chord following, and variable pattern lengths, allowing you to turn any of the 16 tracks into fully customizable, complex, intricate arpeggios.
Key to turning a track into an arpeggiator, is to set its track length to something shorter (and preferably a prime number, such as 3, 5 or 7 steps).
Second, the way the track reacts to the current chord being played, determines how any steps are translated into note pitches. It goes without saying that arepggios therefore lean heavily on the chords you programmed on the chord 'Cd' track. Set FLW.C (follow chord) parameter on the 'Glob' (global) page to 'CLS.3' (quantize pitch to the closest notes that make up the first three notes of the chord) or 'CLS.A' (quantize pitch to the closest notes that make up the entire chord).
Now, program some notes of varying pitches. Use conditional triggering and/or modification to make the notes change depending on the playthrough. You will be generating complex arpeggios in no time.
Note that you can apply further tweaks to further give your arpeggios their own unique character, by applying swing (parameter 9/A1 on the 'Glob' page), applying the some delay effects, and/or by having the frequency cutoff LFO (13/A5-16/A8 on the 'Fltr' page) subtly (or not so subtly) modify the the arpeggio over time.
You may also be interested in...
- AltWire: "Compact Wonder" (under Video resources, tutorials and reviews)
AltWire's Derek Oswald reviews the Woovebox with 2.0 firmware.
- Lo-fi & vintage analog and digital emulation (under Guides, tutorials and docs)
Here too, the sounds your Woovebox produces can be made to - just like the vintage analog drum computers - never be 100% the same on every trigger.
- 5. P.2.Pn Pitch to Pan (under Panning page)
Use note pitch as in input for placing voices in the stereo field.
- Restoring songs (under Wooveconnect)
Please also note that this restores only the song data and not any sample kits the song may use.
- Randomizing events (under Randomization)
Your Woovebox can use randomization to trigger (or not trigger) some events.
- Guides, tutorials and docs
- Learning the Woovebox
- The very basics
- Quick start tutorial 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 over Bluetooth
- Battery and charging
- Hardware quirks and limitations
- Understanding DSP load
- Looking after your Woovebox
- Firmware updates