- 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
- Battery and charging
Battery and charging
Your Woovebox' battery should last 10h or more on a single charge, when performing continuous playback. This is reduced to 5h or more with MIDI over BLE enabled. Some actions may further influence battery life, such as regular saving.
An estimate of the battery level is displayed every time your Woovebox saves your song, and can also be viewed by holding play and short-pressing the value knob.
If the battery level is too low, the device will indicate "BATTCRIT" and "NO SAVE" and will refuse to save until it is put on charge. This is to prevent data corruption, as writing to flash memory may draw a lot of power and may fail if not enough power is available.
If the device has been put on charge via the USB-C port, the display will indicate "USB" instead of a battery percentage.
Charging
Charging your Woovebox is done by connecting a USB power source to the USB-C receptacle on the left hand side. For earlier Woovebox revisions and beta units, only USB-A power sources are detected. Later revisions will also detect USB-C power sources.
Charging the device from empty to 100% may take up to 4 hours. You can safely use your Woovebox while it is charging (please note any ground loop due to poor isolation may impact audio; see also hardware quirks and limitations).
An LED in between the value knob and the screen will illuminate while your Woovebox is charging. It will extinguish once it has completed charging.
The battery in your Woovebox is rated for at least 500 empty-to-full cycles with minimal capacity degradation (>80% capacity).
Important battery safety notes
- Never leave your Woovebox in a hot car.
- Never pierce your Woovebox with a sharp object or spike.
- Do not dispose of your Woovebox by throwing it with household rubbish or by crushing it.
- Your Woovebox includes "load sharing" circuitry to safely use and charge the device at the same time.
- Your Woovebox includes multiple safety measures to prevent the battery from over-charging, over-discharging, over-voltage and short circuiting.
You may also be interested in...
- Wooveboxing YouTube Channel (under Video resources, tutorials and reviews)
- Spectral resolution optimizer (under Understanding DSP load)
'FuLL'; forces full spectral resolution allocation for the track, preventing loss of resolution at all times.
- 16 x 16 x 16 x 16 (under The very basics)
Many other devices swap this, and often give you a number of tracks per pattern.
- Skip-back sampling (resampling) (under Sampler & vocoder)
Your Woovebox continuously records all audio for later use in the sampler.
- 13. b.LEn Buffer Length (under DJ page)
Length of the buffer playback or recording in quarter notes.
- 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