- Full documentation, guide and tutorial
- Randomization
Randomization
Guided randomization is a great way to get inspired, whether it is randomizing a pattern, entire pattern chains or even synthesizer patches. Your Woovebox comes with a number of tools to quickly come up with something unique, yet coherent as the basis for further shaping and refining.
Unpredictable randomization vs predictable randomization
You can configure your song's random events to be either 100% unpredictable on every playback (7/hh/'SEEd' on the Song's GLob page set to 'off') or replicable between playbacks (7/hh/'SEEd' set to a non-0 value).
When using a random seed, random events that occur within a track repeat themselves every time you play your song; each number you choose for 7/hh/'SEEd', represents a different sequence of random (but fixed) events. Random events depend on each other sequentially. This means that, as long as these events happen in the same order (i.e. you don't change what is randomized when), they will occur and play exactly the same way every time you play through your song. This "fixed" sequence will be different/random for every random number you choose for 7/hh/'SEEd'.
Going one step further, if your song uses a random seed (7/hh/'SEEd' set to a non-0 value), you may even specify "sub-seeds" (called "takes") when programming your song fragments. This ensures that you can, for example, reliably replicate the same random sequence of events for different parts of your song across different tracks (see song mode documentation). Use cases include trying out replicable humanized performances and note triggers, or trying out replicable (but random) DNA sequences for your songs.
Your Woovebox can use randomization to trigger (or not trigger) some events.
Randomizing a pattern allows you to quickly generate and shape ideas.
Randomizing a pattern chain (as of firmware 2682) is a quick way to populate multiple patterns with a notes in a loosely connected way.
Your Woovebox is able to generate an infinite number of random patches for specific categories of sounds, or for completely novel sounds.
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- About the Woovebox
The Woovebox is a powerful workstation, groovebox and pocket studio that does more with less.
- Pages (under Tracks)
The "left-most" page is always the Sequencer ("Seq") page, where you can edit the steps of the currently selected pattern.
- Advanced (under How to approach)
(crucial to get to the core of the Woovebox) understanding how to use tracks and their patterns in Song mode via fragments.
- The payoff - creating a song with Song mode (under Quick start tutorial)
Much like editing steps on tracks, in a Song mode fragment, you can hold an active (e.g. "lit up") track and edit a number of settings.
- Quick start tutorial (under Full documentation, guide and tutorial)
This is a super quick tutorial for making your first complete song, demonstrating a full workflow, without going too deep just yet.