USD. (complete sentence)
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This seems cool and the navigation seems intuitive once you get it. Just not so sure about the sound design part but I will have to read some more of that manual. The screen seems like a PITA.
Is it possible to implement BT audio? Seems like a no-brainer for such a portable device
It’s up to what a person prefers. Some don’t mind the fiddly bits, have very specific intent, and can use all the flexibility available to them.
I get super hampered by mapping nested UI to programming and performance (Elektron gear is somewhat an exception there.)
Props to those who wring every CPU cycle and function out of their instruments.
It’s fine to have an opinion on something not being for you, I need to have excuses to not buy everything fun, of course! But the need to project one’s opinions onto other people being “wrong” for their preferences of being productive, seems unnecessary.
I made my first music on a Roland W-30 with an Alesis Quadraverb+ as one single effect bus (no mixer, no sends). It was my gateway drug into this wonderful hobby. The gear sold for something like $2500 brand new at the time, thankfully I bought them both used.
To think that this little Woovebox is more capable than my little home studio is just mind boggling! I can’t imagine how much I’d love this if I were back there in 1995.
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Sometimes it feels like we’re living in some hypermoral reincarnation of Victorian era.
I don’t mind people buying it. If that’s your jazz, do whatever you want. I just expressed my thoughts on why I probably wouldn’t want one. And if I was the creator, I would be thankful for anything but praise. Praise is just background noise that doesn’t make you more creative, while criticism actually gives you useful insight.
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You could’ve said the exact same thing, expressed respectfully and nicely. Saying something someone worked hard on “looks like a nightmare” isn’t helpful or kind. So yeah, I thought it was rude.
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Do you honestly feel that your feedback was constructive? Particularly referring to the comment regarding UI-UX being a ‘nightmare’. How does this help the designer specifically?
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Do you call this constructive criticism? 1. Declare it to be a toy, and 2. Use that as a reason not to RTFM.
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I’m loving the idea of the Woovebox. It’s sort of what I imagined the PO’s could build on. I’ve not been tempted by buy much since getting an M8 a couple years back. But, this looks really interesting, and I’ll be following it closely.
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I hope you never put your efforts and energies into creating something only for someone to call it “nightmare” and “toy” and then be told you should be thankful for it but that’s just me 
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It wasn’t framed as constructive, by that rationale any dig is a compliment because someone’a important thoughts are always valuable.
Basic communication here, not “victorian prudishness” or whatever reaction.
Again, big difference between not being interested and slagging on something as if no one SHOULD be interested, (how dare they.)
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People are entitled to opinions, we’re on an elektron forum where we primarly complain about elektron products. We’re lucky the developer took the time to come by and give us some info and he seems like a good sport, I don’t think he’s unfamiliar with how criticism works.
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Cool to see an Aussie creation, congrats on the launch.
What is the expected $AUD price?
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It’s all good - any and all comments are welcome. 
I fully accept the Woovebox is not, and will never be for everyone for one reason or another. And that’s OK. Right now it’s important to get this thing into people’s hands, so it’s a bit clearer for everyone how the interface works.
Take everything I say with a massive amount of salt obviously, but if you’re across how a PO works, you are - IMO - pretty much overqualified to operate the Woovebox.
Of course, I think we all agree that operating a tool and understanding what you’re doing with it are different things. Understanding what sound design entails or how dynamics work is not really the purview of the tool itself (and indeed there are many, many books, tutorials and videos on those subjects). That said, you can simply ignore the few pages that govern these things and - with a single button press(!) - just flip between the sequencer and the presets. If/when you are ready though, the Woovebox can grow with you as you learn more about music production.
Hope that helps!
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Not to mention the analysis is based on zero experience.
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Somewhere around the 249USD equivalent. I’d have to charge GST, but shipping would obviously be less…
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I think if you choose more detailed displays and put better labels on things it would make things more approachable. I used these exact words because I keep seeing devices like this popping up nowadays quite often and most of them actually end up being toys, because of their bad and gimmicky interfaces it’s hard to use them in serious applications.
I don’t want to insult your work or anything, keep doing what you’re doing, I like the engine, I like some of the features and a few other things and if it was put in a different shell I think it would be an interesting device. That being said, now I see it as a first step. I wish you all the best advancing to next steps.
Some people just take things personally… 
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I never said this. I feel like you all just created this imaginary conflict with me in your own heads because for some weird reason you took what I said personally.
If you’re interested, be interested. If you think you know more than me about this, then maybe you do. It’s just my opinion, use your own head to have yours. We don’t need to agree.
Whats a serious application? Live? - yeah I wouldn’t use this live, but it can be done I guess.
Studio? It has stem export so you can easily drop in what you made into a DAW and finish it there.
Not sure what a serious application really means anymore. I think a lot more people are making beats on some sort of mobile device - laptops typically, but now more and more small devices are available that let you compose complete ideas on them before you finish them off in a DAW. This is the evolution from an old school, large MPC/sampler and synth in the studio plugged into a mixer, to now being able to be packed into a small hand held device.
So at this point it’s about if you jive with the UI or not. You don’t which is fine. I suspect other people will not and others will, but that still doesn’t really explain what a “serious application” means.
FYI - I don’t really take this personally, but I think if people are going to say you can’t release musical ideas made on this machine, they should be able to explain why.
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