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User Manual for ROLI Songmaker Kit Click to enlarge the picture
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- Product category: Keyboard Controllers ROLI
- Brand: ROLI
- Description and content of package
- Technical information and basic settings
- Frequently asked questions – FAQ
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Product description The Roli Songmaker Kit combines the Seaboard Block, Lightpad M, and Loop Block with a Snapcase 3/8, giving you everything you need to create tracks anywhere. This complete studio package is modular and can be configured in a variety of ways to suit your needs. The expansive software suite includes Equator, Roli's premium software synthesizer that is custom-made for MIDI polyphonic expression and NOISE, a free iOS / Google Pixel app offering hundreds of sounds. Additional software titles included Strobe2 Player, Ableton Live Lite, Tracktion Waveform, Blocks Dashboard, and Max MSP. The Roli Songmaker Kit also includes two USB-C to USB-A cables. - Seaboard Block - Keyboard Controller/Open-Ended Interactive Surface The Seaboard Block from ROLI is a portable keyboard controller and open-ended interactive surface designed to provide versatile and expressive instrument control gestures for electronic musicians, keyboardists, composers, and music producers. It includes a suite of software and hundreds of sounds.It features ROLI’s award-winning Seaboard interface as a 24-keywave, two-octave playing surface. 5D Touch technology provides response to five types of interaction: Strike, Glide, Slide, Press, and Lift. Control hundreds of sounds in the supplied apps, NOISE and Equator Player. The BLOCKS Dashboard program enables you to use the Seaboard Block as a MIDI controller for other applications, such as Ableton Live and Logic Pro X. It transmits MIDI over USB and Bluetooth, allowing it to be used with computers, tablets, or smartphones.Expand your system by connecting the Seaboard Block to other ROLI BLOCKS via magnetic DNA connectors. The built-in battery provides up to 10 hours of operating time, or use the included USB cable to power the controller via USB.
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- Award-winning Seaboard interface with a 24-keywave, two-octave playing surface
- 5D Touch technology provides expressive control gestures: Strike, Glide, Slide, Press, and Lift
- MIDI over USB and Bluetooth
- Magnetically connects to other BLOCKS via DNA connectors
- Includes NOISE and Equator Player apps, providing hundreds of sounds
- Includes BLOCKS Dashboard program for control capabilities in other software
- Three-month Max MSP license included
- Powered via built-in battery or USB
UPC: 814773020161 - Lightpad Block M - Wireless Illuminated Tactile Control Surface Building upon the success of the original Lightpad Block, the Roli Lightpad Block M has a redesigned surface that offers an even more tactile, responsive, and precise playing experience. Several advancements have been implemented including a deeper, softer surface that is topped with 225 undulating microkeywaves. These microkeywaves provide more tactile feedback, allowing you to interact with the surface in a deeper way and gauge each movement more precisely. Additionally, a thicker, softer silicone layer enhances the pressure-responsiveness, while the high-definition LEDs offer a 50% brighter surface illumination, allowing for a higher contrast display, and helping you move more quickly between notes, instruments, and scales. The Lightpad Block M is part of the Roli Block system and features a tactile surface that enables the user to shape sounds through five dimensions of touch including strike, glide, slide, press, and lift. It builds sequencing, looping, finger drumming, and expressive control into one intuitive device.
The Lightpad Block M is made up of 225 LEDs arranged in a 15x15 matrix and features a semi-soft, smooth, texture with undulating microkeywaves, allowing for multidimensional performances. The fixed configuration of the pads is defined by Noise, the free iOS app, and can be configured in three modes including 2x2, 4x4, and 5x5. Additional apps include Equator Player, Ableton Live Lite, Strobe2 Player, Tracktion Waveform, Blocks Dashboard, and MaxMSP (3-month license). The Block system is also compatible with desktop applications including Roli's Equator, as well as Ableton Live, FXpansion Strobe2, Native Instruments Kontakt & Massive, Bitwig Studio, Apple Logic Pro & Garageband, SampleModeling SWAM, Cycling '74 MaxMSP, and Spectrasonics Omnisphere. Connections to your iOS device or desktop computer can be made wirelessly via Bluetooth, or from a wired USB connection. The Lightpad Block M is designed to integrate with the optional Live, Loop, and Touch Blocks, which provide tactile control over the most frequently used functions for quick and easy performance. The Live Block allows for switching scales and octaves, playing chords and arpeggios, and sustaining notes, while the Loop Block offers control for capturing loops, layering sounds, tempo, quantization, and more. The Touch Block provides expression control, allowing you to turn up or down the responsiveness of the Lightpad Block M's strike, glide, slide, press, and lift dimensions of touch. - What's New
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- Redesigned Interface: The Lightpad M builds on the touch-responsive powers of the original Lightpad Block. Lightpad M’s surface is deeper, softer, and defined by undulating microkeywaves for an even more precise playing experience
- Enhanced Tactile Feedback: Based on the wave-like surface of ROLI's Seaboard instruments, the 225 microkeywaves of the Lightpad M add more tactile feedback, so you can interact with the surface in a deeper way and gauge each movement more precisely. A thicker, softer silicone layer enhances pressure-responsiveness
- Enhanced Visual Feedback: The surface of the Lightpad M is 50% brighter than the original Lightpad Block. It features higher-definition colors and a higher contrast display, so you can move more quickly between notes, instruments, and scales
- Bass Quartet by Audio Modeling soundpack, which showcases the latest acoustic sound capabilities of NOISE 3
- Light Pad Interface
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- Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, the Lightpad Block packs more power than a roomful of instruments
- When paired with the NOISE app, you can make any kind of music - drum beats, guitar leads, orchestral melodies
- Approachable and easy to learn. Express the music inside of you, whether you play an instrument or not
- Enjoy the interaction of touch, sound, and light
- The silicone surface is pressure-responsive, and you shape sound by striking the surface, pressing into it, and moving your fingers around it
- The LED-illuminated surface glows, and each touch leaves a trace of light. Colorful grids guide you to make different kinds of music
- Grid Layouts
- 2x2 for drum kits with four sounds
- 4x4 for drum kits with 16 sounds
- 5x5 for melodic or pitched sounds (root note is always white)
- Five Ways to Shape Sound Through Touch
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- Strike: Strike the surface to sound a note, as you would on a piano key or a drum
- Glide: Glide your fingers from side to side to bend the pitch, as violinists do
- Slide: Slide up and down to modulate the sound
- Press: Press into the surface to deepen sounds, like a saxophone player does by breathing more
- Lift: Lift off the surface at different speeds to change a sound’s resonance
- Learn Mode
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- In Learn Mode, Light Trails appear on the surface that guide you to make beats and melodies
- Learn Mode teaches you the gestures for making music, so you can move more quickly to performing
- Drop Some Beats
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- Choose a drum kit in NOISE
- Tap the surface with your finger at different speeds and on different pads of the illuminated grid
- You make beats just like you would on live drums
- Choose a Groove Kit and drop some grooves simply by moving your fingers around the surface
- Record loops of your favorite beats to create a track
- Play a Melody
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- Choose a scale
- The notes of the scale appear on the pads of the illuminated grid
- Turn on Hide Mode and you’ll always be in tune, because you’ll only see the notes for that scale
- Play chords and arpeggios by pressing a single note
- Record melodic sequences from a range of instruments and layer them to create beautiful harmonies
- Make a Song
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- Arrange a musical composition with the Lightpad Block and NOISE
- Record your favorite beats and melodies as loops, and layer those loops on top of each other to make a song
- Keep building your song as your skills and interests grow
- Perform one part of it live and the riff you improvise may be the best thing you’ve come up with yet
- Expand Your Surface
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- Blocks DNA connectors not only magnetically connect the Blocks, but also send data, so each Block knows how it’s configured with other Blocks
- Two Lightpad Blocks create a continuous surface that works just like a single Block, but with even more power
- Live Blocks buttons let you switch scales and octaves, trigger chords and arpeggios, and sustain notes in real time
- Mode: Toggle between favorite sounds, loops, and tracks
- Volume: Adjust volume
- Scale: Select any of the available 19 scales
- Chord: Select a chord that is triggered from a single note
- Arp: Select an arpeggio that is triggered when you press a note
- Sustain: Sustain a note
- Octave: Switch up or down up to three octaves
- Heart: Bookmark your favorite sounds
- Loop Blocks are for producing and put studio techniques for recording and editing at your fingertips. Buttons help you record a loop, or sequence and play it back. Set tempo and quantize your performance to keep everything running in time
- Tempo: Set the tempo like a metronome
- Snap: Quantize recorded loops to keep everything in time
- Undo: Undo your last recording
- Play: Play or Pause recorded loops
- Rec: Record a loop
- Learn: Activate demos that teach you how to interact with each sound
- Included Software Bundle
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- Ableton Live Lite
- Equator Player
- Strobe2 Player
- Tracktion Waveform
- 11 NOISE soundpacks (including Bass Quartet by Audio Modeling)
- BLOCKS Dashboard
- MaxMSP (three-month license)
UPC: 814773020543 - Loop Block - Performance Controller for Blocks Modular Music System The Loop Block from Roli adds a number of performance controls to the Blocks modular music performance system and is designed to be used in conjunction with the Lightpad Block. The Loop Block puts the most frequently used functions for control in immediate reach including dedicated buttons for mode, volume, click/tempo, snap, undo, play/recording loops, and learn. The unit's rechargeable battery offers up to four hours of use and is charged via the magnetic DNA connector on the Lightpad Block. The Loop Block can be used wirelessly via Bluetooth up to 15m.
- Functions
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- Loop Blocks are for producing and put studio techniques for recording and editing at your fingertips. Buttons help you record a loop, or sequence and play it back. Set tempo and quantize your performance to keep everything running in time:
- Click: Turns metronome on/off and sets the tempo
- Snap: Quantize recorded notes and loops to keep everything in time
- Undo: Reverts one step back to the previous value
- Play: Starts or stops playback of all selected loops in Song View
- Rec: Record a loop
- Learn: Activate demos that teach you how to interact with each sound
UPC: 814773020154 In the Box Bundle Items Seaboard Block - Keyboard Controller/Open-Ended Interactive Surface uazbsdxwbzrszyywvbwvrta - Max MSP License (Three Months)
- USB Type-C to USB Type-A Cable
Lightpad Block M - Wireless Illuminated Tactile Control Surface uazbsdxwbzrszyywvbwvrta - USB Type-C to USB Type-A Cable
Loop Block - Performance Controller for Blocks Modular Music System
Also Includes - Snapcase 3/8
- 2 x USB-C to USB-A Cables
- Software Suite with Soundpacks
- Limited 1-Year Warranty
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Technical parameters - Seaboard Block - Keyboard Controller/Open-Ended Interactive Surface
| Keyboard | 25 Keys, MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) Action with Aftertouch | | I/O | 1 x USB Type-C Bus-Power/MIDI 4 x DNA Expansion | OS Compatibility | iOS | Wireless Transmission | Bluetooth LE | | Power Options | Battery, USB Bus-Power | Expected Battery Life | 10 Hours | | Dimensions (W x D x H) | 11.1 x 5.6 x 1.0" / 282.0 x 141.0 x 24.7 mm | Weight | 1.4 lb / 0.6 kg | | Box Dimensions (LxWxH) | 12.126 x 6.772 x 1.654" | - Lightpad Block M - Wireless Illuminated Tactile Control Surface
System Requirements | iPhone 6, 6 Plus, or newer iPad air or newer iOS 9.0 or above Mac OS X 10.10+ / Windows 10 | Port Connectivity | USB Type-C port (MIDI out and power) Full MIDI compatibility over USB and Bluetooth LE 8 x DNA connectors | Bluetooth Range | 49.21' / 15.00 m | Battery | 4-hour battery life 2-hour charge time | Pad | Semi-soft, smooth, contoured with undulating microkeywaves 225 LEDs on surface | Dimensions (W x H x D) | 3.7 x 0.9 x 3.7" / 94.0 x 21.8 x 94.0 mm Silicone Depth: 0.23" / 5.85 mm | Weight | 9.2 oz / 260.0 g | | Box Dimensions (LxWxH) | 4.85 x 4.8 x 1.75" | - Loop Block - Performance Controller for Blocks Modular Music System
LEDs | 15-LED Indicator Strip, 10 backlit buttons | Buttons | 10 backlit buttons | Connectors | DNA Connectors: 6 | Connectivity | Full MIDI compatibility over USB and Bluetooth LE | Bluetooth Range | 49.2' / 15.0 m | Battery Type | 740 mAh LiPo (Lithium polymer) | Battery Life | 4 hours | Dimensions (W x H x D) | 3.7 x 1.9 x 0.8" / 94.0 x 47.0 x 20.0 mm | Weight | 3.5 oz / 100.0 g | | Box Dimensions (LxWxH) | 4.8 x 3.0 x 1.7" |
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