ROLI Lightpad Block

ROLI Lightpad Block Product Details

Description

The Lightpad Block is an affordable 5D MIDI controller and the centrepiece of ROLI BLOCKS, the modular music studio. On the Block’s pliable, pressure-sensitive surface you shape sound through gliding, pressing, lifting and other intuitive gestures. The surface is a glowing grid of squares that guides you to make beats and shape melodies.

Features:

• Integrates with popular DAWs and plug-ins including Logic, Ableton Live, Cubase, and Omnisphere via the included BLOCKS Dashboard
• Bundled with over 200 preset sounds, and options to download more sound through in-app purchases of NOISE Soundpacks including ones from acclaimed musicians like Steve Aoki and RZA
• Powered by the free iOS app NOISE
• Play wirelessly wherever you are using Bluetooth, Lightpad Block and an iPhone or iPad
• NOISE app lets you choose sounds, add effects, record loops, and launch loops to make a track
• Intuitive controls for changing scales, playing chords and arpeggios, setting tempo, quantizing, and recording and undoing
• In Learn Mode, follow Lightpad Block’s unique Light Trails to learn musical gestures for shaping sounds on the new interface
• Convenient handheld design with a 9.5-centimetre square surface fits neatly in a pocket
• DNA connectors allow magnetic connection between Lightpad Block and other Blocks in the ROLI BLOCKS system
• Charges through cable to USB-C port and through connection to other Blocks