Roli Lightpad Block

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https://roli.com/products/blocks
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1301706-REG/roli_rol_001141_lightpad_block.html


The Lightpad Block from Roli is the central performance Block in the Blocks system and features an illuminated 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 is made up of 225 LEDs arranged in a 15x15 matrix and features a laser-etched silicone surface 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. The Block system is also compatible with desktop applications including Roli's equator, as well as GarageBand, Logic, Bitwig, Max and more. Connections to your iOS device or desktop computer can be made wirelessly via Bluetooth, or from a wired USB connection.
The Lightpad Block is designed to integrate with the optional Live and Loop 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. The Loop Block offers control for capturing loops, layering sounds, tempo, quantization, and more.
Light Pad Interface
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

https://roli.com/products/blocks
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/videos/watch/hands-on-with-the-roli-block/5295183167001

Hurricane

Slick - - really a nifty little pocket rocket .

The iphone guitar and this are a perfect match - -
Considering :

    Air travel hassles :P 
    Baggage gorillas :o
    Traveling light ;D
This is what international beat box / soloist performer will/could really use .

I like it - Now if I could afford to travel heh heh heh  8) .

EZ :

HR