ROLI Songmaker Kit - Open Box Special

Description

Open Box Special - Ex-Demo Unit

Please Note, 'Included Software Bundles' is not available

The Roli Songmaker Kit gives you everything you need to create your track anywhere. Combine the expressive power of the Seaboard Block, Lightpad Block M, and Loop Block, and make your music with a kit that's more than the sum of its parts.

Unite two state-of-the-art, touch-responsive playing surfaces. Play melodies with the Seaboard Block, a super-powered keyboard. Play drums and control effects with the Lightpad Block M. Record loops easily with the Loop Block. Everything's right there for building any style of track, anywhere.

Not only do the three Blocks connect seamlessly with each other. They also integrate perfectly with a suite of software including Equator, ROLI's premium software synthesizer that's custom-made for MIDI Polyphonic Expression.

Songmaker Kit comes with hundreds of sounds from funky synths to string sections to drums, including three signature soundpacks from world-famous artists: Grimes, Steve Aoki and Rudimental. They’re all custom-made for 5D Touch. Expand your collection further with new cutting-edge soundpacks available to purchase every month.

Enter the sonic universe of Grimes, the singer-producer who’s redefined the boundaries between independent music and pop with albums like Art Angels. Explore Grimes' crazy modulated synths and original drums. From the delicate Ocarina of Thyme to the obliterating Subhumans, this soundpack is for adventurous producers who want to add exciting new sounds to their palette.

Key Features

• 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 programme for control capabilities in other software
• Three-month Max MSP licence included
• Powered via built-in battery or USB

What's New

• 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 colours and a higher contrast display, so you can move more quickly between notes, instruments, and scales
• Bass Quartet by Audio Modelling soundpack, which showcases the latest acoustic sound capabilities of NOISE 3

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. Colourful 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 favourite 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 favourite 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’Voe 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 favourite 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 favourite 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 quantise your performance to keep everything running in time
• Tempo: Set the tempo like a metronome
• Snap: Quantise 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

• Ableton Live Lite
• Equator Player
• Strobe2 Player
• Tracktion Waveform
• 11 NOISE soundpacks (including Bass Quartet by Audio Modelling)
• BLOCKS Dashboard
• MaxMSP (three-month licence)

Functions

• 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 quantise your performance to keep everything running in time:
• Click: Turns metronome on/off and sets the tempo
• Snap: Quantise 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