At Superbooth this year, ROLI presented to their visitors BLOCKS with the new Dashboard integration- It’s an application that extends the power of BLOCKS as a customizable controller system for software programs like Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Native Instruments Kontakt 5 and more. For me personal, a very cool new modular way to control your favourite music production. Only the high price for a complete system discourage me a bit to buy it. It’s a very intuitive and interesting different method to control your parameters but I hope that these devices will be cheaper in future.
Check out the presentation from Superbooth 2017
Check out the presentation from Superbooth 2017
ROLI is delighted to work together with the fast-growing BLOCKS community on this open beta release, adding features that improve the workflow of BLOCKS creators. Community feedback will help guide ROLI’s ongoing development of this versatile application.
With BLOCKS Dashboard the Lightpad Block, Live Block and Loop Block become open-ended MIDI control surfaces. Music-makers can configure different display modes on the surface to control different instruments and parameters within their chosen software programs. The LED-illuminated Lightpad Block, for example, can become a bank of faders controlling a program’s effects – or a 2×2 or 4×4 drum pad controlling drums in a software synthesizer.
BLOCKS Dashboard is the latest addition to the BLOCKS system, which won “Best in Show” at NAMM 2017. ROLI introduced the Lightpad Block, Live Block, and Loop Block in November 2016. The three modular controllers have complementary musical functions, and they connect together to create expandable kits that work with a range of musical styles, skill levels, budgets – and now, software programs. The system is powered by NOISE, a free music-making app for iPhones and iPads that is also the software engine of BLOCKS.
BLOCKS Dashboard integrates BLOCKS with a variety of Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), plug-ins, and other software programs. These include:
- Apple: Logic Pro.
- Ableton: Live.
- Native Instruments: Kontakt, Massive.
- Steinberg: Cubase.
- Bitwig: Studio.
- ROLI: Equator.
- Spectrasonics: Omnisphere.
- FXpansion: Strobe2, Synth Squad.
- SampleModeling: Swam.
- Cycling ’74: Max MSP.
The BLOCKS Dashboard beta is free and available for all BLOCKS music-makers to download via their My ROLI accounts.
Available here: ROLI Blocks
More informations here: ROLI Blocks
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