The Light pad Block is the center of the BLOCKS system. You make music through natural movements on the Block’s smooth, glowing, pressure-responsive surface. Drop beats and shape melodies by striking, sliding, and pressing your fingers on the surface...
This is the most dynamic electronic music equipment I have ever owned, having experimented with modern midi guitar systems
And if you thought you were going to use this "on the go" as a portable MIDI controller, then you better find a place far from other people because the force required to use this thing generates massive thumps on a table
There is a second app called BLOCKS Dashboard that lets you program different behaviors and settings into the Lightpad BLOCK and that is supposed to make it a useful MIDI controller
The only way around it is to set the velocity at constant, which exactly negates the entire point of having a "touch sensitive" MIDI controller surface, no
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I'm more of a keyboard-controller-with-Orchestral-Library player, so while this is fun, it's not a completely useful tool in that sense
Other reviewers may have different expectations but my background as merely a guitar player who wants something fast, efficient, and dynamic makes this the perfect tool for my interests.
Basically you need to commit to using this system and get all of the parts to make a creative tool out of this.
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If you have a newer iOS device, this will work as advertised, but if you only have Android - check in with Roli in the future as I am sure they will release the Android app at some point.
Not fully compatible with Android or Windows; the glowing advertising pertains to Apple compatibility only.
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If you've never played music and like hitting things, maybe this is a product for you, but buy it somewhere you can return it when you realize you've thrown money away.
This is the most dynamic electronic music equipment I have ever owned, having experimented with modern midi guitar systems
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music?The ROLI Lightpad comes with instruction to download a free app called Noise from the App Store and tells you to go to ROLI dot com for help
The app is pretty cool, it lets you turn on and off different loops to make a song, and there is probably a way to program your own stuff in, but it's not very user friendly or easy to
I found the iPhone app to be very limited in what can be recorded or saved
App works better without the actual physical hardware
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