For this week's giveaway, we've once again teamed up with ROLI, this time to give away one of the company's LightPad Block M music making devices.
For those unfamiliar with ROLI, it's a company that makes a fun, modular music creation system called Blocks, designed for everyone from beginners to professionals.
The Lightpad M, priced at $200, is a key component in the ROLI system. Lightpad M supports pressure-based multi-touch gestures on its light-up grid surface to make music. The Lightpad M can recreate the sounds of cellos, flutes, drums, violins, and hundreds of other instruments with simple, intuitive touch gestures.
It also supports beats, chords, melodies, and more, and it ships with more than 200 sounds, with options to add more through an accompanying suite of apps that work with the Lightpad M.
Gestures include a strike for sounding a note, a side to side glide to change pitch, an up and down slide to modulate sound, a press for a deeper sound, and lift to change resonance.
There's a soft, silicone top layer on the Lightpad M for precise control, and the top of the square-shaped accessory lights up in hundreds of colors when touched. Microkeywaves on the silicone surface of the Lightpad M offer pleasing tactile feedback, and it's sensitive enough that even a light touch makes music.
You can fit the Lightpad M in the palm of your hand, so it's small enough to go anywhere, and it offers a wireless connection.
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Remember, back in the day, when you would actually have to learn how to play an instrument?
You still have to learn to play an instrument.. If you want to play an instrument. Stuff like this is a fun extra. If anything that seaboard block looks more complex than using a standard keyboard and would take as much learning as anything else.
Don't get me wrong, it does look like a cool and fun box. But I disagree that it's more complex than learning a standard keyboard. I trained on piano for decades and I still am nowhere near the level of professionals. This box essentially plays back pre set riffs, sequences and sounds. Yes, there's a learning curve but it isn't even in the same conversation as mastering piano, guitar, violin, etc.
I own things like this for producing electronic music (hobby, not professional) and I think unless you have actually tried to play one (or other types like Seaboard Block) you can’t really accurately comment. I’m not having a go at you, I’m just saying that these things look a lot easier to play than they actually are. Yeah, making it just play loops is easy enough but to actually learn how far to slide your finger, when you need to release, how hard to press, which areas harmonize with other areas, etc. is actually very difficult. It’s not like these touch app looping music “creators” where all the timing and stuff is done for you. Well, it can do things like that but if you use it like that it’s a waste of money.
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