![]() The clear jewel in the bundle, it’s a really impressive software synth with a wide palette of 200 sounds. It can also be used to adjust the sensitivity of the Lightpad Block M, as well as make changes to scale and octave parameters when in instrument mode, letting you set up the pad as a grid-based keyboard that can be set to certain key so you won't hit a duff note during performances.Įquator Player, meanwhile, is a software synth that works standalone or with a sequencer that’s been designed from the ground up by ROLI to demonstrate the '5D' capabilities of their Seaboard keyboards and the Lightpad Block M. The two key apps included in the package, however, are ROLI Dashboard and Equator Player.Īs well as acting as a means for updating the Blocks firmware, Dashboard allows you to configure Blocks to work as a midi controller with third party software instruments and DAWs, with presets for programs like Garageband, Logic and Ableton Live. The desktop software bundle for both Mac and Windows includes a 'lite' version of the ubiquitous music sequencer Ableton Live customised to work with the Lightpad Block and similarly lightweight versions of software synths Strobe2 and Cypher2. ![]() After going through an online registration, we were directed to a suite of programs to download, along with a playlist of well thought out YouTube tutorials demonstrating how to use the hardware. We put the kit through its paces in desktop mode first of all, pairing the two included Blocks with our Apple iMac. ![]()
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