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- mg332
https://roli.com/products/blocks…
Bought the ROLI Seaboard Bock this weekend. I had never heard of this until a coworker told me about it Friday and I was immediately intrigued.
Two words: blown away. Being used to playing a standard MIDI controller that doesn't even have Aftertouch, there are obviously limits to the expressiveness of a regular controller.
This thing is amazing in how much variable pressure, direction, etc. you can play with. What really sums it up in terms of what instantly amazed me was that it can be set to adjust all sorts of parameters per note - ex: cutoff - if you're playing multiple notes at once and you only slide your finger up on one of them, it only impacts the cutoff for that note. It was pretty mind blowing. I'm sure there are ways you can adjust cutoff per note if you want to control all of that in software and painstakingly adjust that stuff, but to do it all right there with your hands was really cool.
I'm really looking forward to getting it set up to work better with strings in Logic. It apparently requires some tweaking of the MIDI controls and such, but some of the videos I've seen, you can control vibrato by moving your fingers up or down, or kind of vibrating them side to side.
Anyone have one of these? I've not been this excited to sit down and just come up with ideas, especially for more of the ambient stuff I'm doing these days where I'll love the variability and expressiveness of it as you use it.
- where you been? Facebook seems to bombard me with their adverts for the past 3+ years...shapesalad
- This somehow missed me completely. I'd not seen anything from them until Friday.mg33
- Friend has one, I like it a lot, very expressive! He recently got a Touche too which is just as epic. https://www.expressi…microkorg
- It really reminds me why I like the Animoog app - because of that big customizable X/Y pad and the variations of sound with it.mg33
- Nice.. played before but was super wary of the foam.. longevity these keyboards won’t have..autoflavour
- yeah i'm quite tempted by the roli, tho i wonder how the surface stands up to wear...hans_glib
- and the touchee is almost brilliant, if only it was more programmable and more joystick like.hans_glib
- I played with one of these in our local music store, hungover, for about 2 hours. Great bit of kit. And the modules are great add ons tooIanbolton
- Cool purchase tho.. not to throw shade..autoflavour
- Love the look. Like a Death Star engineer was into musicfuturefood
- autoflavour0
Granular synth in a box..
almost tempted, only I don't have a spare 900euro laying around.- or get reason 10. i'd been umming and ahhing over the gr-1 for ages, then decided to go with reason.
much better value.hans_glib - I say I'm tempted, but really I never use granular synths.. just cool that it exists.autoflavour
- or get reason 10. i'd been umming and ahhing over the gr-1 for ages, then decided to go with reason.
- autoflavour4
so uploaded this.. long after it should have come out..
always wanted to rework it.. but listening back, it should have just come out way earlier- remix for some friends in Berlin..autoflavour
- This is hot.big-papes
- prophetone0
- good thing this is $3000.. otherwise I would lust too hardautoflavour
- mantrakid0
Hi guys. Im writing this song and am curious what you think of it so far.... pack it in or keep going? Any advice?
- i dig it. i think you need to cut the freestyle section down to about 1/4 and place your chorus between each part to make it more "catchy"lvl_13
- hashtagged and signed-someone with no idea and never actually made music, just listen to a ton of it :Dlvl_13
- yeah thats good advice, thanks! even if it was more of a break down / instrumental without the actual chorus / lyrics on it maybe... so there's a gap. thanks!!mantrakid
- fckuing smooth.keewee
- glue compress all your drums, either cut some of the bass from the kick or shorten the decay, needs more dirt over all.. put a compressor on the master.autoflavour
- vocal needs to sit higher in the mix.autoflavour
- seems to be a lot happening in the mid range, pads and vocals are competing for space. pads down, vocals up, eq them to have more space.autoflavour
- nice sound tho otherwiseautoflavour
- damn, thanks autoflavour! Ill spend some time on a proper mix with neutron this weekend, would you be down to re-review it even just super quick? hugs!mantrakid
- sureautoflavour
- futurefood3
- hah, glorious... thought that looked like pete fowler at the start, but look at them - of course it is.kingsteven
- best thing everhans_glib
- mantrakid0
@autoflavor -- did a (hopefully?) proper mix on this, is it any better?
https://soundcloud.com/ghostcart…
thanks homie!
- imbecile0
thoughts?
https://mixedinkey.com/captain-p…- Guetta approved, run to the hills.fadein11
- “Make your own melodies and chord progressions with your own fingers”
Finallly!futurefood - so... not good thoughts?imbecile
- $79 seems a bit steep, but the chord explorer seems interestingfuturefood
- mantrakid0
Fack sorry @autoflavour, i pasted the wrong link before :(
https://soundcloud.com/ghostcart…
Curious if this sounds any better to you? Sorry for the bump just for this.
- prophetone3
- "rechargeable battery" :-|kingsteven
- tidy!microkorg
- i want those sliders!futurefood
- ...and the rest of itfuturefood
