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Reviewed: Roli Blocks with Blocks Dashboard beta software; Price: $180. Block—expanding ability to control DAW software such as Ableton Live. But registering at least one Lightpad Block gets you free downloads of. Oct 27, 2017 To use your Lightpad Block as a controller for Ableton Live, connect your Block to your desktop computer via a USB-C cable. Open BLOCKS Dashboard and load the ‘Ableton Live Control’ app onto your. To use your Lightpad Block as a controller for Ableton Live, connect your Block to your desktop computer via a USB-C cable. Open BLOCKS Dashboard and load the ‘Ableton Live Control’ app onto your Block. The Lightpad Block will now be recognised as a plug in and play controller under the ‘MIDI Preferences’ menu in Ableton Live. The newly released beta app allows you to configure your Roli Blocks much like you. You'll want to download and install the Blocks Dashboard beta app. Lightpad block for more clip launchers, or utilize a bank of faders to control volume.
Blocks by Roll are quickly finding their way into the hands of music makers everywhere. What started out as an offshoot from their work on the Seaboard turned into a full-fledged music production studio that can be held in the palm of your hand. When Blocks first debuted, they were fairly ‘locked down’ into working with only the Roli ‘Noise’ iOS app. This all changed with the debut of BLOCKS Dashboard. The newly released beta app allows you to configure your Roli Blocks much like you can a Seaboard through the original Dashboard software. With the power of Blocks and Dashboard, you can use your Blocks with just about any desktop app you can think of for any purpose you like! Here’s a quick glance at how to get it going!
Establishing Connection
First, you’ll want to get your Blocks paired up with your computer. You can connect to your Mac with a USB cable, or wirelessly via Bluetooth. If you wind up choosing Bluetooth, you’ll have to open up the Audio Midi Setup app in your Applications/Utilities folder and pair up. (We’ve got a great article on how to do just that here: https://ask.audio/articles/using-bluetooth-midi-on-ios-and-os-x_)
Personally, I tend to hook up with a USB cable for longer sessions on the desktop, I find it a bit more reliable. Once you’re connected, turn on your Blocks.
Download and Install
You’ll want to download and install the Blocks Dashboard beta app. You can get it here. Once you start it up with a Block or two connected, it should automatically detect your hardware and you’re good to go! The various ‘presets’ are tagged and you can browse by application type (whether you want the block to send MIDI CC, notes, or simply behave like a factory block). You can even load up a few games to play right on the surface of your Lightpad block (thanks, Roli!).
In this test case, I’ve set up my blocks as a simple grid of 4x4 buttons and I’d like to pair them up to launch some clips in Ableton Live.
Run Your DAW
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With any DAW, you’re likely going to want to first enable your Block as a MIDI device, and Live is no different. In the preferences menu, set the Block as an ‘active’ MIDI device. After you tap a few times on the block, you should see some activity in the upper right corner of the MIDI monitor. Once you know you’ve got MIDI incoming, it’s time to map it!
You can click the MIDI map button in the upper right corner of the Live window, or use the shortcut of Command-M. This will make Ableton Live enter ‘MIDI Map Mode’. The screen controls will turn blue. Click on a clip slot, then tap the virtual button on your Block that you’d like to have launch that clip. Repeat this for all the buttons you wish to map to your block, then simply exit MIDI Map mode.
That’s it! It’s just that simple. Now whenever you press a button on your block, the corresponding clip will launch in Live! You can even utilize a second Lightpad block for more clip launchers, or utilize a bank of faders to control volume. That’s the beauty of Blocks, you can pretty much make them do whatever you want!
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A couple of months ago, we mentioned that ROLI was working on BLOCKS Dashboard, a free application that integrates the Lightpad Block, Live Block, and Loop Block with leading DAWs and plug-ins. Good news, BLOCK Dashboard is available from today as a beta (not yet complete, says the company) version.
Through BLOCKS Dashboard you can control Logic Pro, Ableton Live, and other software programs in a new, intuitive, faster way. Music makers with BLOCKS can download it today and start exploring a hugely exciting new side of this modular music creation system.
Sharing this beta version, ROLI welcomes feedback on everyone’s experiences with BLOCKS Dashboard.
Watch the short videos below to see how you can control Logic Pro and Ableton Live, two popular music production programs, with BLOCKS.
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Here’s BLOCKS Dashboard with Logic Pro:
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And here with Ableton Live:
And Bitwig Studio:
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You can configure different display modes on the surface to control instruments and parameters within your favorite software programs. To download the beta version and read more visit the new ROLI’s webpage dedicated to the application.