BLOCKS: The instrument that grows with you
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BLOCKS is the modular music making system that grows with you. Each Block is incredibly powerful, putting musical expression right at your fingertips. Start with one Block. Connect more Blocks together. Customize the instrument that’s right for you, and grow all the way with your music.
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BLOCKS: The instrument that grows relative to your wallet shrinking
Duhasianguy nice comment stealing 👍
Duhasianguy ah I see your making an original joke to this comment section
Inversely proportional*
firstname lastname TH-cam is free
firstname lastname that was literally the dumbest thing I've seen today. You are so stupid
The instrument that grows with you, not with your Wallet.
Brad Barreau hundreds of dollars for apps easily accessible from an ipad
Brad Barreau people are willing to pay 3000 pounds for guitars that sound the same as something 2000 pounds cheaper but this actually Has something going for it...
kleverklogs 3000 pounds of what? I guess the UK has very heavy currensy
BILLY DONUTS "top end" guitars are crazily expensive despite not actually bringing anything new
kleverklogs buying an expensive guitar
Pros: pick ups and wiring is better, wood is better and gives better tone, most importantly the entire guitar tens to feel much more playable
Cons: expensive
watching this makes me feel like i volunteered to watch advertisements
You did
Reminds me of watching vat19 ads
I am
@@sovietbox2422 they barely make ads now they just do challenges
Lol
Even after 6 years, this thing still feels like something from the future. Great job on being innovative!
yeah fr
indeed
Wow
this comment made me only now realize this is from 6 years ago i genuinly thought that this was like a recent new thing
this is from 6 years ago...? 😳
_And obviously_
*_All shown products are sold separately_*
sadly :(
It would actually be worse if you couldn't buy them separately
Isnt that the point???
Roli made a product called songmaker kit which bundles the seaboard block, the lightpad block, the loop block, and music production softwares, sound engine, DAWS, and more.
Not with the Song Maker Kit!
My ass people who can afford it can't play it, people who can play it can't afford it
Lol I know
Lol
I feel ye
Like very good golf clubs and other sports kit.
Musician's life
Notice how it's the same hands playing in every ad ? That's because its so complex there's only one guy who can play and it's the guy who invented it
why would they use a different person lol
@@phonn6935 To showcase it is a piece of cake to play Blocks. Which is not the case ;)
@@chaz-e any instrument is hard tho
@@phonn6935 maybe they didint want to hire 10 people, and wanted to show off how to use it with practice.
@@chaz-e Well if producing music is a piece of cake anyway why i dont see any songs of yours that popular ?
Warning: These Instruments don't come with talent
*(talent is sold separately for $200)*
bruh this should have way more likes
$200 for getting talent of video's artist? that's cheap
I think 200 bucks for talent is not a bad deal... and wa ymore people could have it then~
*talent is sold in the form of online courses/classes
I'd pay that for even a sliver of musical talent.
Legos been doing their homework lately.
lol
Meganinja101
fuck you
911 likes :o
xKarma _ yes they have
xKarma _ ffs please call it Lego, plural of Lego is Lego, not legos
For anyone wondering this would cost, with all pieces sold separately
$1,689.55
Lol
Well, I'm not even converting to my coin, it's already out of reach ☺
Welp, here i go canceling my dream again lol
And even once you buy it they want you to buy more software which an extra $200!!!!!
I much prefer my moog mother!
Cash ❌
Card ❌
Kidney ✅
Brain✅
$300 isn't a big deal for producers.
I thought kidney was a type of credit card. I just realized what you mean
@@Human8 *cough* for the ones who want to produce. *ASTHMA*
@@Human8 my keyboard is R$500 (my country's currency) and is far from a professional one, man Im jealous for first world countries
Everyone saying this looks hard to use is insane. This looks so easy and intuitive. The fact that everything is velocity controlled is FIRE.
Totally
I think the only hard part would be knowing where to start
@@thepaperbagman_ just pick it up. It’s a controller. Learn it just like a daw lol.
Hm, I mean I find myself trying to maintain a constant velocity so the fact that every note will get recorded SLIGHTLY differently if I’m just a pixel off will probably fire up OCD 🥲
@@utopeswho's gonna tell em about wind instruments
most people that buy it think they could make really cool music with it and then never use it again and it just sits in a random closet
facts
dont @ me like this wow
Some 1% guy : cant even make music
Some beggar : makes awesome music with only guitar
Took this example frim my country
Lmao catch me not using something that costs 1,000 dollars
Ur talking about me and I don’t like it
*the comments are pure gold*
Yeah they're blocks of pure gold :)
True
No they're cringetier garbage
the gold we need to buy this
well, for those prices, so is this product.
what i need in my life:
the music of this without any of the commentary
edit: i never made this comment on this video and found it
im a car🚗
@@bigeral6436 I’m a sock 🧦
@@averixx06 and I......am iron man **snap**
Yes!
@@Zuion_Art I am a furry. Your argument is invalid.
It’s cool to watch on TH-cam but hardly anyone of us is actually about to buy this thing. Truth is most musicians are perfectly fine with a good keyboard hooked up to ableton or other softwares.
Most people or musicians who want's to buy this are most likely just to flex or to try and learn this unusual instrument
i mean, i want it because it fits perfectly with my style
Its is sold out everywhere. I guess you were wrong?
@@kingdomsbricks4762 Yeah, idk what people are thinking. With how popular it is, and even some skeptics on the comment are able to get interested, it's not hard to imagine it'll sell like a hotcake.
People able to throw money for something much less. Let alone something actually interesting for once.
@@actin6901 Yep! I am trying to get my hands on some of their products. I cannot wait.
Title: "The instrument that grows with you."
Me: Oh, like some AI learning?
Commercial: Nah, just an expensive midi controller
Lol😂
Still awesome
No Body Bruh why
Yeah l'd rather find a used Korg MS-20 for less than half of what this cost while sounding twice as good. IMO
Yes i see, way to expensive. I just bough a Roland A-300PRO with a pressure sensitive keyboard and 8 drumpads with aftertouch, 9 sliders 9 turn knobs. This cost me as much as one of their modules. I'm writing my own Free synth that runs in a website on WebGL, not finished yet i want it to support almost all midi options. If it is finished programmers can easily make extra instruments in shadercode (like on shadertoy.com) that outputs the instrument waveform. And then write shadercode for effects like reverb, equalizer etc. which runs in a second pass. My video-card can easily do over 250 passes and still generate realtime sound so i'm optimistic about it. I'm working on making all midi parameters available with variable names. In the most recent version i wrote a distortion on pressure effect with the line "return clamp(getInputSample(0.0) * (1.0 + 5.0 * pressure), -0.75, 0.75)" which i hope i can teach to people and make it educational. I've had little feedback so far since i'm still building, that's why i'm dropping this here.
shadersynth.com
Still would like to see what messages a seaboard sends to do the slides between notes.
sounds like a very fancy way of dividing your product so you can sell it in small chunks and make much more than its worth.
Hm...actually an interesting thing to consider. If a fair set of blocks was combined into a single product, then costs could significantly lowered on ports, the contacts for the block connections, and the separate batteries that all these things have. I like this comment.
Adam Evans EA is doing it with their games
Tru
TheAnonymous3248 Ah, so if EA does it its bad and dumb and "they should finally release a full game", but if its this then its fine.
Yep
"Hello sir, how may I help you today?"
"Oh, I saw a video of the BLOCKS or whatever. Can I just get the keyboard BLOCK?"
"Okay sir, will you be paying with your liver or your soul?"
"Sorry?"
* Looks at price*
"Oh......soul I guess."
If you use honey you only have to pay with a leg, I recommend it as I was able to sell my other leg to get robotic replacements for both
@@sophiescribbles8504 Haha, yes.
you guys are ridiculous. these things aren't that expensive. quality hardware isn't cheap, you know that right? you all get so used to cheap mass produced alesis keyboards and pirated software that you forget sometimes, SOMETIMES, it's worth it to get something, especially if it's a novel tool and unlike anything else in the hardware department. i just bought a used seaboard for $250 and have seen the rise 49 at like $800, which is a great price for something like this.
sorry babe, we won't be able to afford food this month, but hey! atleast i was able to buy the whole blocks set!
Where can I find the cracked version ??
download more ram from the internet
@@wes5007 softonic
Gg
Pirate bay
Pornhub
I'd like to grow with you too, so could you make them cheaper?
Fr..
Vampirizian these modules are actually pretty cheap for what you're getting, and they're readily portable... actually, for the price, I kinda have to wonder about battery life, durability, and how sensitive the system actually is. if this is as good as they make it out to be, then this system is a steal at a sub-$1k price point. if not? then it's kind of a waste of time and money.
music can get hideously expensive to make, especially once electronics and peripherals get involved.
Andrew Amann in all seriousness
Notice that I never said the price was unfair, just that I wanted them to be cheaper. I'd love to be able to get one for much cheaper so I could start making music with it now, but I actually think the price is totally fair. And personally I think that the blocks they've shown here are probably the most efficient and useful setup roli has ever released. They're worth the money but I'd love for them to be cheaper. Wouldn't you?
Vampirizian without knowing the tradeoffs to get the price lower, probably not. at the price listed, I'd venture to guess that their margins aren't amazing, and in order to get much lower, materials, system reliability or sensitivity, or construction quality would likely suffer.
that said, I'm not a musician, but my experience with firearms tells me that, for a given quality of product, there is a price floor with durable goods, as far as features and quality go, that really shouldn't be dropped below, if you're looking for a quality tool worth owning. that's not to say that you shouldn't look for deals, or that all expensive items are better (they could be, but they aren't always... good stuff isn't generally priced cheaply, but garbage quality will be as expensive as someone can reasonably expect sell it for...), but there are always tradeoffs.
that said, if you don't have a lot of money, you could always start with bucket drums or a ukulele, and do a bit of busking in your off-hours for tips.
lol youre not getting much. These can probably be made for so cheap.
Me, who can't clap in sync: damn I wish I had this...
I love how the guy in the ad is just silently vibing
So, the instrument is called blocks and the app is called noise... creative af
Noise blocks 🤣
it's just minimalist really. sure, not that creative, but it's whatever
i dont understand the need to be really hip and minimalist
What you fucker
Lil Homo Idk, I imagine it takes up less space and is more portable.
i was waiting for it to say “each piece sold separately”
That's the only reason they made it this way
*Talent sold separately*
I’ve never actually thought about making electronic music but this company actually might get mr into it. Nice job!
This video, everything in it: Voice actor, features, music, BUTTONS, TOUCH, cut, camera. pictures, syncing everything together. I think this is definition of creativity. Feels like by brain can't even handle all those things in those 3:38.
It's Like The Apple Of Music.
O shit u right
true
Apple of Music except nobody buys it
Yeah because its so expensive no one buys it.
Yeah your right. It’s expensive but it’s definitely worth it, like apple 👍
I SEE IT
I WANT IT
*I CANT AFFORD IT*
I see it
I like it
I want it
I... don’t got it
ISEE IT
I WANT IT
I CHECK A PRICE
-__-
I SEE IT
I LIKE IT
I WANT IT
**CHECKS PRICE**
ME: NEVERMIND ._.
@@AdiNatan 1600$+
@@AdiNatan 2300
"But how can we sell someone a keyboard in 8 pieces?"
This is a really cool idea, and although most people are just fine with buying a good solid MIDI controller, BLOCKS is an amazing option for more textile people. The whole thing is built around touch, and I think that's a really cool aspect you can't get on any other MIDI controllers.
1. Insanely expensive
2. Only works with apple
3. Can do everything with cheaper plug ins and software
Great business model
So it's taking the Apple route.
@Marino The Natsarim And that's why you will never able to make heat.
1. yes
2. the fuck you talking about this is midi controller
3.software cant realy replace hardware on a live performance
Apple Only? All their shits work with Windows... it doesn’t work with Android, but nothing good does midi wise so that’s a moot point
Apple is gay
I really want to buy it!
* See the price *
Nvm, I'm going to whistle again
Haha
I can be strong for you now
This makes me feel so small because no matter what you make on this instrument there will always be more combinations you can do. There is so much one can do with such a small piece of equipment its insane.
0:27 damn i'd like this to get a full version lol
imagine cheeto fingers on this thing
tasteyblue no
tasteyblue omg I already cringed
I'd rather not (cringe attack)
tasteyblue lmao
Me: Mom can i get this for Christmas
Mom: Sure how much does It cost
Me:*looks at price* never mind
Me: Mom can i get this for Christmas
Mom: Sure how much does It cost
Me:*looks at price*
actually i realise that PS4/Xbox one/gaming PC or real imstrument, or
iPad, or full susspension bike, or car, or e-board blahblah than this crap :)
yep. grown ups toys.
i need only a small loan of a million dollars!
Freedom Fries exactly.
Freedom Fries hahahahha
That electronic part was literally.. I’m speechless, anyone with headphones is missing out
We took the synthesizer experience you knew and cut it up into little bits so we could sell it to you separately.
Brilliant.
I bought the Seaboard Block and loved it, for the first 6 months...
After a while it got boring being only able to play melodies and barely play drums. The instrument is very difficult to record with because of how glitchy the surface can be sometimes.
I recommend buying the Lightpad M because you can play melodies, drums, and use it as an XYZ pad which is way more then what the Seaboard can do plus it’s smaller and cheaper
It still so glitchy?
*BUT CAN IT DO THIS*
PewDiePie lol
-Or this-
*BUT CAN THEY DO THAT?*
Exactly
?*
Can we just take a minute to appreciate the music? Sounds amazing
This one of the coolest things I've ever seen
So much block, next update they'll add cobblestone block so you can build a fort out of music.
Lol, yes! Totally agree with this. Cobblestone is Lyfe!
I heard if you combine the Lava block with the Water block the right way you can use the result to create a portal directly into Skrillex's bathroom.
Sad's Channel I love this comment of a comment lmfao
NoobieLandCity
560th LIKE!!!!!!
Garage Band + Legos + Spotify
hahahahahahaha you got me
BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)
Glad it helped!
The fact that this was all in B made me happy
Atleast videos of these controllers aren't only for ios.
Hi, we'd love to be able to offer NOISE for Android, but there are currently limitations that make it impossible for NOISE to perform on Android devices - you can read more about that here: support.roli.com/support/solutions/articles/36000025171-why-is-noise-not-working-with-my-android-device-
And as you can see in this video, BLOCKS come with BLOCKS Dashboard and Equator Player - both of which work on Windows as well as Mac.
ROLI I already knew all this information, my problem here is that the app is just available for 3/4 really expensive android phones, and I don't have any of these devices. :/
ROLI thank you so much for understanding
is there something about Android that makes is harder to develop this app or is this just a matter of priorities?
There are still a handful of bugs/issues with the current Android version of Noise anyways, you aren't missing much yet.
This is like a razor april fools joke but its real
I didn't know that thanks its awesome... XDXDXD
Honestly, it's a great invention. This expands creativity and allows people to build their dream studio through time.
virtual design applied to phisical stuff is incredible
Legos that makes music and Is GOD DAMN EXPENSIVE.
The company secretly runs Apple
Legos are expensive too
I can see buying this and making it sound like a exactly not like the video.
For ios its terrible the touch blocks are very unresponsive and there is lots of delay when more than two things are added
Remy well, fucken, don’t try and use it with a _phone_
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👌🏾
Sound like to lazy to get one
This is this the coolest instrument i have ever seen
If they make a part that has knobs I'm 1000% buying this since it'd be so useful for synth plugin design and live playability.
Imagine charging all those pieces
Semi charmed kind of guy Got me fucked up
Docking pad?
They're all connected.😑
They're all connected
@@voli293 My english isn't the best.😅
It's like a musical Nintendo Switch
korg gadget is out for switch in new year. ;)
Hahah
What about the Labo piano?
mmmMMMMM
Yes.
Its the Labo piano but more expensive and better.
R3NO2LP Music that’s what I want for christmas
I keep coming back to watch this video for the music
TH-cam stop recommending me this, I want these things TOO MUCH.
The new minecraft noteblocks sound great
Setup at last third of the video costs 1400 bucks. yea, I'll wait...
thedvas 1310 euros.
That's actually 1500 US dollars.
Not including the MacBook? Cause that'll run you a good 800-1500
I wish i could have this instrument, it's so cool and seems way better than doing synth on computer!
This feels way too nostalgic, I might've watched this when I was around 14
Thanks to that, I've now gained some composing skills, just from watching this specific video
i love refrigerators
*Says in Chinese
I can't wait to see these crop up at Goodwill
I think this is much easier to use since gesture is the pattern for the music you want to play and it incredibly can play multiple instruments like it sounds guitar, piano, violin and so much more if you can imagine the different sounds it will make when you already try it to yourself. Oh myy GoOodnessSs. I wish I can bought one for me😭
Todays episode of "Things you will never own"
I’ll just stick to my minecraft note blocks
FL Studio in its physical form😂
someone doesnt know what physical means :3
god no
Zacky but fl studio is in real life...
@@natea5225 I think he means FL Studio if it wasn't a software
Notasona-Razeac I understand that, I was sorta making a joke and recommending that he changes his language used.
I am gonna get one of these. May take a while to save up, but it will be worth it. No price is too small to get something that fits perfectly with my playing style.
I've never been this satisfied watching just an ad
This is no joke the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Its a gimmick if u ask me
*_Have you seen boobs in your entire life?_*
Yes but these are to expensive 😢
But its so expensive
Useless controller that can do everything a normal inst.+daw setup could do, while also being LESS useful??? Holy shit!
Sorry dude, but this is some gimmicky shit for people who don’t understand the industry made by people who can appeal to 14 year-olds who really wanna get into the industry.
Literally the mobile version of garageband does everything this does
Ew garageband, fucking use Auxy for the love of fuck
Abyssal auxy costs money lol
SteviArts LoL so true. Just fire up your iPad and you’re good to go.
except for the fact that you don't get the feedback of pressing actual keyboard notes and buttons and the pressure sensitivity
@theLMGN You can connect Garageband to most keyboards with either Bluetooth or a cable.
How and why did i miss roli seaboards and those gadgets. Thats the best intrument ever that i have seen. Gosh how i badly i want one rigth now
This is the best free software Ive seen. Respect.
People:So what instruments do you play?
(Shows blocks)
Me:All of them
(Edit: Dear god, this comment got so many likes! Quite impressed)
LFCookie • or none of them :/
LFCookie • blocks is for rich brats who don't know how to play anything
Great Mallard oh...So its a nice way of wasting your money on something you will use for the first 30 minutes and get bored
LFCookie • what about the acoustic typewritter
Mr G 1324 I gotchu fam
I aint paying 200 Bucks for a little box with funky lights on it. I'd rather go to Novation for that
I'm pretty sure a Launchpad is just a funky box with lights on it that is also....$200...
Do you're research the Launchpad S cost around 100 Bucks (If you count the MK2 then yeah its 200 bucks but that one has TONS more Features then the little light box)
now this... is what i call perfection
i actually thought it was released this year! good job.
I'm gonna buy it...
When it will cost less than 50€
Never then
In your non existent dreams dude. Even though I also think they're really expensive, 50 pounds is way too cheap to produce something of this calibre.
@Inthegarden 123 I wasn't particularly aggressive
@Inthegarden 123 Hahahaha and what are you? Bruh, the only people who use "virgin" as an insult are the ones who are too insecure themselves. My first comment was just stating a fact. No aggression at all. It seems like you're the pathetic one here.
Bro, that's insanely cheap for this kind of technology
people trippin on the price of this but really its not that outrageous compared to some traditional instrumental setups ive seen
people trippin cus you can get a better controller for much less. this is a toy, and selling it piece by piece is just a way for them to charge more. They're ripping you off, in a pretty smart way
Alex Forte you can get the same things on a computer for free and similar things in real life for half the price
Alex Forte seriously? just buy a $500 piano and boom its way better, and like if you want to play a song you need way more than like 12 keys
Cyrillic lmao you do not know what the fuck you’re talking about dumbass
Alex Forte ya that’s true
I have just bought a seaboard block, loop block and a lightpad from eBay and I can't wait for it to arrive 😁😁😁😁
Imagine seeing someone doing this in a restaurant filled with people enjoying their food, then they just hear the guy doing good jams
Now for only 300$ for the seaboard block and a small fee of 200$ to get the lightpad block M, don't forget the M for we have a block for letters A, B, C basically the entire english alphabet for only 200$ each.For full control buy the loop block, live block and the touch block for only 100$ each. We recommend buying 3 of each for extreme control of the instrument. (what i'm trying to say is that this costs too much m8)
OH WAIT, who couldn't forget about the songmaker kit which only costs a measly 599$
but i want to release n o i s e
and that whole set up only cost $1500??? Forget my hopes of ever having the chance to play blocks.
exactly...
here is little example, of what you can afford
• The Pioneer DJ XDJ-RX2 will be available for US$1699 from September 2017.
www.digitaldjtips.com/2017/09/pioneer-dj-officially-launches-xdj-rx2-one-system/
nice example how much they try fuck with us...
This is a turnable :|
ikr
in my country $1500 x 4.
rip
@@thehamster7949 you're lucky, mine is 1500 x 50.
@@niko-oy1cq
you know it's still the sane amount of money? maybe little less, maybe little more. It depends on the country.
I can so see Jordan Rudess adding this to his stage setup!!!
Roli's ads are the only ones i watch on repeat because of the songs
Oh neat I'll just grab the thousands of pounds I have lying around and get all this weird ass equipment that I'll have no clue how to use
It's even more expensive than the iphone
Not much
Well obviously you have to know how to use stuff like this first
use a real currency britbong
@@mikevivian9570 oh yeah he will sure get something else to use in hhhis country, sure, surely
The block idea is cool but the actual capabilities of the complete instrument should be the main thing they should advertise instead of the block shit.
imagine needing all the 88 keys, that’ll cost thousands of dollars only for the keys
But they didn't make a new instrument it's for production
The design is tight! wowowowow
Futuristic music production is something 👍👍 ❤️ from India
Me:Oooo that’s awesome totally buy
Price:*exists
Me:Well there goes my interest
You guys are doing great things for the music community! :)
WOW! THAT IS SOOO GOD DAMN AWESOME!
This is great, thank you!
I was expecting him to say also get our cheap app
**Checks price**
**Cries**
I have to say, this is an amazing advert. So much coordination is needed between the video, music and voice over. I'm tempted to get one even though I'm not really interested in electronic music (P.S. I'm a pianist)
I was waiting for the "And you can even play underwater" :D
For the price of it, it should
To show you the power of ROLI blocks, we cut your life savings in half
I remember watching this as a kid and discovering a new world. If my parents had to buy that, I would have gone to a sound engineer or compositor career.
Now I'm going to a 3D artist / Game map developper engineer.