Damn! Thank you for explaining this so well. I tried to explain how you can make excellent music without necessarily knowing the notes. Ppl said I was an idiot. Rudiment patterns are an EXCELLENT description. Thank you!
What is he talking about here. I've played the piano/synths since 1974. I have been using synths for as long. I've never heard of that concept for making music (aside from the standard definition). I don't use any sort of DAW however (strictly hardware) but again unsure what he was even talking about. For drum patterns, I've even started getting away from drum machines). I like the sounds but not the synthetic flow...so just use any of my synths. JD-XA, as an example, it has virtually ever machine so if I want to play the 909 I just load that preset, and play the keys and sequence them. Done.
I thought I was going to hear someone like on a Unison commercial which makes me nauseous. Instead, I heard a great musician play the keys like a keyboard player with both hands. Great job and there is nothing out there that compares to ROLI. Thanks for taking on the challenge for us.
I really enjoyed this - I love your authentic approach and a different way to construct the music using a rudimental approach, as a percussionist this really resonated with me. I have the music in my head but lack the ability/talent to get it out because I have no knowledge of chord structures etc so this gave me great hope to try a different way. Of course I will have to experiment to make harmonic melodies but starting with the elemental beat is really a new dimension for me, I have no idea why I didn’t think of it myself! Thank you, great vid
Love your channel name. A great musician can always make a awesome tune even when well out of their confront zone. Awesome work and thanks for the video man :)
When one knows music like you very well, there is nothing that can stop it! Although I really appreciate your complete finger drumming technique that makes you unique!
Thanks Robert! I completely agree. The largest part of music making is in your brain :-) That's why it's easier to learn another instrument when you can already play one. There are so many things in terms of melody and harmony and rhythm that are just in your head and all you have to figure out is how to translate. Way easier than learning 'music' from scratch.
Thanks David, I'm taking things a bit slow on TH-cam at the moment, but I will be back and I happen to know that the next video will have another awesome song in it! :-)
That was brilliant. I used roli products at a modular synth convention a few wks. I really liked them. I didn't know that though about holding the keys for longer for different expressions.
Yeah, that works specifically with a synth like Equator. Another great instrument is the SWAM series. Cellos, violins, woodwinds, super realistic. MPE is a gamechanger for expressiveness in software instruments but the software has to support it. For example kontakt does not make use if mpe so all of those sounds might as well be played on a regular keyboard.
I have been looking at the Seaboard a lot recently not just because it looks like something that could let me do realistic violins/cellos/flutes, but also just because of its sheer portability. I can't seem to get a good impression of how well I could use this on the road just as a simple piano for very basic chords in some songs. People focus on its expressiveness, but its sheer size and weight make it perfect for stuffing in a backpack when I travel. I don't expect it to replace a nice large piano when I'm at home.
Well you can play it like a piano but those squishy keys make it feel different. So for some simple tunes it would be fine, otherwise for more "piano virtuoso" stuff you might want to get something that has some sort of hammer action or spring thing going on.
@@TheQuestforGroove Yeah, I know it'd be a compromise, but I can just slide that into a sleeve and put it in my backpack. I can't think of another more traditional keyboard I could do that with. I mean, with practice and patience, could it record simply on-handed piano chords that sounded good? I like melancholic, minimalist piano and solo strings in my recordings.
I followed your finger drumming lesson (Maschine) and actually played it on the Roli Lightpad Block (since I needed portability more for now). Haha thanks for the inspiration again!
Yes I did that actually. With the lightpad it's not as much the sensitivity as it is how it responds to my playing style and then especially how it calculates the velocities of the hits. With my way of playing it is not as consistent as a traditional pad controller.
Hmmm...for a guitarist who claims not being able to 'play the piano' you have a very quick left hand when entering the bass on the Roli...are you a lefty by the way? Cool approach dude.
Thanks! Finger drumming really helps with those type of movements. I spent a lot of time getting a solid left hand for tapping the pads so these types of patterns come out easily!
Hey I absolutely loved this video! Just saying, with the flute part, i think that it could’ve used a tiny bit more vibrato, but what you did is very impressive!
Haha thanks, you seem like a real flute connoisseur! Adding vibrato is quite convenient with the seaboard but it still takes practice to execute perfectly. I bet that with some more practice it would be even better. Have a great day!
the secret is having lots of musical experience in general. I mean, I did play guitar for two decades and most of that stuff end up in your head. The fingers too, but mostly the head. So yeah, that's the secret. Lots of years making music! :-)
For MPE my favourite controller right now is actually the Linnstrument. Quite expensive but it's really awesome in its expressiveness. It's also easy to understand for guitar players like me :-)
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Great video as ever! My question is how well does the keyboard respond to your finger drumming technique? Does it respond as well as the Maschine pads? Also I love the completely staged MacBook borrowing. 😆
Haha, so glad you enjoyed that little scene :-) The keyboard responds pretty well actually, but I don't know... for finger drumming theres something weird about it being so soft. As i f you're hitting a mattress or something. Its feels unnatural to really play percussive stuff on it. But it's a nice piece of equipment. I also compared it to linnstrument and found linnstrument to be even more expressive when using it to play flute. But hey that's a $1500 device... :-)
Het geheim is dat ik natuurlijk stiekem veel ervaring heb met muziek maken in het algemeen. Als ik niet al 20 jaar gitaar speelde had ik dit niet in 1x zo kunnen doen. Het grootste deel van muziek zit toch in je hoofd, niet in je vingers.
Interestingly enough, as a guitar player with a Seaboard Rise 49, I have come to the same conclusion... I don't play it like keys (which I can play in a rudimentary way). I'm not much of a finger-drummer, either, although I have been practicing based on your tutorials. Anyway, I have found that playing the Seaboard in this way is much more rewarding than trying to play it like it had discrete keys.
I agree that you will need a few years of experience before you can just casually do something like this :-) that's true, but it's not impossible! I still remember the first time I ever wrote a song in conservatory when I was 19. I did not know what to do so I 'stole' the intro theme from that SNES game Chrono Trigger and made a variation on it :-). It slowly got easier over time. You gotta start doing in though.
Hi sir m a beginner have zero knowledge about traditional instruments like piano and guitar . But I really liking this instrument specially with roli light blocks what do you think how to should I begin can I learn this device without knowing much about music like other instruments like push 2 or mk3
@@TheQuestforGroove After two days since I'v heard this "test song" and I still hear it in my head - it's so catchy! I'm just starting with ROLI, I love it how it looks and a got it to help me get back to making music. I have a hearing loss, can't hear anything higher than 1.5khz, so I can't really use the NOISE app, because you can't change the tone of the click in it and I can't hear it :D I use it with my iPad Pro and after 4 hours of trying to figure out why there is such a delay when you play SEABOARD or LIGHTPAD, I found out it's because I had a bluetooth mouse connected as well :)) Anyway, yesterday I finally started making music and I love ROLI in overall point of view, I just need to get into the moment when you don't think about how are you using it, you just feel music and do it without limits. Your video gives me hope it is possible!
Well, things can change for the better! All I can tell you is that if you put in a little bit of work each day practicing you'll get results and you won't suck anymore. But is does take time. And yes... you need some money to get started.
Hearing a lot of other reviews give negative marks to the light-box as a drum machine at least, due to inconsistency with the pressure detection being recorded especially...have you run into those issues?
Yes it happens to me too. I suspect it happens mostly when hitting 2 pressure points at the same time with the same hand. That surface cannot deal with that type of info. As soon as I use two hands they arrive a few milliseconds apart from each other and the device responds a lot better.
Honestly I think the best way to go is to start learning some piano chords :-) I learned some good stuff from these books: www.timrichards.ndo.co.uk/jazzpianotuition.html
Thanks for the video. Long live Ron Burgundy! I am a flute player and, when I mention that to most men, they refer to Ron. Any publicity is good publicity(?). In any case, your video proves it is not the instrument, it’s the musician. I enjoyed your music very much. I have the Seaboard and Lightblock M; they help me, a non-piano player, make music with a different instrument. Do you still use yours?
Right now they're being used by a friend of mine. I let him borrow them because I'm more focused on my maschine mk3 and linnstrument at the moment. But they'll be back! Haha yeah Ron burgundy. Must get a little old that people mention him of all people when you're serious about flute :-)
Hey there! Nice video and nice groove! :-) I think you did a really great job ;-) Playing piano like a drummer - next: apply this approach to your Guitar! :-D
@@TheQuestforGroove thanks for letting me know my beats are getting better and I been looking for a mini keyboard to help me get to the next step all I been doing my best on is a old windows 7 that I updated to a windows 10 and my iPhone. Thank you for doing this video I can see you have years doing what you do.
Just bought a regular songmaker kit myself! I’m not a piano player either. Any tips to get familiar and get better at playing when composing tracks? Love your vids! Just subscribed!
I'm sorry but I have no idea :-( I gave this device to a friend after making this video so I haven't been checking it out since then. I do know that there were some big updates, but I cannot tell you if they fixed this specific problem.
Haha yeah... i actually tried to do affiliate links for a couple of months through Amazon but I kept getting banned by them for not following all of their 440583 rules... gave up after that. I might try again but right now my premium courses are the only sponsor of this youtube channel!
I did. It works fine with my windows laptop but that said: the lightpad block is not the best thing for finger drumming in my opinion! There might also be some 'lag' in how both the seaboard and the lightpad block respond because of their squishyness. It's a fun kit and I love the roli equator synth but personally I'm not switching to this as my main rig for music making anytime soon :-)
No it can be used with any computer. The kit I was testing had some stuff exclusively for garageband in it and I told Roli I would test that so I needed a mac. But the controllers cabn actually be used with any computer and all kinds of DAWs
@@TheQuestforGroove yeah i passed on the roli was not good for abelton ..but i did solve the mpd226 issue...what i did was i connected it directly to midi using the ac power and set my audio out buffer to 128 or 64 and bam no double trigger on my double kicks lol
This is called "the roli song maker kit". It consists of 3 blocks that you can use together. A block for fingerdrumming called lightpad block, a seaboard block which is like a piano and a control block with buttons like "play" and "record". All sounds come from apple garageband.
Roli is really cool thing. I started with 0 experience in music with roli seaboard block alone. Now i have Songmaker kit as well which means i have 4 octaves + drum kit. it is really hard to apply common piano\drums lessons just because ROLI is small + without additional settings it has zero tolerance to mistakes, I immediately hear that velocity or duration was wrong. It is really hard to use ROLI for beginners. BUT what doesn't kill us makes us better. I really enjoy playing with ROLI today, even with simple but high quality techniques i have learned, i can really relax and play what i want and hear MY own beautiful sounds. This realy helps in real life to overcome own barriers and move further. I really appreciate this tutorial, i hope you will do more. Something like Beginner Course but using ROLI block or song maker kit. Nowadays there are a lot of promotion videos but there are no good beginner tutorials for ROLI. Now I know that everything is possible with ROLI but i have spend more then 2 years practicing alone with no support. Which is quite high price for already pricey toys.
Well... yes and no. The device and software is easy to use but you need experience in music making to quickly come up with melodies and chords and stuff like that, that will not feel effortless in the beginning!
Loved the video... just subscribed!!! I was searching for some roli reviews came across this one... I've watched around 20 videos for the song maker kit (not exagerating) this is the best one yet... I also want one but for the rest of the people watching I came across the problem that this is 600 u.s. dlls. Very expensive as u can see. I guess I got to save up.
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Damn! Thank you for explaining this so well. I tried to explain how you can make excellent music without necessarily knowing the notes. Ppl said I was an idiot.
Rudiment patterns are an EXCELLENT description. Thank you!
That explanation of how to take rudiment thinking to playing other instruments was really interesting.
What is he talking about here. I've played the piano/synths since 1974. I have been using synths for as long. I've never heard of that concept for making music (aside from the standard definition). I don't use any sort of DAW however (strictly hardware) but again unsure what he was even talking about.
For drum patterns, I've even started getting away from drum machines). I like the sounds but not the synthetic flow...so just use any of my synths. JD-XA, as an example, it has virtually ever machine so if I want to play the 909 I just load that preset, and play the keys and sequence them. Done.
"I'm unleashing the music for ROLI...I'll unleash the music then I'll return it!" I was laughing so hard at that
Hahaha. Apparently over at Roli they also thought it was very funny even though I was blatantly making fun of their "tagline" :-)
That has me laughing over here too. :)
Wicked! really good. And For a non keys player you're kicking some serious transferable skills across! Sounds awesome.
Thanks man! I am working on learning to play Linnstrument for real, so that I can lay down some smooth sounding keys in a few months! :-)
I'm inspired to train more difficult sequences as it really pays off.
Word son, facts
Brilliant little groove. The whole embracing limitations thing is kinda reminiscent of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies. Very inspiring. I like.
Thank you, that means a lot!
For someone that doesn't play piano, your accuracy on a fiddly microtonal synth is pretty amazing
I thought I was going to hear someone like on a Unison commercial which makes me nauseous. Instead, I heard a great musician play the keys like a keyboard player with both hands. Great job and there is nothing out there that compares to ROLI. Thanks for taking on the challenge for us.
Ah thats very, very nice of you to say! Thanks and I'll use these feathers up my ass to make more content :-)
Alrighty then!
U r killing it
Thank you!
That was an excel groove! I feel like getting the ROLI now for my setup. You did a great job
I really enjoyed this - I love your authentic approach and a different way to construct the music using a rudimental approach, as a percussionist this really resonated with me. I have the music in my head but lack the ability/talent to get it out because I have no knowledge of chord structures etc so this gave me great hope to try a different way. Of course I will have to experiment to make harmonic melodies but starting with the elemental beat is really a new dimension for me, I have no idea why I didn’t think of it myself! Thank you, great vid
That was amazing! That flute was so realistic with the MPE.
Thanks a lot!
Love your channel name. A great musician can always make a awesome tune even when well out of their confront zone. Awesome work and thanks for the video man :)
Thanks! Totally agree. Crush that comfort zone as often as you can :-)
When one knows music like you very well, there is nothing that can stop it! Although I really appreciate your complete finger drumming technique that makes you unique!
Thanks Robert! I completely agree. The largest part of music making is in your brain :-) That's why it's easier to learn another instrument when you can already play one. There are so many things in terms of melody and harmony and rhythm that are just in your head and all you have to figure out is how to translate. Way easier than learning 'music' from scratch.
I agree with you!
Wow! One of the most succinct and musically pleasing things I’ve seen in YT Land.
I’m a new subscriber in a heartbeat.
Thanks David, I'm taking things a bit slow on TH-cam at the moment, but I will be back and I happen to know that the next video will have another awesome song in it! :-)
Wao! You’re so good, 😃got me breaking out of my shell 🐚😂👍
thank you for the captions!
That was brilliant. I used roli products at a modular synth convention a few wks. I really liked them. I didn't know that though about holding the keys for longer for different expressions.
Yeah, that works specifically with a synth like Equator. Another great instrument is the SWAM series. Cellos, violins, woodwinds, super realistic. MPE is a gamechanger for expressiveness in software instruments but the software has to support it. For example kontakt does not make use if mpe so all of those sounds might as well be played on a regular keyboard.
I have been looking at the Seaboard a lot recently not just because it looks like something that could let me do realistic violins/cellos/flutes, but also just because of its sheer portability. I can't seem to get a good impression of how well I could use this on the road just as a simple piano for very basic chords in some songs. People focus on its expressiveness, but its sheer size and weight make it perfect for stuffing in a backpack when I travel. I don't expect it to replace a nice large piano when I'm at home.
Well you can play it like a piano but those squishy keys make it feel different. So for some simple tunes it would be fine, otherwise for more "piano virtuoso" stuff you might want to get something that has some sort of hammer action or spring thing going on.
@@TheQuestforGroove Yeah, I know it'd be a compromise, but I can just slide that into a sleeve and put it in my backpack. I can't think of another more traditional keyboard I could do that with. I mean, with practice and patience, could it record simply on-handed piano chords that sounded good? I like melancholic, minimalist piano and solo strings in my recordings.
Yeah for sure. Just takes some time getting used to it but then itll be fine.
I followed your finger drumming lesson (Maschine) and actually played it on the Roli Lightpad Block (since I needed portability more for now). Haha thanks for the inspiration again!
You're welcome!
" Unleashinggggggggggg the Roli best " Great video !!!
A minute and a half in and I'm enthralled
You can increase the sensitivity on the lightpad to make it more responsive
Yes I did that actually. With the lightpad it's not as much the sensitivity as it is how it responds to my playing style and then especially how it calculates the velocities of the hits. With my way of playing it is not as consistent as a traditional pad controller.
I use this approach all the time on my Push 2!
Well you may not play the piano, but you do a pretty good impression of it! Loved that track 👍
Hmmm...for a guitarist who claims not being able to 'play the piano' you have a very quick left hand when entering the bass on the Roli...are you a lefty by the way? Cool approach dude.
Thanks! Finger drumming really helps with those type of movements. I spent a lot of time getting a solid left hand for tapping the pads so these types of patterns come out easily!
Hey I absolutely loved this video!
Just saying, with the flute part, i think that it could’ve used a tiny bit more vibrato, but what you did is very impressive!
Haha thanks, you seem like a real flute connoisseur! Adding vibrato is quite convenient with the seaboard but it still takes practice to execute perfectly. I bet that with some more practice it would be even better. Have a great day!
This is really cool and well done :) Good job working over those difficulties aha.
This sounds like Soulstice: Illusion! Awesome bud.
Hey Rob, I'm glad that you could unleash your music! ^^
Me too man, me too... :-)
Always something dope to be heard, or inspiration to be had on this channel 🙌
I havent played piano
*creates dope chord progression
the secret is having lots of musical experience in general. I mean, I did play guitar for two decades and most of that stuff end up in your head. The fingers too, but mostly the head. So yeah, that's the secret. Lots of years making music! :-)
So cooooooool!
This was great and well done video enjoined it very much !
MPE looks fun as hell! Another thing I'm gonna have to research it looks like. XD
For MPE my favourite controller right now is actually the Linnstrument. Quite expensive but it's really awesome in its expressiveness. It's also easy to understand for guitar players like me :-)
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15 cm x 3.5cm foam space
17 x 8 x 0.8 max space w/o foam
13.5 x 2.5 actual oem
2300mAh 8.51
Wh 6028135
3.7v
note: newer higher capacity batteries available
remove hidden torx screws from bottom rim
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Lovely song man.
Awesome as always!
Great video as ever! My question is how well does the keyboard respond to your finger drumming technique? Does it respond as well as the Maschine pads? Also I love the completely staged MacBook borrowing. 😆
Haha, so glad you enjoyed that little scene :-)
The keyboard responds pretty well actually, but I don't know... for finger drumming theres something weird about it being so soft. As i f you're hitting a mattress or something. Its feels unnatural to really play percussive stuff on it. But it's a nice piece of equipment.
I also compared it to linnstrument and found linnstrument to be even more expressive when using it to play flute. But hey that's a $1500 device... :-)
Wow! Incredible
the solution to the „first“ problem was hilarious xD
Haha, I forgot about that. Your comment made me laugh out loud at my own joke just now :-)
The Quest for Groove ^^ I‘ve rewatched that part for at least three times)) so you‘re more than welcome(;
I guess your understanding of notes and accords still helped you to play the keys. Well done
Yes absolutely!
Well put together and informative video, thank you.
This was really cool!
Super hoe je zonder enige ervaring met het instrument, zo’n geluid eruit kan toveren!👍🏾
Het geheim is dat ik natuurlijk stiekem veel ervaring heb met muziek maken in het algemeen. Als ik niet al 20 jaar gitaar speelde had ik dit niet in 1x zo kunnen doen. Het grootste deel van muziek zit toch in je hoofd, niet in je vingers.
Interestingly enough, as a guitar player with a Seaboard Rise 49, I have come to the same conclusion... I don't play it like keys (which I can play in a rudimentary way). I'm not much of a finger-drummer, either, although I have been practicing based on your tutorials. Anyway, I have found that playing the Seaboard in this way is much more rewarding than trying to play it like it had discrete keys.
Haha it might be the "guitar player mind" or something! :-)
@@TheQuestforGroove Or the frustrated percussionist.
Nice demonstration!
The problem is that it gives the impression that I can get the same results even though I don't have your talent!
I agree that you will need a few years of experience before you can just casually do something like this :-) that's true, but it's not impossible!
I still remember the first time I ever wrote a song in conservatory when I was 19. I did not know what to do so I 'stole' the intro theme from that SNES game Chrono Trigger and made a variation on it :-).
It slowly got easier over time. You gotta start doing in though.
great feel man, sensational. I want one!
Love it, where can we find this song ?
It is just a demo! This is all there is unfortunately 🙂Thanks for your kind words.
Very funky keep up the good work 🤝
Thank you!!
Hi sir m a beginner have zero knowledge about traditional instruments like piano and guitar . But I really liking this instrument specially with roli light blocks what do you think how to should I begin can I learn this device without knowing much about music like other instruments like push 2 or mk3
Yeah I think you can. It's a very playful tool! I do recommend to maybe finding some sort of basic piano chords course or something.
Groovy man! Do more jams:)
Yeah that's one of my plans for 2019! More jams!
nice vid man really helpful
love jazzy mood and you are good at ROLI already lol
Thanks!
Awesome bro,,love from India
Love back from Amsterdam!
I love you, man!
Love you back!
@@TheQuestforGroove After two days since I'v heard this "test song" and I still hear it in my head - it's so catchy! I'm just starting with ROLI, I love it how it looks and a got it to help me get back to making music. I have a hearing loss, can't hear anything higher than 1.5khz, so I can't really use the NOISE app, because you can't change the tone of the click in it and I can't hear it :D I use it with my iPad Pro and after 4 hours of trying to figure out why there is such a delay when you play SEABOARD or LIGHTPAD, I found out it's because I had a bluetooth mouse connected as well :)) Anyway, yesterday I finally started making music and I love ROLI in overall point of view, I just need to get into the moment when you don't think about how are you using it, you just feel music and do it without limits. Your video gives me hope it is possible!
Wow, an inspiring story! I think it's amazing and exactly the right frame of mind that you're in Adam. Kudos!
Flute is called bansuri in hindi. :) Glad
very nice ....
Holy damn! That crap was AMAZING! sadly im broke for this and i suck at djing so idk
Well, things can change for the better! All I can tell you is that if you put in a little bit of work each day practicing you'll get results and you won't suck anymore. But is does take time. And yes... you need some money to get started.
Hearing a lot of other reviews give negative marks to the light-box as a drum machine at least, due to inconsistency with the pressure detection being recorded especially...have you run into those issues?
Yes it happens to me too. I suspect it happens mostly when hitting 2 pressure points at the same time with the same hand. That surface cannot deal with that type of info. As soon as I use two hands they arrive a few milliseconds apart from each other and the device responds a lot better.
@@TheQuestforGroove Thanks for confirming that so quickly!
any tips on how to play songs like these because i'm a drummer but I don't really know how to play the piano
Honestly I think the best way to go is to start learning some piano chords :-) I learned some good stuff from these books: www.timrichards.ndo.co.uk/jazzpianotuition.html
Really so good 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Cool :) Btw what's the difference between Songmaker kit and the GarageBand edition?
Basically nothing :-) you get like 50 sounds for garageband and that's it. For the rest the same stuff.
@@TheQuestforGroove Thank you ^^
Thanks for the video. Long live Ron Burgundy! I am a flute player and, when I mention that to most men, they refer to Ron. Any publicity is good publicity(?). In any case, your video proves it is not the instrument, it’s the musician. I enjoyed your music very much. I have the Seaboard and Lightblock M; they help me, a non-piano player, make music with a different instrument. Do you still use yours?
Right now they're being used by a friend of mine. I let him borrow them because I'm more focused on my maschine mk3 and linnstrument at the moment. But they'll be back! Haha yeah Ron burgundy. Must get a little old that people mention him of all people when you're serious about flute :-)
Hey there! Nice video and nice groove! :-) I think you did a really great job ;-) Playing piano like a drummer - next: apply this approach to your Guitar! :-D
Thanks man! Happy to use the lightpad block some more!
Looking forward to hearing some more Lighted grooves ;-)
You can use that for Ableton live in Windows.
Yes actually. It can be used with all computers and daws
Hey I wanted to see how much would it be if I wanted to get it and also would you sell it or do a give away.
Hey I already gave it away to a friend of mine after doing the video :-)
@@TheQuestforGroove thanks for letting me know my beats are getting better and I been looking for a mini keyboard to help me get to the next step all I been doing my best on is a old windows 7 that I updated to a windows 10 and my iPhone. Thank you for doing this video I can see you have years doing what you do.
Loved how you got your Mac!
Yeah, more people should try it. It's a lot cheaper than buying one!
Just bought a regular songmaker kit myself! I’m not a piano player either. Any tips to get familiar and get better at playing when composing tracks? Love your vids! Just subscribed!
@@midsoulmusic for piano I tried Flowkey for a while. I think it's a nice way to learn songs!
very good! you can tell you're a finger drummer with your thumb tucked under your index finger.
did they fix the problem with the dead notes keep playing till you stop it on software
I'm sorry but I have no idea :-( I gave this device to a friend after making this video so I haven't been checking it out since then. I do know that there were some big updates, but I cannot tell you if they fixed this specific problem.
awesome! could u pls make a video about how to set up them?
Thanks! I'll keep that in mind!
Thanks a lot@@TheQuestforGroove
If you make this song quieter and add a cozy ambiance, it would make for great music in an open world game.
Haha yes I can see that actually!
The jazz flute comment earned you 1 like 😆
I miss a Link to that Rolli songmaker kit.. could be your referal..😉
Haha yeah... i actually tried to do affiliate links for a couple of months through Amazon but I kept getting banned by them for not following all of their 440583 rules... gave up after that. I might try again but right now my premium courses are the only sponsor of this youtube channel!
Could this work with GarageBand on my iPhone
Probably with some extra latency!
As a strings player, I'm legitimately surprised you didn't use the slide and vibrato functionality of the seaboard.
Well, you didn't watch till the end then. I'm going all out with the Ron Burgundy jazz flute :-) Gotta lay down the 'band' first though.
I did, but I'll admit I was doing stuff while listening toward the end. I must have missed that. :X
NICCCEEE
Have you tried it with windows? I have read that it doesn't work well with windows (I'm also a PC only user)
I did. It works fine with my windows laptop but that said: the lightpad block is not the best thing for finger drumming in my opinion! There might also be some 'lag' in how both the seaboard and the lightpad block respond because of their squishyness. It's a fun kit and I love the roli equator synth but personally I'm not switching to this as my main rig for music making anytime soon :-)
dose this work with logic
Yes its not just for garageband.
so this is an APPLE ONLY? not cubase? not windows?
No it can be used with any computer. The kit I was testing had some stuff exclusively for garageband in it and I told Roli I would test that so I needed a mac. But the controllers cabn actually be used with any computer and all kinds of DAWs
i found a used roli for 200 should i get it with my pigments i will make a video since no one else has lol
Sounds like a good deal!
@@TheQuestforGroove yeah i passed on the roli was not good for abelton ..but i did solve the mpd226 issue...what i did was i connected it directly to midi using the ac power and set my audio out buffer to 128 or 64 and bam no double trigger on my double kicks lol
Wow!!!
What gadget do you use for this video?
This is called "the roli song maker kit". It consists of 3 blocks that you can use together. A block for fingerdrumming called lightpad block, a seaboard block which is like a piano and a control block with buttons like "play" and "record".
All sounds come from apple garageband.
Roli is really cool thing. I started with 0 experience in music with roli seaboard block alone. Now i have Songmaker kit as well which means i have 4 octaves + drum kit. it is really hard to apply common piano\drums lessons just because ROLI is small + without additional settings it has zero tolerance to mistakes, I immediately hear that velocity or duration was wrong. It is really hard to use ROLI for beginners.
BUT what doesn't kill us makes us better. I really enjoy playing with ROLI today, even with simple but high quality techniques i have learned, i can really relax and play what i want and hear MY own beautiful sounds. This realy helps in real life to overcome own barriers and move further.
I really appreciate this tutorial, i hope you will do more. Something like Beginner Course but using ROLI block or song maker kit. Nowadays there are a lot of promotion videos but there are no good beginner tutorials for ROLI. Now I know that everything is possible with ROLI but i have spend more then 2 years practicing alone with no support. Which is quite high price for already pricey toys.
I know absolutely nothing about producing music but this seems really simple is it?
Well... yes and no. The device and software is easy to use but you need experience in music making to quickly come up with melodies and chords and stuff like that, that will not feel effortless in the beginning!
@@TheQuestforGroove I'm just a kid a with a creative mind I can assure u I can come up with song in one day😂
Maybe you're blessed with a lot of talent then! It won't be that way for most people!
I HAVE TO UNLEASH THE MUSIC AND I'LL RETURN IT!! 🤣🤣🤣
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play this at half speed its fye lol
Wat daw did u used?
This is GarageBand. But I normally use Cubase!
Pickle Rick!!
I miss Rick & Morty! Why no new season??
@@TheQuestforGroove me too! It's my favorite cartoon next to" dr. Katz - professional therapist " do you know that one?
@@Marrcello No, guess I gotta check it out since Rik will not return.
you can use this stuff with pc btw. i do
they are a very mac oriented company. i had to borrow someones iphone to update the control block
Awww that's lame. You would think you could do that with the roli dashboard?!
He says "only this" when this shit costs more than a ps5 lmao
Good video tho
But with your PS5 you don't create the game you play, my friend ;-)
You need a Mac for this?
No, the challenge was make something with garageband and that's mac only. The hardware can be used with pc!
@@TheQuestforGroove thanks for clarifying. Amature me
Why do you look like pewdiepie in a costume!!! Also great beats from simple blocks!!!
Well... you caught me! :-)
@@TheQuestforGroove no on a real note. Lol. Great music you r a music guru im subscribed!!!
@@Andreenal happy to have you on board!
damn
Have you seen Neon Vines using the same setup? Have a look:
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Yeah lots of fun!!!
Loved the video... just subscribed!!! I was searching for some roli reviews came across this one... I've watched around 20 videos for the song maker kit (not exagerating) this is the best one yet... I also want one but for the rest of the people watching I came across the problem that this is 600 u.s. dlls. Very expensive as u can see. I guess I got to save up.
Yeah I personally think it's a bit much, but that equator synthesizer is pretty awesome and you get that one for free as well!
Its only $399 at guitar center in California.
Do a giveaway with this! Please! I need one!!!!!!
I thought you’d do this on an iPhone or iPad
I guess you can, I only had my girlfriends macbook. I'm PC + Android. :-)
the first thing this man plays gives me stank face... oh no
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