Roli Beatmaker Kit, Includes Lightpad Block M and Loop Block

Unleash Your Beats
Beatmaker Kit gives you everything you need to take your beats to the next level, whether you're making your first track or honing your technique. Learn finger drumming skills, play with hundreds of expressive sounds, and complete your track with a suite of software. It's an all-in-one package for making beats, wherever your musical ideas strike.

Learn to play beats
Finger drumming is fun with Melodics, the desktop app for learning beat-making technique. Begin with the basics or challenge yourself to play complex patterns. Melodics now features a plug-and-play integration with the Lightpad Block and Loop Block. Explore hundreds of lessons with a six month subscription that comes with your kit.

Play drums and melodies
The 5D Touch surface of the Lightpad Block will transform your beats. Drum on a tactile, touch-responsive surface. Add unparalleled expression to melodic parts by pressing into the surface and gliding or sliding around it

Explore hundreds of sounds
Beatmaker Kit includes over 300 sounds in desktop and mobile applications. All sounds, from strings to drums, are custom-made for 5D Touch on the Lightpad Block's unique surface. Ten special soundpacks from ROLI's iOS app NOISE are included. Explore Cinematica, Distorted Bliss, and other sounds in NOISE below:

Cinematica by ROLI
A soundpack that's so beautiful it's destined for Hollywood. Huge cinematic sounds swirl and evolve with 5D Touch. Explore sumptuous strings, otherworldly drones, ghostly pianos, and exotic textures. You might be surprised how this drama ends.

Produce your tracks
Edit and complete your track with powerful production software. Beatmaker Kit comes with a custom version of Ableton Live Lite, and it's also compatible with a huge range of other digital audio workstations (DAWs) including GarageBand.

The Loop Block gives you shortcuts to useful production techniques, so you can build your tracks even faster. Record loops, play them back, set your tempo and more.

Create with a full suite of software
Whether you're learning, playing or producing, the Beatmaker Kit is bundled with an extensive set of software programs for desktop and mobile to help you start making better songs and tracks.

Learn

Melodics
Jam along to interactive lessons to build your finger drumming and beatmaking skills with Melodics, the online educational platform. (6-month free subscription included with Beatmaker Kit.)

Play

NOISE for iOS
Sketch your musical ideas and start building tracks with NOISE, a free app that includes hundreds of sounds. NOISE pairs wirelessly with Beatmaker Kit, so you can play anywhere you have a connected device. iOS only.

Equator Player
Browse 200+ free expressive sounds on a desktop sound player based on Equator, ROLI's flagship soft synth and sound engine.

Strobe2 Player
A desktop sound player version of the acclaimed Strobe2 polysynth from FXpansion. Play 50 expressive presets and explore 3 macro controls.

Cypher2 Player
A desktop sound player version of the premium Cypher2 software synth from FXpansion. Play 50 expressive presets and 3 macro controls.

Produce

Ableton Live Lite
Turn the Beatmaker Kit into a portable controller for Ableton Live Lite, the renowned digital audio workstation (DAW). Through a customized integration you can play instruments, create tracks and launch within Ableton Live with the Lightpad surface.

ROLI Dashboard
Control Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) and desktop software programs with ROLI Dashboard. Plug Beatmaker Kit into your workflow, customize your surface, and use your Kit as a controller for Ableton Live, Logic Pro X and many more.

BLOCKS works with programs including:
• Apple: Logic Pro, GarageBand
• FXpansion: Strobe2, Cypher2
• Native Instruments: Kontakt, Massive
• Bitwig: Studio
• Ableton: Live
• Audio Modeling: SWAM
• Cycling '74: MaxMSP
• Spectrasonics: Omnisphere

Go anywhere with your music
Beatmaker Kit travels with you wherever you want to make music. Wireless, lightweight and with a surface the size of a postcard, it empowers you to create tracks anywhere.

Connect your Beatmaker Kit to the NOISE iOS app for a completely mobile music experience. Even when you connect to desktop software, you can still fit your Kit in a backpack with a laptop computer.