#1

Several people were bemoaning the state of the ROLI NOISE app in the Roli Blocks thread, and it looks like they’re trying to course correct. They’ve re-release the original UI in the form of a straight-up publicity tool for the Seaboard Rise in the form of the Seaboard 5D [iTunes link].

“Update To The NOISE App” AKA why Seaboard is its own thing

Thoughts on splitting the two? Utility of Blocks with or without the original app functionality?

#2

they said they’d made a mistake removing the features from noise on the day of its blocks release (on facebook after complaints)

this seems to be a stop gap/quick fix, as they have also said:

which I think implies the two apps will be combined, but that takes a bit more dev effort.

basically it comes down to a few things

  • people bought ‘packs’ for the original app, so they couldn’t just take those away
  • they did quite a bit of marketing showing the RISE ‘on the move’ using the noise app (in a similar way to the way they did with blocks) , so again… you can’t really take that away.

one interesting omission on the new noise app, is the ability to allow any MPE controller to use it.
I think it will be interesting when they add back the Seaboard interface, if they also add this ability back, or keep it a closed app, and only allow blocks and the seaboard to connect.

anyway, credit to Roli for acting pretty quickly on the complaints.

#3

I agree that it’s nice to see the response time, but it’s a bit silly that they didn’t foresee the fallout from the bait-n-switch that was flipping NOISE into what it is now.

#4

I really don’t understand why they didn’t just make a new app for blocks from the outset.

#5

I really don’t understand why they didn’t just make a new app for blocks from the outset.

Lower conversion rate, not as much attention on it, etc. They just cannibalize the NOISE app for the publicity, makes sense from a marketing perspective.

#6

I suppose that makes sense. Feels pretty dirty though.

#7

Are you guys using it as a standalone? I’m gonna download and play around but I can’t imagine it’d be much like an actual roli

#8

I had a Seaboard before but recently sold it. I use the app with my Linnstrument.