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2016-04-06 06:28 AM

All You Need To

Know About NOISE
Seaboard GRAND

What is NOISE?
NOISE 5D is a performance oriented Player app for the
Equator desktop synth. You can use it on its own,
playing on the touch screen, or with a RISE controller
connected over Bluetooth.

Getting Started
Setting up with other
software
Playing the Seaboard
Creating Sounds
Understanding the
Seaboard
Troubleshooting

This is the apps default start-up screen:

Setting up with other

hardware
Care and Support

Seaboard RISE
Getting Started
Playing the Seaboard
Setting up with other
software
Creating Sounds
Understanding the
Seaboard

You can play notes by pressing on the keys as you

would do on a normal keyboard.
But once youve struck a key, you can also move left &
right to change the pitch, or up & down to change the
tone. These are some of the unique features the RISE
controller offers, allowing you to play more expressively
than on a normal piano keyboard.

Troubleshooting
Setting up with other
hardware
Care and Support

Equator
Getting Started
Creating Sounds
Troubeshooting

And if you have an iPhone 6S or 6S+, the app will use

PolyThru

the new 3D Force technology to detect how hard

you are pressing, to make sounds louder or softer, or

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change the timbre in other ways.

Getting Started
Other Features

Changing Sound

Troubleshooting

The name of the current preset appears on the top bar:

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Press the left arrow to play the previous sound in the

Seaboard GRAND

library, or the right arrow to play the next sound.

Seaboard RISE
Equator

Press the preset name itself to bring up the browser:

this allows you to see all your presets in one place and
move through them quickly.
Press on the preset name at the top, or double-tap a
given preset, to return to the main player view.

Additional presets can be purchased through the Apple

iTunes store by pressing the shopping basket button on
the top right corner:

Use the Restore Purchases button if you are installing

the app on a new phone and you had previously
purchased sound packs. Alternatively simply Buy a
sound pack again if you had already purchased it, the
Apple store will allow you to download the sound pack
again without charging you twice.

Performance Controls
When playing on-screen, NOISE 5D aims to provide the
same controls as can be found on the Seaboard RISE
hardware controller. These include options to switch
octave, a sustain pedal, an XY-Pad to modify sounds,
and three faders assigned to macros that modify the
sound. These controls can be accessed by pressing the
circular icon for the settings menu.

Press Control 1 or Control 2 for different layouts.

Choose the number of keys displayed by the on-screen
keyboard from 13 = 1 octave, to 25 = 2 octaves.
These options allow you best tailor the on-screen
playing experience to your needs.

Five dimensions of expressivity

As weve already mentioned above, ROLIs Seaboard

technology allows you to play more expressively than
using a standard piano or synth keyboard. Not only can
you strike & release keys, but you can also control
sustained notes by changing the pressure, or sliding
your fingers up or down, or gliding left and right to
change the pitch.

All your touches are visualised on the screen using the

same colours as the knobs above:
Strike: The velocity and force with which a finger
makes contact with a keywave.
Press: The pressure and continuous touch applied
to the keywave after the initial Strike
Glide: Horizontal movements from side to side on

a keywave or along the ribbons.

Slide: Vertical movements up and down a
keywave.
Lift: The release velocity or speed of liftoff from a
keywave.

These 5 knobs above allow you to change the sensitivity

of the RISE controller or touch screen.
Strike: changes how hard you have to strike the
note to reach all the way from soft to loud. If you
set this all the way to 0 then there is no strike
sensitivity, similar to an organ or maybe a
harpsichord keyboard.
Press: allows you to adjust how hard you need to
press the keyboard or screen. If you turn this down
to 0 there is no pressure sensitivity.
Glide: this is a very important control and
determines how much the keyboard will help you
play in tune. If you turn it all the way to 0, the
keyboard becomes like a piano, it always plays in
tune, you have no vibrato, and sliding your finger
from left to right will trigger new notes at the
correct pitch give it a try! If you turn it further up,
you change how quickly the synthesiser will glide
from note to note, allowing you to play vibratos and
glides, whilst eventually always ending perfectly
tuned to the exact note. If you you turn it all the
way up, there is no pitch correct, and the keyboard
acts like a theremin, allowing you play notes at any
frequency you may find this very difficult to play
accurately!
Slide: this knob determines how far you need to

slide your finger up & down to change the sound.

At its minimum value of 0, there is no slide. At low
values it is extremely sensitive, whilst at high values
you need to slide the entire length of a key.
Lift: here you can adjust how sensitive the
keyboard is to how quickly you release a key. This
may subtly affect how certain presets change when
you remove your finger from the keyboard, such as
on a harpsichord or guitar for example.

If you have connected your RISE via Bluetooth to the

app, these controls will mirror exactly the Pressure,
Glide & Slide faders on the RISE itself.

Connecting to the Seaboard RISE

or an external controller
There are two ways of connecting an external controller
to the app: Bluetooth or USB. The app has been
optimised to work with a large selection of possible
controllers, including ROLIs Seaboard RISE which can
access all the features.

Connecting via Bluetooth

This is the preferred method of connection
connection,
allowing you to play the app with your RISE without any
tangle of cables.

Press the circular settings button on the top right

of the screen, then press Connect to scan the list
of available Bluetooth devices.

Unplug the USB cable from the RISE itself. The

power button will flash blue each second to
indicate that the controller is now discoverable over
Bluetooth.

Pick the device you want to connect to from the

apps Bluetooth selector

The Bluetooth button will turn blue when the

connection is successful:

Connecting via USB

You will most likely need a USB to Lightning converter,
this is sold by Apple under the name Camera
Connection Kit. For some devices (such as the
Seaboard) an additional powered USB hub may be
required.

MIDI Set-up
MIDI is the industry standard protocol for connecting
controllers to synthesisers. More sophisticated
instruments such as the Seaboard RISE use an
extension to MIDI called MPE (Multidimensional

Polyphonic Expression) to provide additional gestures

such as polyphonic glide, pressure and slide. MPE uses
standard MIDI messages over multiple MIDI channels in
order to provide completely independent polyphonic
control.

Once your controller is connected, press MIDI Set-up

from the settings menu to access the detailed
configuration menu, there are three possible modes of
operation:

Multi-Channel & MPE On

This is the recommended mode for the RISE or other

MPE-enabled controllers. You can set the number of
channels available to MPE from 2 to 16, and MPE will

reserve one channel for global messages (pitch-bend

for example) that affect all notes played.

Multi-Channel & MPE Off

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This mode is provided for compatibility with older

devices, the main difference is that there is no MPE
Global channel, so you can use the full range of
channels 1 through 16.

Single Channel

This mode is provided for standard non-MPE controllers,

or other monophonic expressive controllers, such as
wind instruments. In this mode you simply pick the one
MIDI channel the instrument will be using.

Pitch Bend Range

In all modes you can configure the pitch bend range in

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octaves. This not only determines how far you can glide
on the keyboard, but also how the pitch-bend
messages received from the controller are scaled.

Program Change Messages

Pressing the previous & next preset buttons on the RISE
control panel will change the preset in the app. But
NOISE 5D will also accepts program change messages
from other controllers. If there is no program with the
number requested, an error will be briefly displayed
and the current preset will not be changed.

MIDI Reset

This button will stop the synth from producing any

sound. This may be helpful if there is radio interference
with MIDI messages.

Enjoy!
We hope you enjoy playing NOISE 5D, whether onscreen, or as a sound generator for your MPEcompatible controller or Seaboard RISE. Each of the
build-in and expansion presets has been carefully
crafted to make the most of the expressive possibilities
of ROLIs Seaboard RISE technology, and can be further
modified by the built-in macros & XY Pad. We wish you
much enjoyment with our products.
Do let us know if you have any feedback on this manual
or functionality. Our support team is available online and

can be contacted here: https://www.roli.com/support

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