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Block Dashboard For IOS!

I use iOS apps almost exclusively at this point with my Seaboard Blocks and Lightpad Blocks.  A Dashboard for iOS would really help.

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Seaboard 61?
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HI does it work with seaboard 61 ?
I came across your iOS app and I thought it was a scam haha. Sorry. Visuals were very simple but it worked for me (iPad Pro 10.5 and Roli Lightning Block). Now I can play Roli using Garageband. Thank you so much! May I know how to map the keys manually if that is possible? TIA. God bless
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Huge props to Christophe Tornieri for his iOS dashboard app. Works exactly as I hoped! Having to chose between running the seaboard in mpe or non mpe mode prior to using it with iOS had been a massive party stopper for me: the majority of the iOS synths I love don’t play nice with mpe (and few of them support the seaboard’s normal pitch bend range). So using it with iOS had always meant giving up on mpe, or giving up on the majority of my iOS synths. iOS dashboard is the perfect cure!
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Thanks to this forum I got the message about Tornieri´s 3rd Party-Dashboard.

First look at it yesterday: It seems to work (at last with my Blocks WLIN (M)). When I find the time I might write another commentary.

For the Pad Block to be able to switch thru different Block Modes (they go from 1 to 5 blocks grid) you first have to click on "Load Default Program". (Otherwise its in the mode you uploaded from PC/Mac and it wont switch Blocks via Tornieri´s App).

Of course you can not upload the Roli-Programs to the Blocks Pad as you can from PC-Dashboard, but there´s no need for them on IOS!

From first look:

Everything one needs! Midi Config, MPE/Multi/Single Channel switching, 5D Parameter Control, Performance-Control (Chords, Scale, Blocks, Glide) and more.

So: First look: Thanks a lot, it looks great!!

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I found this dashboard app by accident last night and have been trying it out. By god, it works! There is a good deal that you can do in the app. It’s not as feature rich as full dashboard on Mac, but the basics are covered and work well. Cheers!

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Hi, I have developed and release an iOS version of the block dashboard. It is available on the AppStore. Block Dashboard by Christophe Tornieri
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Looks like a third party has taken a crack at this: Block Dashboard by Christophe Tornieri https://apps.apple.com/us/app/block-dashboard/id1469611330 I haven't tried it yet.
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I agree completely with the above.  I use midi filtering on my iCM4+ interface to filter out the CC74 message and am a bit dissappointed it's such a hassle to switch from MPE to regular midi. I really like my Seaboard Block keyboard and would happily invest in a MkII if it had these features added.

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Yep, it could start out really small, by just allowing to switch Seaboards and Lightpads between full MPE and Single Channel mode plus buttons to switch off Glide (so we can use an alternative to send pitch bend, without having interfering messages from the Block) and slide (to avoid that synths which understand CC74 as filter cutoff frequency by default get constant conflicting messages). That would already go a very long way. Single channel mode is sprinkled with issues, btw. On PC I use a Lightpad app which fakes a pitch wheel and it’s very cool for non-MPE instruments, but even with glide tracking entirely switched off I still need to filter out pitch bend reset messages from the Seaboard Blocks which are being sent with every note-on. Same applies to slide. I have support tickets where they confirm these and other single-channel issues, dating back to February 2018:( As said, I can work around the issues on PC, but I can’t use that cool non-MPE setup at all on IOS, which is very sad, because I’d have the perfect travelling setup right there, if it only worked.
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As much as I'd like a full ROLI Dashboard for iOS, the BIG thing I need to be able to do on mobile is switch between MPE and single channel MIDI. 


Sometimes I want to use Noise with full 5D touch, but other sampling engines need the single channel MIDI (unless I can figure out a workaround).

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Thanks for the advices

Yes! That is a must have! (Alternative: Proper Auv Support for Noise: Devices work inside as in Noise App

Do you have an API for doing this? If so, we could write our own :)

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