Wish: ROLI BLOCK support

roli.com/products/blocks

I have a couple of these things (specifically the LED pads) and it would be super cool to have the ability to interface with these kinda like how MaxMSP does. You can receive XY touch position and pressure from them and send back a full 15x15 RGB moving image to them so they act like a little low res video screen. I can think of many situations where these would be handy in installs (works over USB-C) or performance systems (can work over bluetooth). I would love to be able to display previews of my pixel maps on a couple of them alongside my regular midi controller.

I talked with ROLI about this at CES last year and tried to get them to send a few samples to Derivative. No dice. Stingy with the blocks.

I will gladly donate my ROLI blocks to Derivative for them to disassemble / hack / stomp on if it means they get supported. This is (irrationally) one of the big things that has me eyeing a MaxMSP licenseā€¦ The LED feedback was SO easy to use in MAX.