A music creation app for everyone

Make music in minutes

NOISE is a free modular music app that lets you create music in minutes whether you’re a beginner or a pro musician. Using simple, easy-to-learn gestures, you can make beats, melodies and songs with a huge library of sounds. NOISE is an incredibly powerful handheld instrument, and that’s not all. It’s also the software engine of ROLI BLOCKS, the modular music studio.

Shape sound through touch

Your touch screen becomes a real musical instrument with NOISE, which lets you shape sounds by drumming the screen, gliding your fingers along it, pressing into it, and lifting off. You make music through intuitive gestures on a grid of colorful pads. Each pad is a particular instrument or a note in a scale.

An instrument and a studio in one

NOISE makes you both a performer and a producer. Start by choosing from over 100 custom-made sounds that range from bongo drums to string sections to zithers. Shape those sounds into beats and melodies, and record them as loops. Then mix and match those loops and build amazingly multi-layered songs.

Designed for learners

If you love listening to music but don’t think you can play an instrument, NOISE may change your mind. It’s a fun, interactive learning tool. In Learn Mode, just trace illuminated Light Trails to learn how to shape beats and melodies. Choose from one of 15 scales, and the notes of that scale light up on the grid. Turn on Hide Mode to always stay in tune — it hides notes that not in the key. Use Snap Mode to stay in time — it snaps your performance to the tempo.

Build your sound library

Build a library of sounds that goes well beyond the 100+ presets included with each Lightpad Block. ROLI sound designers and world-renowned musicians like Steve Aoki, RZA, and Grimes are crafting custom soundpacks that suit a huge array of musical genres including hip hop, dubstep, ambient, pop, and cinematic music. Each soundpack comes with up to 16 sounds and is available through in-app purchase on NOISE.

Spoonful of Grit
By RZA

Create awesome hip-hop tracks built from sounds designed by RZA, the legendary artist behind Wu-Tang Clan. Play with the gritty sounds of 80s & 90s NY. Enter the 36 Chambers and experience a classic Wu-Tang soundscape.

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Create awesome hip-hop tracks built from sounds designed by RZA, the legendary artist behind Wu-Tang Clan. Play with the gritty sounds of 80s & 90s NY. Enter the 36 Chambers and experience a classic Wu-Tang soundscape.

Available to download in the NOISE app now

Neon Future
By Steve Aoki

Steve Aoki shares the distorted gritty basses and uplifting leads that defines the sound of Neon Future, his two-part album of big-room EDM masterpieces. Includes 16 Steve Aoki-designed presets from Big Room Lead to Deep Bass.

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Steve Aoki shares the distorted gritty basses and uplifting leads that defines the sound of Neon Future, his two-part album of big-room EDM masterpieces. Includes 16 Steve Aoki-designed presets from Big Room Lead to Deep Bass.

Available to download in the NOISE app now

Distorted Bliss
By Wondagurl

Capture the gracefully gritty sound of Wondagurl straight outta Toronto with her signature collection of heavy basses, angular beats, and raw urban vibes.

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Capture the gracefully gritty sound of Wondagurl straight outta Toronto with her signature collection of heavy basses, angular beats, and raw urban vibes.

Available to download in the NOISE app now

Golden Age Hip Hop
By ROLI

The Golden Age of Hip Hop was about more than boomboxes and bling. Punchy drum kits, dope strings, and cone-shaking sub basses are some of the killer sounds that make this pack sound fresh even after the end of an era.

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The Golden Age of Hip Hop was about more than boomboxes and bling. Punchy drum kits, dope strings, and cone-shaking sub basses are some of the killer sounds that make this pack sound fresh even after the end of an era.

Available to download in the NOISE app now

Warped Electronics
By ROLI

Give your latest creation a hit of 90s IDM with a blend of dusty pads, crackly vinyl drums and tape-saturated analogue leads. This soundpack for the electronica connoisseur is sure to add an otherworldly vibe to any song.

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Give your latest creation a hit of 90s IDM with a blend of dusty pads, crackly vinyl drums and tape-saturated analogue leads. This soundpack for the electronica connoisseur is sure to add an otherworldly vibe to any song.

Available to download in the NOISE app now

Synthetic Pop Dream
By ROLI

What is pop to you? Chances are that this mixture of hybrid drum kits, pop synths, and digital basses and pop strings will make your creations pop.

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What is pop to you? Chances are that this mixture of hybrid drum kits, pop synths, and digital basses and pop strings will make your creations pop.

Available to download in the NOISE app now

Everyone Loves Vintage
By ROLI

Travel back in time to an era of big glasses, big shoulder pads, and even bigger beats with Everyone Loves Vintage. Synth Funk Bass and Vintage Octaves are some of the 12 classic drum machine and synthesizer sounds that bridge the gap between 80’s synth pop and 5D Touch to make your grooves totally vintage!

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Travel back in time to an era of big glasses, big shoulder pads, and even bigger beats with Everyone Loves Vintage. Synth Funk Bass and Vintage Octaves are some of the 12 classic drum machine and synthesizer sounds that bridge the gap between 80’s synth pop and 5D Touch to make your grooves totally vintage!

Available to download in the NOISE app now

Hybrid Acoustic
By ROLI

A collection of very playable hybrid-acoustic sounds. Expressive mallets and zithers like the Worlds Apart Pluck evoke images of distant lands. Sounds like Legato Orchestra or Steel String Guitar provide a more familiar sonic palette.

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A collection of very playable hybrid-acoustic sounds. Expressive mallets and zithers like the Worlds Apart Pluck evoke images of distant lands. Sounds like Legato Orchestra or Steel String Guitar provide a more familiar sonic palette.

Available to download in the NOISE app now

Chillwave Drifting
By ROLI

Step onto a Pacific beach at sunset with this downtempo pop collection of dusty beats, uplifting basses, and blissed-out atmospheres.

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Step onto a Pacific beach at sunset with this downtempo pop collection of dusty beats, uplifting basses, and blissed-out atmospheres.

Available to download in the NOISE app now

Structure
By ROLI

Punch up your techno productions with hard-hitting FM basses, digital pads, cutting leads, and glitched-out drum kits.

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Punch up your techno productions with hard-hitting FM basses, digital pads, cutting leads, and glitched-out drum kits.

Available to download in the NOISE app now

5D EDM
By ROLI

Create stomping dance tracks that will light up the room. Includes 2 dance drum kits and a selection of 14 synth dance-oriented presets including Big Room Attack and Killer Clown Slide.

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Create stomping dance tracks that will light up the room. Includes 2 dance drum kits and a selection of 14 synth dance-oriented presets including Big Room Attack and Killer Clown Slide.

Available for free exclusively with BLOCKS

Giant Dubstep
By ROLI

Create powerful Dubstep tracks with in-your-face drums kits and edgy motion basses and leads. Includes 2 Dubstep drum kits and 14 synth presets including Astroticks and Digital Burn Bass.

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Create powerful Dubstep tracks with in-your-face drums kits and edgy motion basses and leads. Includes 2 Dubstep drum kits and 14 synth presets including Astroticks and Digital Burn Bass.

Available for free exclusively with BLOCKS

World Colours
By ROLI

Travel through a diverse world of electronic and acoustic soundscapes with an eclectic set of world sounds. Includes 4 percussion drum and groove kits and 12 hybrid synth presets like Tuned Ethno Clave and and Kilimanjaro Mallet.

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Travel through a diverse world of electronic and acoustic soundscapes with an eclectic set of world sounds. Includes 4 percussion drum and groove kits and 12 hybrid synth presets like Tuned Ethno Clave and and Kilimanjaro Mallet.

Available for free exclusively with BLOCKS

Video Games
By ROLI

Enter a fun and buzzing world of sounds that evoke old computer games. Includes 8-bit synth sounds, special-effect percussive sounds like the Forest Awakening Drum Kit, and humorous and playable sounds like Run Mario Run.

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Enter a fun and buzzing world of sounds that evoke old computer games. Includes 8-bit synth sounds, special-effect percussive sounds like the Forest Awakening Drum Kit, and humorous and playable sounds like Run Mario Run.

Available for free exclusively with BLOCKS

Expressive Electronic
By ROLI

12 powerful and playable electronic synth sounds, that includes rhythmic sounds, leads and pads. Featuring Phaser Attack, Vintage Pad and Deeper Pad.

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12 powerful and playable electronic synth sounds, that includes rhythmic sounds, leads and pads. Featuring Phaser Attack, Vintage Pad and Deeper Pad.

Available to download in the NOISE app now

Synthetic Leads
By ROLI

12 stunning electronic leads, from warm analog to searing solos. Featuring Vintage Mono, Theremin Mini and Overdrive Solo.

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12 stunning electronic leads, from warm analog to searing solos. Featuring Vintage Mono, Theremin Mini and Overdrive Solo.

Available to download in the NOISE app now

Music’s building BLOCKS

The power of NOISE expands when it’s connected to ROLI BLOCKS, the modular music studio. Pairing wirelessly, NOISE is the software engine for BLOCKS. Get started with the Lightpad Block, the central Block in the system. On the Lightpad Block’s pressure-sensitive, illuminated surface you shape sound in all the ways you do in NOISE — on a surface that lets you be even more expressive.

Learn more about BLOCKS — powered by NOISE

Features

100+ sounds

comes with over 100 acoustic, synthetic, and percussion sounds, all custom-made by ROLI sound designers

5DTouch for shaping sound

Strike, Glide, Slide, Press, Lift

Drop beats

Tap the surface like you’re playing live drums. Go way beyond drum pads, and make beats more expressively with 5D Touch.

Make loops

Record beats and tunes, and create loops.

Make songs

Make a song by launching loops. Play one part of your song live.

Learn Mode

Light Trails guide you to play beats and melodies.

Scale Mode

Choose from 15 different scales. Hide notes that are not in tune with that scale.

Chord Mode

Trigger chords by simply pressing a note.

Arp Mode

Trigger arpeggios by simply pressing a note.

Join a musical community

Join NOISE.fm, a social community for sharing music made on NOISE

Wireless connection to ROLI BLOCKS

NOISE is both a modular music app and the sound engine for ROLI BLOCKS, the modular music studio.

Wireless connection to Seaboard RISE

NOISE also functions as the sound engine for the Seaboard RISE, ROLI’s MIDI controller.

A music creation app for everyone

Make music in minutes

Shape sound through touch

An instrument and a studio in one

Designed for learners

Build your sound library

Spoonful of Grit By RZA

Neon Future By Steve Aoki

Distorted Bliss By Wondagurl

Golden Age Hip Hop By ROLI

Warped Electronics By ROLI

Synthetic Pop Dream By ROLI

Everyone Loves Vintage By ROLI

Hybrid Acoustic By ROLI

Chillwave Drifting By ROLI

Structure By ROLI

5D EDM By ROLI

Giant Dubstep By ROLI

World Colours By ROLI

Video Games By ROLI

Expressive Electronic By ROLI

Synthetic Leads By ROLI

Music’s building BLOCKS

Features

100+ sounds

5DTouch for shaping sound

Drop beats

Make loops

Make songs

Learn Mode

Scale Mode

Chord Mode

Arp Mode

Join a musical community

Wireless connection to ROLI BLOCKS

Wireless connection to Seaboard RISE

Spoonful of Grit
By RZA

Neon Future
By Steve Aoki

Distorted Bliss
By Wondagurl

Golden Age Hip Hop
By ROLI

Warped Electronics
By ROLI

Synthetic Pop Dream
By ROLI

Everyone Loves Vintage
By ROLI

Hybrid Acoustic
By ROLI

Chillwave Drifting
By ROLI

Structure
By ROLI

5D EDM
By ROLI

Giant Dubstep
By ROLI

World Colours
By ROLI

Video Games
By ROLI

Expressive Electronic
By ROLI

Synthetic Leads
By ROLI