Music creation startup ROLI today introduced the Seaboard RISE 49, the four-octave model of its Seaboard RISE controller, during Media Preview Day at the 2016 NAMM Show. Featuring a larger playing surface, the Rise 49 introduction comes about four months after the debut of the two-octave Rise 25, and expands the family of Seaboard RISE… Read More ROLI Reveals Seaboard RISE 49 , A 4-Octave MPE Controller
Reader Bruno Di Micco, keyboard player of Irish prog band The Dystopian Project, shared with us a couple of video demos that capture his early experiments with the new ROLI Rise controller.
Roli today announced the release of Noise, a free app that takes advantage of the expressive music-making potential of the iPhone. Stemming from the company’s years of research into “touch-sensitive musical interfaces,” Noise is a ‘full-bodied instrument’ that makes use of the 3D touch-sensitive capabilities of the iPhone 6s. Noise support Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (MPE), which… Read More Roli Intros Free Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression Synth, ‘Noise’, For iPhone
Advanced MIDI controller creator ROLI today announced two new products for mobile music-makers. The Equator for iPhone app ports the company’s Equator software synthesiser to the latest iPhone, using the Apple device’s 3D Touch capabilities. One of the first music apps on Apple’s App Store to take advantage of the iOS 9 interface update’s 3D… Read More Roli Debuts 3-D Touch Equator Synth for iPhone, Flip Case for RISE
ROLI, the maker of the Seaboard Grand and Rise expressive MIDI controllers, has announced the acquisition of Blend, a music collaboration platform. This announcement follows on Roli’s acquisition of JUCE, a C++ framework for cross-platform audio development. The hardware innovator is framing these acquisitions of software and social platforms as “extending its areas of expertise”… Read More ROLI Acquires Blend Social Collaboration Platform
This video, via sonicstate, captures an overview of the new ROLI Seaboard Rise MIDI controller:
Two days ago, Advanced MIDI controller creator ROLI introduced the Seaboard RISE, their most affordable expressive MIDI keyboard controller yet. Today, they released this video that features three of the new RISE controllers in action:
Advanced MIDI controller creator ROLI today announced the new Seaboard RISE, their most affordable expressive MIDI keyboard controller yet. Like the Seaboard GRAND, the Seaboard RISE reimagines the keyboard as a pressure-sensitive, continuous surface that responds to even the subtlest gestures. This lets you change the sound of each note in three dimensions, with left/right, up/down, and in/out movements of… Read More ROLI Debuts Seaboard RISE Expressive MIDI Controller
View this post on Instagram The countdown begins! www.roli.com A post shared by ROLI (@we.are.roli) on Aug 26, 2015 at 3:33pm PDT Advanced MIDI controller maker Roli is teasing something new, calling it ‘the next evolution in music creation’.
In the last few years, there has been an explosion of innovation in the area of MIDI controllers, like the Roli Seaboard Grand multi-dimensional controller, above. Today at Musikmesse 2015, Roli, the creators of the Seaboard Grand, introduced new cross-platform synth that’s specifically designed for advanced multi-dimensional controllers, Equator.
