Seaboard RISE, a new low-cost music-making device, has launched. According to its creators the technology could help musicians and amateurs-alike create soaring melodies, shredding synths and ...

First establishing itself to musicians and music producers in 2015 as the first "truly expressive" digital keyboard, ROLI RISE returns in 2022 with its fourth keyboard model, which improves on its ...

Roli has been building unconventional musical instruments for nearly a decade now — the company's first product, the rubber-keyed Seaboard piano was first revealed back in 2013. It was originally ...

The idea of a musical keyboard dates back to antiquity, before being finessed throughout the Middle Ages through the invention and development of the organ. The percussive pianoforte, invented by ...

Aside from going digital in the late ‘70s and then the rise of cheap electronic Casio keyboards in the ‘80s (blasting Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up in demo mode) the piano went mostly ...

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In La La Land, too-cool-for-cover-bands and struggling jazz pianist Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) plays on the Roli Seaboard Grand, a $3,000 futuristic keyboard that warps sound based on presses, bends and ...

Last year, Roli launched an affordable, modular music creation system called Blocks. At launch, the company sold a square Lightpad block (intended for tapping out melodies and drum beats) and two ...

If you haven’t used a Seaboard before, it’s hard to get all the adjectives straight. It’s a keyboard, but instead of being comprised of separate keys, it’s all one continuous, multitouch, ...

Hans Zimmer, the creative force behind some of Hollywood’s best loved film music, including the Oscar-winning Lion King score, adjusts his chair in front of a sleek black instrument that looks ...