Furthering their innovative – and education-leaning – remit, ROLI have today announced Airwave, which it describes as a ‘breakthrough in musical interaction for both music learners and creators.’ This ...

I am, primarily, a guitarist. Dabbling in keys and synths has always felt a bit unnatural from a physical standpoint. A keyboard doesn’t respond the way a fretted instrument does. This isn’t ...

The Airwave is basically a tall stand with a camera on top. This camera points downward to track the player’s finger movements on a connected MIDI keyboard. Movements are tracked in real time and ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. The free app comes with 25 preset instruments, from “Dirt Organ” to “Smoky Rhode,” and allows ...

Roli, the maker of quirky, portable, and expressive digital pianos and keyboard instruments, has a new device that can both teach budding pianists how to play music and provide seasoned musicians with ...

ROLI's Seaboard RISE looks like something you'd find Darth Vader playing in his downtime on the Death Star, but it uses the force in far more interesting ways. The company's first product was the much ...

Last year, expressive digital instrument pioneers Roli released the Seaboard Rise, a portable version of its continuous touch surface Seaboard Grand keyboard. Now the company has taken the ...

The Seaboard GRAND, is a completely new type of keyboard musical instrument. It has soft rubber keys which can bend and shape a tune, the way you can bend the strings on a guitar. It’s a genuinely ...

Roli says that this gives players four dimensions of control. The hardware ships with Roli Studio software package, which includes some sounds from the Equator2, Cypher2 and Strobe2 synths, and ...

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