Last year we were impressed by the Rise 25, ROLI's more affordable version of its flagship Seaboard Grand, and we again commend any company that is brave enough to attempt the reinvention of the ...

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 ...

Back in March 2013, UK-based startup Roli introduced a new kind of expressive musical instrument called the Seaboard Grand. From a distance, it had the look of a digital piano, but getting closer ...

The goal of the Roli Seaboard is no less than to inject some soul and virtuosity into digital music, by giving keyboard players the ability to bend and slide notes like guitarists and cello players, ...

Roli Seaboard Rise 2 from the side, and looking quite svelte I might add. I’d stop shy of calling it portable, but it’s certainly luggable. I’ve moved it around my home studio quite a bit and it seems ...

Music hardware startup Roli says it’s not giving up on the line of squishy Seaboard keyboards that launched its brand. Despite reports last year that the company was pivoting to focus on educational ...

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 ...

I first saw the ROLI Seaboard GRAND backstage at a show during SXSW 2013. Someone had tipped me that some startup was showing off a strange new piano that let the player bend its keys like a guitar ...

ROLI Seaboard RISE 25 review: In the world of music, ‘the next big thing’ is usually a hot new artist or band, but in this instance, it’s an instrument that’s making serious waves – the Seaboard RISE.

Roli, the makers of the Seaboard Grand audio board, have today announced the close of their second acquisition, with betaworks-backed Blend.io coming on board. The terms of the deal were not disclosed ...

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 ...

Roli Seaboard Rise 2: What is it? Finally, seven years after its launch in 2015 the long-awaited sequel to the Seaboard Rise has arrived, and it includes a few noteworthy changes that make this ...