ROLI today announced the Seaboard RISE, a universally accessible music-making device that empowers musicians to do more with a keyboard than ever before.
The Seaboard RISE is a next-generation musical instrument. Traditional keyboards are a dominant tool for music makers worldwide, but their expressive range is frustratingly limited. Playing on the Seaboard RISE’s supple, sensor-loaded, continuous surface, musicians shape notes with unprecedented expressiveness, modulating the character of sound in real time with simple movements of the finger.
The Seaboard RISE builds on the technologies of the award-winning Seaboard GRAND, which CNN called “the piano of the future” and Sound on Sound called a “bold, groundbreaking new instrument” that “has capabilities and a character that nothing else quite matches.” Since its debut, leading artists including luminaries such as Jamie xx, Jamie Cullum, and A. R. Rahman have composed, produced, and performed live with the Seaboard GRAND.
Like the Seaboard GRAND, the Seaboard RISE features patented SEA Interface technology, which remodels the keyboard as a pressure-sensitive, continuous surface that responds to even the subtlest gestures. Selling for $799 (£599) and designed to be portable, the Seaboard RISE is the first truly accessible next-generation music controller.
The Seaboard RISE is now available for pre-order and will ship and be available in store at retail outlets globally from October. To see and hear the Seaboard RISE, watch ROLI’s video at www.roli.com.
