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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Roli has already curated a song library of more than a thousand hits so far, allowing users to dive into learning firm favorites or explore new directions. There are interactive games to teach notes, ...
NAMM 2025: Hear the word ‘piano’ and the chances are that you’ll visualise an acoustic or digital instrument with 88 keys that can be played without the need to connect it to anything else. ROLI, ...
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 ...
Learning an instrument is difficult for most people. That’s doubly the case when attempting to learn on your own. It’s the reason so many of us have dusty guitars and keyboards jammed up in our attic ...
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 ...
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 ...
The light-up keys are preeeeetttttty. Compact, solid build. Music lessons are easy to follow. Works as a regular midi controller. Enter Lumi Keys. Lumi Keys from Roli is a keyboard contained in a foot ...
is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Piano lessons for me as a child meant sitting down every Tuesday at a shiny black Yamaha upright, looking up ...