Introducing the Seaboard from ROLI on Vimeo.
"The piano keyboard meets the future in a revolutionary new approach to music
The Seaboard is a radically new musical instrument based on the design of a piano keyboard. Its patent-pending approach brings together a traditional approach to making music with cutting edge digital technology in a way that is so intuitively tactile that you can play it with your eyes closed.
This approach enables performers, composers and producers to exert unprecedented real-time control of all the major characteristics of sound: volume, pitch and timbre. If you can play the piano you already know how to play the Seaboard, and it literally puts a new world of expressive possibilities right at your fingertips.
The core team brings together a wide range of skills - product, industrial and interaction design, software engineering, business management, and of course music production, administration, management, teaching, networking and strategy and a passion for creating more intuitive ways of making music.
In early 2011, Seaboard successfully entered the Incubator.
More information on the Seeboard website"
"Evolved from the piano keyboard, the Seaboard is a new musical instrument which bridges the gap between acoustic and digital music by putting the control of pitch, volume and timbre right at your fingertips.
A limited edition of 88 GRANDs will be available for pre-order worldwide starting in April 2013. In recognition of its provenance, each will be named after a particular note on the piano keyboard, from A0 to C8.
Our cutting-edge SoundDial software gives you complete control of the Seaboard’s sound and unprecedented integration between software and hardware."
Two press releases follow beneath the pics (no mention of MIDI):
ROLI Seaboard GRAND Press Release:
"ROLI Introduces the Seaboard GRAND, a Groundbreaking New Musical Instrument
London, England – Designled technology startup ROLI introduces the Seaboard GRAND, a radically new kind of musical instrument and digital controller that reimagines the most iconic of musical instruments – the piano.
An evolution of the piano keyboard, the Seaboard has a soft threedimensional surface that enables unprecedented realtime, intuitive control of the fundamental characteristics of sound: pitch, volume, and timbre. Piano and keyboard players can instantly transfer their skills to the Seaboard and begin exploring its new capacities.
The Seaboard is the first electronic instrument to enable control of a wide variety of parameters through traditional techniques for expressiveness and virtuosity. As a controller, the Seaboard allows players to manipulate sound like never before. It authentically simulates a plethora of other instruments – guitar note bends, subtle string and horn swells, and much more are expressively created in seconds instead of hours. Both as an instrument and as a controller the Seaboard creates a world of entirely new sonic possibilities, and provides a new bridge between acoustic and electronic approaches to music.
The Seaboard was invented by RCA Design Products graduate Roland Lamb. In 2011, ROLI – the company he founded – won a place in the Design London incubator, and secured grant funding from the Technology Strategy Board, the UK’s innovation agency. ROLI now employs 16 engineers, designers, and musicians in its warehouse studio/workshop in Dalston. Advisory Board members include the designer and architect Ron Arad.
The Seaboard is powered by the patentpending SEA Interface, ROLI’s disruptive platform sensor technology. SEA Interfaces are highly precise, informationrich, and pressuresensitive, and can be built in any form factor. They enable seamless transitions between discrete and continuous input, and capture threedimensional gestures while simultaneously providing the user with tactile feedback. ROLI is currently developing further applications in music, personal computing, robotics, medical devices, gaming, and vehicular and machine control.
News Release
The Seaboard GRAND will be featured in 2013’s South by Southwest music conference, where it has been selected to participate in the Music Accelerator, a showcase of the best new startup companies. Celebrated keyboard player Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater will be premiering the Seaboard with an exclusive performance to demonstrate its versatility and musicality.
A limited edition of 88 Seaboard GRANDs will be available for preorder worldwide starting in April 2013. Each Seaboard GRAND will be handassembled to order in the ROLI studio in the heart of Dalston, East London, and, in recognition of its provenance, each will be named after a particular note on the piano keyboard, from A0 to C8.
For more information on the Seaboard and downloads go to www.weareroli.com/press"
ROLI Introduce Revolutionary SEA Interface Press Release:
"Technology Innovators ROLI Introduce Revolutionary SEA Interface
ROLI’s threedimensional pressuresensing interfaces enable fullspectrum sensory interaction. The SEA Interface makes possible new applications in music, personal computing, robotics, medical devices, gaming, and vehicular and machine control.
London, England – Designled technology startup ROLI introduces its new pressuresensitive touch sensors with its first product offering, the Seaboard GRAND.
The SEA Interface is a highresolution haptic pressure sensor that captures threedimensional gesture inputs, while simultaneously providing the user with tactile feedback. SEA Interfaces can be adapted to any form factor, and will enable a host of new innovations in music, personal computing, robotics, medical devices, gaming, and vehicular and machine control.
While initial applications of the SEA Interface, particularly in music, are being developed inhouse, ROLI will also make the technology available to the Maker community, allowing them to explore the full range of innovations that this new approach to interaction makes possible.
ROLI was founded by RCA Design Products graduate Roland Lamb. In 2011, the company won a place in the Design London incubator, and secured grant funding from the Technology Strategy Board, the UK’s innovation agency. ROLI now employs 16 engineers, designers, and musicians in its warehouse studio/workshop in Dalston. Advisory Board members include the designer and architect Ron Arad.
The ROLI design approach combines simplicity, elegance, and sensuality to create products that enable unique user experiences. Combining this with secondtonone service and attention to customers’ needs, ROLI connects people to technology, and each other, in meaningful new ways.
The Seaboard GRAND
News Release
With a limited edition of 88 units available to preorder in April 2013, the Seaboard GRAND is the first product to utilise the SEA Interface.
The Seaboard GRAND is a radically new kind of musical instrument and digital controller. Based on the piano keyboard, it has a highly intuitive, soft threedimensional surface that enables unprecedented realtime control of the fundamental characteristics of sound: pitch, volume and timbre. This not only unleashes the capacity for authentic simulation of all other instruments, but also creates a world of entirely new sound possibilities.
For more information visit www.weareroli.com/press."
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