ROLI Seaboard Block
Contact ROLI www.roli.com | Sound Technology www.soundtech.co.uk 01462 480 000
£279
CHOICE AWARD 9/10
VALUE AWARD £€$
Key features
• 2-octave, 5D mini controller
• Connectivity: USB-C port (MIDI out and power). Full MIDI over USB and Bluetooth, 4 DNA connectors
• Bluetooth range: 15m
• Battery life: 10 hours (4-hour charge)
• Dimensions (mm): 282x25x141
• Weight (g): 650
A few months back, I looked at ROLI’s Blocks, a set of musical devices that act as modular music makers and are designed to open up the world of music making to the masses in a well designed and ingenious way. I’ll talk more of those shortly, as Seaboard Block is designed to integrate with that system, but it also derives from the other ROLI hardware strand, the Seaboard RISE.
RISE, for the uninitiated, is a keyboard like no other. It features Keywaves, which replace standard keyboard keys. You get 12 per octave you play it. With ‘Five Dimensions Of Touch’ you can Strike, Glide, Slide, Press and Lift keys, adding several new layers to your playing and performing.
