ROLI Seaboard Block Controller
Create astonishingly expressive music on a portable, super-powered keyboard. Touch and shape your sound on Seaboard Block’s soft, pressure-responsive musical surface. Play a powerful standalone instrument – and extend its power by connecting to other Blocks.
Product Features
- 5D Touch technology
- 24 keywave, two octave playing surface
- 100+ free sounds
- Software bundle: NOISE, Equator Player, BLOCKS Dashboard, MaxMSP
- Wireless and portable
Unparalleled expression, in a very portable form. When it comes to expression, nothing I’ve tried beats the Seaboard. If you haven’t experienced a Seaboard before, it can be a little weird and awkward at first, but once you realize the potential this things has, you can’t wait to explore all the possibilities. Rather than keys, it has a soft silicone membrane shaped like keys, and unlike other experimental expressive keyboards I own this one is highly accurate in all dimensions. It is in fact more accurate to strike velocity and after touch…
Feels amazing, lacks direction? The keybed feels amazing, squishy and soft. But it gets dirty very fast from dust and skin cells. The unit itself is nicely weighted, but tends to slide around a bit even with its rubberized bottom. The Equator app that it comes standard with leaves a lot to be desired. The soft-synth patches are just not that interesting save for s few. You barely get any free String patches as well. As for hardware devices like Analog synths, they have tutorials on…