There has been a longstanding gulf between the consumption of music and the creation of it: not everyone has the time or money to spend on lessons and instruments, and for those in school, many music ...

ROLI, which makes the Seaboard (new type of keyboard musical instrument), has acquired FXpansion, a maker of software instruments, for an undisclosed sum. London-based FXpansion already makes sounds ...

Pharrell Williams is making one tech company very happy right now. The Grammy-winning producer has been named Chief Creative Officer of ROLI, a U.K. music technology startup founded by Roland Lamb.

Roli is in the business of making weird, creatively-designed and hyper-expressive MIDI instrument controllers. Its Beatmaker Kit features the Lightblock, a beautiful, portable, wireless digital ...

Last year, expressive digital instrument pioneers Roli released the Seaboard Rise, a portable version of its continuous touch surface Seaboard Grand keyboard. Now the company has taken the ...

The finalists for Georgia Tech’s annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition just dropped.

It takes just a few seconds for a Roli Block to transform from a monolithic black slab into a harmonious array of colourful lights that pulse and swirl just below the surface. Gently prod it, and the ...

Synths are nothing new, of course -- so what makes Roli's digital piano so novel? The instrument has a patent-pending rubberized surface that lets you bend and twist the keys as you play, freeing you ...

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ROLI CEO Roland Lamb was walking home from his office in East London three years ago when his phone rang. "Hans Zimmer just called the office line and he was asking for you," said one of his employees ...

London-based tech start-up ROLI has introduced a new musical instrument line that should get musicians and audiophiles salivating. The "Seaboard" is a continuous-touch keyboard with curved "keywaves" ...

Roli, the London firm best known for its iOS apps and portable MIDI controllers, went all-in with its Seaboard series three years ago. The soft-touch music keyboards, which swap out tactile piano keys ...