Jordan is the ideal instrument demonstrator in my opinion - he's got the technical facility, the musical knowledge and that deep interest and skillset with many instrument technologies, plus he loves technology and isn't wedded to traditions.
It's true, he literally invests his own money in making new ipad apps to achieve new sounds that existing instruments cant. He has the skills of a classical pianist with the creativity of someone who's always looking for what's next
Ya that thing is sexy as hell, straight up sex toy! I think Im a seaboard-sexual I just want to run my fingers all up and down its parts and ridges! I wonder if you can play it with your toungue...
It does require real finger accuracy and consistent pressure to maintain notes, so it isn’t relaxing to play. It’s very different from a traditional keyboard. If you want a traditional keyboard, this isn’t for you. If you only want to squish notes around, go for it, it does that well.
What is truly incredible about this video Is the idiosyncratic silence at a guitar center: no stairway to heaven, no banging on the drum sets, no EDM music pulsating from the pro audio section. I didn’t think it was possible.
Man, this thing lets you be SO damn expressive for a piano player! It's like you've got all the control of going between the notes like a stringed instrument player but still the benefit of an actual keyboard layout.
WOW this is one of the most impressive instrument creations I’ve ever seen. This is next level. The thought they put into this keyboard is pure genius. The sax completely did it for me.
This is the finally fully realized articulation of the Ensoniq VFX-SD, several decades later. For decades, people were saying that buyers didn’t really want poly after touch (which was never true), not to mention all the other cool articulations possible with this instrument. Brilliant job, Roli!!
I can't wait for Roli to get some decent competition with this instrument so they have to lower their prices. There is no way I can afford, for a long time, this amazing instrument.
Step 1: Buy Roli Seaboard Rise 49. Step 2: Take piano lessons because you're a drummer. Step 3: Realize you will never learn to play piano and have to stick to percussion. Step 4: Hire Jordan Rudess to Play Roli Seaboard RISE 49 for you.
You can do it in time man, but it would probably take 5 years. I bet after two years constant practice you would feel leaps & bounds from where you were. That said, I'm sort of interested in the other MPE devices because they're not anything like a piano so you don't have to learn piano in order to use the Roli. If you know the piano, the Roli will fit right in, but if you don't, it could be years before you get to the Roli because you'll be doing all your work on a piano or piano-based MIDI controller. So the Roli has an irritating barrier to entry. If I got the Linnstrument instead, I don't have to go first learn something else in order to make use of the Linnstrument...you just dig in, like eating a head of cabbage.
@Andrei James I tried that as well, but I can figure out sounds from chords and so on more easily on the guitar. The keyboard and DAW are very slow. Plus, I'm usually using the guitar for pure enjoyment when the epic bangers start showing up in the playing...which then I start to suss out the details for the DAW and other parts. The whole thing is an art form and everyone has a different approach.
One of my absolute dream instruments! Since also growing up with jazz along with Indian classical music, the amount of microtonal expressions i can get out of this, having some playing experience with piano, i can't wait for this. Right now i have some 30 key midi controller, FP-10 as my main digital piano, Arturia MicroFreak & Korg Monologue. Having something like this in my array of gears will be even better. I equally love Haken Continuum Fingerboard as well. So idk which one i'd rather end up with. Now the new Expressive E Osmose too seems to have just as much microtonal capabilities. The choices are just amazing to choose from.
A while ago, Gisele asked "How does it handle ragtime and boogie? Large block chords?" I thought I'd repeat my late reply as food for thought. I said... "It" (i.e. the actual hardware) handles it as well as any other digital keyboard in the sense that it generates MIDI data for whatever keys you press PLUS other data to describe how every INDIVIDUAL key is being modified by pitch bends, after touch, etc. Unless you're using Equator, the included Roli software, your synth software may not handle the modifier data well since the original MIDI protocol--and most if not all 3rd party software written to support it--was designed to handle modifier data as a global effect, not for individual keys. (Side note: many of the great demo's online use third party software so don't assume you'll have the same sounds with Equator!) For instance, Kontakt (pardon me if I'm not up on the most recent version) would traditionally be set up to have one instance of a software synth for a keyboard with a typical pitch bend control and the synth would apply any pitch bend data to every note pressed. That's not what most people want with a seaboard. So, with Kontakt, you have to create as many instances of the software synth as the number of keys you plan to press at a time. Once configured, the data for, say, three keys being pressed is split up and sent to the first three instances of the synth, one key per instance. So, each synth instance handles the modifier data (e.g. pitch bend) for only one key. The setup can be painful if you don't like that sort of thing; however, it does work and you can save the setups as presets. Lastly, when I first played my seaboard, I immediately realized that the beautiful surface design, which enables all the expressiveness, is a double edged sword. For instance, the centers of the keys are spaced in a standard manner but the flat tops of the keys are narrower because space is taken up by the valleys in between them. Thus, your fingers are aiming at a narrower target when you play anything that involves large jumps like a stride bass. It's very easy to land in a valley or unintentionally trigger a key modifier like pitch bend as a finger rolls off the corner of a key. Similarly, if you were really stretching you fingers to reach large block chords, you could easily unintentionally cause pitch bends or after touch effects. You can turn such effects off but then you're defeating the purpose of the seaboard and you will be left with a standard keyboard that has narrow key tops!
I love this. I'd buy one for myself but I know it would take me decades of hard work to wring beautiful sounds out of it like Jordan and I don't have decades.
Just get yourself a keyboard and start playing man, that's what I did. Honestly, if you play an instrument, you'll feel the progress on the piano really quickly and get the basics down fast.
MIDI uses less bandwidth (fewer bytes) than audio for starters, and Bluetooth "LE" is supposed to be lower latency than original Bluetooth (to get that first byte in a message delivered faster, I guess)
Just bought one for myself. I'm super excited to hook it up to Omni, Kontakt, Reaktor, Serum, Diva, and Kaivo... and to make my own multitimbral chains and layers.
Great!! Each Finger(Touch) Starts one instance of channel, and the movement sends the parameter(Wheel/Mod/Aftertouch?) value at the corresponding channel to the host.
you can also play on the phonescreen. although limited in pressure on most devices. the question is can you do that if you dont have a seaboard. so just try out on the app on your phone or tablet
Sounds amazing! I just impulse-bought one, can't wait to start playing :D Edit: I returned it. I thought it would be a lot like a traditional keyboard. But it was like playing a completely new instrument, which I don't have time/energy to learn unfortunately :/ (just a warning to any piano players considering buying it)
Have you ever tried playing a keyboard on an ipad? I hink the Seaboard keyboard is similar and goong to be tough to be able to play it. The physical keys we have been using where the keys actually go down are what works best for most of us ...
Maria Soleada this is not a keyboard. This is a seaboard. Jordan made it clear on some other video. This is an instrument with a keyboard form factor so that it will feel familiar.
I love Jordan Rudess keys play, including when he plays fast (and he almost always play fast haha)... So that's why I often slowed down the video of him playing because sometime I really love more when he plays slower LOL yeah maybe it's just me.
Curious why this isn't Jordan's go to instrument or at least some songs live. Seems a vector stick and a strip controller + traditional keyboard is more Jordan's preference for live performance?
I wonder how this behaves in a sequencer / DAW - is everything recorded as MIDI information? Multiple aftertouch seems to already destroy the MIDI spec?
