Roli Seaboard RISE 49 Demo with Jordan Rudess

[@DanielVerberne]

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.

[@nudeood]

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

[@alrick3000]

I'm not a fan of his style but I completely agree with everything you've said.

[@رايقللأخر-ذ2خ]

حي الله أهل الأردن كم سعر الجهاز لو تكرمت إذا توصلت له

[@josephescario256]

I couldn't agree more with you. The way he play the keys, its amazinnng

[@steviered100]

And in the background he is developing a IOS App that does more than this and you don,t need a Roli. Just a phone or an Ipad. Its called GEO Shred

[@StefanoMei]

What a time to be alive!

[@nobodyhome3753]

That's what they said when 8 track tapes came out.

[@bobbyberetta4206]

Robert La Macchia Elon Musk is a Rock Star!

[@KKSmith]

Because you have music playing in your head that you just can't make with the technology we have now? :-)

[@arando4359]

Robert La Macchia yeah, imagine multi-billion dollar companies being able to read your mind lol

[@JohnnValentine]

word

[@billybobson123]

I've never been so attracted to an instrument.

[@jaysmithminaj]

anthony roche get it

[@aadityakiran_s]

anthony roche I'm attracted to that guy and I'm into girls...

[@Q5000]

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...

[@exaist]

Notice how unrelaxed his hands go with this keyboard . dont buy.

[@pawnjp7946]

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.

[@BOSSSHAWN]

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.

[@DeathBringer769]

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.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

the ability to add vibrato and bends at different amounts and speed to ten notes at once...

[@baye3513]

this sax sound just is mindblowing!

[@pepinillosazucarados6743]

this keyboard is ideal for mr sax t

[@absinha6209]

This presentation is just bananas! Blown away! That saxophone sound is out of control

[@tedjs235]

The music in the first part kept me thinking about Spongebob.

[@jtsax95]

James Shan absolutely! Right after 0:41 I wanted the bubble sound affect, the French narrator, and then a scene starting with SpongeBob snoring.

[@babykeke6868]

SAMEEEE

[@kimsushiii]

IM DYING

[@nostalgia_junkie]

rip hillenburg

[@exaist]

Notice how unrelaxed his hands go with this keyboard . dont buy

[@maurov2104]

The future of music is here. Imagine all the possibilities!!

[@Firstinversion899]

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!!

[@Alex-wl6oc]

Love this dude and the way he slides the notes

[@warlax5658]

It’s cool that they programmed in the “fingers sliding along the fret” sound when you change chords

[@SmeagolTheBeagle]

What an outrageously gorgeous introduction demonstration

[@shellamarelle]

I can't be the only one replaying the video from 0:00 - 0:41 :D Such a beautiful sound and wonderful playing!

[@xusya9141]

ykunce volta spongebob square pants, usually when he sleeps

[@leosaldana9662]

Me too

[@prajwalchougule]

chelbelle true that

[@micha4431]

First time in history, when sax on keys sounds actually really accurate and conviceable! :O Totally good stuff with wide expression possibilities!

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The tech to add those details that string and brass can do and piano traditionally lacks.

[@JayTheLane]

This video shows how incredibly talented Jordan really is.

[@v1nigra3]

What a heavenly instrument..incomparable to anything else

[@Ewumm]

I love how the guitar sounds. It sounds like a real clean guitar!

[@abnerwish7511]

I don't know a technical thing at all that this man is talking about. That will not stop me from watching the whole thing and loving it. 😆

[@ProGamer48508]

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.

[@JohnnValentine]

pretty sure patent laws will block competition

[@ProGamer48508]

For a time, yes, but not indefinitely.

[@Sifthead09]

Gideon White The Roli block is more affordable and can link with other blocks.

[@ProGamer48508]

I actually saw them a while ago and plan to get some after I buy a double bass.

[@Dethmeister]

It's not as expensive as I thought it was going to be. It's around a thousand bucks.. or am I wrong? I mean I can't afford it but still.

[@R1kzy]

All video, I was trying to imagine him without his beard

[@Rubmaster]

Dear Santa, please let me win the lottery.

[@lvcifxrxzst]

Lol

[@jaysmithminaj]

Rubmaster me

[@Rubmaster]

He could be Russian for all I care ^,^

[@aadityakiran_s]

Rubmaster Dear Santa, let me have the talent of that guy.

[@wsitumn]

Send me one too if you win. I want the 49 btw.

[@EdmundRogersPhotography]

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.

[@joshgiesbrecht]

I'm a piano player who bought drums I'll never learn to play, trade? Lol

[@shitmandood]

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.

[@StophD]

You say that, but my old drummer got amazing at keyboard after a year or two

[@shitmandood]

@Andrei James Weird. I can play guitar and I usually start with it for composition and then work on penciling it into a DAW.

[@shitmandood]

@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.

[@albhem_eh]

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.

[@bopbopperono58]

That guitar synth is incredible.

[@Ludnorc]

Thank you for this demonstration, Master Xehanort.

[@nostalgia_junkie]

headcanon: nort has been classically trained and plays baroque music in his free time

[@GroniumArgor]

LLLLMMMAAAAOOOOOO

[@Cylance-ji9tn]

Darth Nort

[@nateth3great860]

So freaking awesome. Saving up for one forsure. It’s cool because you can really feel what your playing

[@waymanharris1284]

The value of his talent is so much greater than that of his instrument. #Salute

[@ZachPowers]

I’m sure that this will be popping up in dream theater music soon! (Or if it doesn’t I’m glad Jordan can absolutely rock it!)

[@Ferocious_Imbecile]

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.

[@theinfinate]

Jordan is the perfect man to showcase this awesome baby

[@yaoguangtang1759]

The tones slide in different ways, so cool!

[@RISCGames]

I feel like you could play the shit out of some Blade Runner-styled music with this thing!

[@pawnjp7946]

Clint Thompson You’re so right man. Deeper pad preset on the Noise app.

[@damionchrist]

Fuck yeah‼️🤘🏽

[@chriskaprys]

@@pawnjp7946 I don't see that on my app, but Autumn Valley Pad brings up a sweet BR vibe.

[@ruste9223]

I see you're a man of culture. Vangelis is king

[@aarhuszeo]

What I'm seeing now is the evolution of music itself. I can only imagine what music in the future would be like.

[@DerHerrMitR]

The keys player of the band I'm in bought a Seaboard Block. He fell in love with it after five minutes.

[@infamoushacker4chan883]

Wonderfully tropical intro.

[@MattAlexan]

WoW! - I was a guitar player with interest in Synths- and thought to listen to this for a minute or two...I played it TWICE!

[@appostudioproductions9147]

Truly beautiful. Worth every penny

[@marcosadelino6990]

We'd love to hear some famous rock guitar solos from that wonder ;)

[@Roboprogs]

You know there are some on youtube already, right? E.g. - Hendrix stuff redone on a seaboard.

[@sarabethmattis6099]

Just saw the ad for this thing. I need to see more people rocking this instrument.

[@edwardhanson318]

Ever since I got my ROLI Seaboard Rise 49, gave me the opportunity to expand my creativity with my music. 🎶

[@tr606]

Lovely version of 'This Loneliness' to start off with. It sounds beautiful

[@ianstirton3587]

What on god's earth was that beautiful song at the beginning?

[@rbrown2925]

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!

[@totophi]

R Brown : I would have responded to Gisele that maybe she doesn’t want to use a spatula to handle soup, or use a car to swat a fly.

[@CoreyLaGray]

This really makes me wish I knew how to play the piano. So rad.

[@User-lu3gv]

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.

[@kade1348]

never too late to start! if you’d had started when u left this comment you’d be on ur well way to mastery!!

[@Joeknowsit-ALL]

I'm preparing my left kidney !

[@drshyampanigrahi]

😋

[@TheDockeys]

🤣

[@DJSidhu24]

😂🤣👌

[@Strap1205]

This guy is just the god of keyboards. Not more - not less! Awesome! And ROLI seems to be made for this god! ^^

[@danielwarnermusic5123]

Thanks a lot for that concise demonstration of the Roli Seaboard.

[@chriskaprys]

Holy heck, that sax sounded .. astonishing.

[@reyp.4375]

3 years later and I'm still replaying 0:00 - 0:42

[@rafaelandres5280]

2020 set

[@spiritzweispirit1st638]

Amazing Keyboard, Teacher and Person! Thank You So Much!🎼🎹

[@adampierce9403]

I wanna know how the hell they made it use Bluetooth with no discernible latency! Amazing

[@RexakonGaming]

im sure there is a bit of latency but not to the point of notice.

[@coole8]

Discernable means what you said btw, sorry i sounded rude, just wanted to make it clear what he said

[@Roboprogs]

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)

[@boogie56ace]

Magic

[@ckannan90]

I’m guessing because it’s transmitting midi over Bluetooth, not audio. A lot less data.

[@alexanderfrommichen586]

5:30 "I can do it while I'm looking at you." -- Completely sums up his skills.

[@TylerInTraining]

The man could sight-read "UN Owen Was Her" while ordering a pizza on his phone.

[@bog6106]

I am at a loss for words, Thank you!

[@howser1961]

Got my Seaboard today - have to watch your video .. again .. and again .. a few times - Thank you :-)

[@emilchristianstillhoffjens5299]

Now that’s a freakin COOL instrument!

[@nbgaf1040]

I predict a bunch of really chillax music coming out Oh I can't imagine the edm

[@steviered100]

This guy makes the hardest of things look so easy

[@withoutyourspacehelmet1124]

Very impressive

[@MannyVel]

I’m just a guitar player and keyboard dabbler...but.... wow ! This is nice ! 😀

[@kobyisraelite]

The seaboard changed my life.

[@SweRaider1993]

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)

[@benjiusofficial]

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.

[@why7893]

How is it? Worth it?

[@amari6229]

was it worth it!!!??

[@amari6229]

please update haha

[@NativeEarthlingAI]

Roli is just killing it

[@parzingtheasian]

his beard looks like it's glued on

[@rael6168]

It is, indeed.

[@vaishnav_mallya]

Lol

[@steveessex4720]

It is a killer keyboard , Miss Neon Vines Does an amazing job with it

[@DaMaster1983]

i always wanted to make such a tool. im glad someone did

[@somamakesyouhappy703]

9:14 is when every electronic music producer did a little poop of excitement

[@LSZ1318]

3:29...."There's all this extra To-ooonee that happens.". Love how Jordan is in a small moment of ecstasy on the word 'tone'. LOL

[@smachamo5150]

So now I have no idea what keyboard I want, I was going to go for the king cord, but now this instrument just seems something I have to totally relearn

[@ardiantowibowo269]

woooww.. i think this keyboard is one of of the best invention in this century.

[@nobodyhome3753]

Jordan is some kind of magic person.

[@mojito6629]

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.

[@horaciomont3158]

It will be nice to listen the "Blue Bayou" by Linda Rondstadt pedal steel guitar solo, played on this seaboard. It sounds very well.

[@davejones4740]

What a great creation...Dynamics

[@kriscody3577]

It's what's been missing. I love this concept!!!!

[@ademustafa2743]

Such a great player ...

[@timothyporr]

Excellent review and presentation, thanks!

[@samugv]

Vin diesel when he’s not shooting F&F:

[@eviluess]

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.

[@Translating...]

Very cool. Sounds amazing. Can you use this to bend the pitch of major thirds to get just intonation on a keyboard?

[@jijobuje]

Legendary keyboardist of dream theater explains the newest technology keyboard which is a new era for musicians. One of the uniquest video on youtube for me.

[@blueshorecreative3146]

Jordan you are such an excellent muso. So jealous of your jazz chords. :)

[@SmeagolTheBeagle]

I've been waiting for him to actually do something good on one of those things.

[@jmeditation]

This instrument is ridiculous! And I mean that in the most beautiful way.

[@CritER2023]

This should be kind of video that they show on facebook.

[@lolatu666]

Great demo!

[@shantanusingh9571]

I want SeaBoard in their next album 😍

[@mrjessiejones]

Nice video! thank you for uploading it!

[@r.t.matila7647]

So awesome! Ugh, I want one😩

[@AlbertKimMusic]

Buying this ASAP, BEST INVESTMENT

[@eviluess]

Awesome Design! MIDI Controllers(And other messages) can be sent to individual MIDI channel according to the Starting Keys.

[@taLLdavidproduction]

Finally a keyboard that makes sounds that are real

[@tysonboy1980]

My God, that was beautiful

[@therealhelmholtz]

I might be getting mine today!!!! If I get it I am naming it Fury.

[@ihork]

6:10 I imagine Infected Mushroom playing this keyboard

[@mattshay9393]

Someone PLEASE what song is he playing at the beginning?

[@matheuscastordeazevedo2128]

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease someone say if this 41 seconds music exists (or even similar to these one!) IF NOT, PLEASE JORDAN!! SHARE WITH US THIS SONG!!!

[@prajwalchougule]

matheus castor de azevedo in search of this 😭

[@mousumicute2230]

Great Piano Replaced all....!💚💚💚

[@ridge7524]

Sold.💯