Keyboard Instruments

Roli

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micamahler

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Opening post by micamahler

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https://www.roli.com/

a new type of keyboard, made predominantly of silicone. You can do vibrato, tremolo, glissando, directly on the key, without pitch bend or pedals of any kind. In my opinion, the exemplary videos do not do it justice because it is such a unique instrument that it takes time to properly understand what to play with it.

Rather expensive, the 25-key version is 800 euros, but I have a desire to try it or write a piece specifically for it...

https://www.roli.com/

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Reply 3 by Kappa

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micamahler wrote:

avrei una voglia di provarla o scriveci un pezzo apposta...

I have a feeling that a piece with this instrument alone would get tiring quite quickly... either it's very short... or I see it tucked into some ensemble

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Reply 5 by Thesimon

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It came out about a year ago, if not even a bit more. I tried it in a recording studio in Rome where they bought it just as it was released. Nice idea; in a studio, you find infinite applications and it saves a lot of time. Regarding live use, I honestly don't know how useful it can be. Perhaps in contexts of heavy electronic music, it might find more space.

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Reply 7 by Natan

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I would say this idea is much better than the anachronistic timbral research carried out on instruments already (natively) equipped ...without various "tinkering"

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