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Product Launch · ROLI (2015) 2015

ROLI

Touch-responsive music instruments — used by Hans Zimmer, Steve Aoki and Calvin Harris.

ROLI

Chief Marketing Officer

Backed by Balderton, Foundry Group & Sony Innovation

Roli is a comprehensive music creation ecosystem that combines hardware, software and a developer platform. Their focus on touch-sensitive hardware and applications gives them an innovative approach to market and has differentiated their offering to prosumer and professional musicians alike. The ROLI suite ranges from consumer-friendly iOS apps to programmable software to programatic hybrid synthesizers.

Roli has been used and recognized globally by well-known studio musicians & DJs like Hanz Zimmer, Steve Aoki, Calvin Harris . In 2017 Pharrell Williams joined founder Roland Lamb, as Chief Creative Officer and investor in London.

Man in a white hoodie and cap holding a dark ROLI Seaboard keyboard up across his face against a black background
ROLI Seaboard Rise
Two men seated on a bench by a mossy brick wall; one in a blue sweater, the other in a pink satin bomber jacket
Pharrell Williams + Roland Lamb
Hands holding a gold iPhone running ROLI's NOISE app on the 'Dirty Organ' preset with colored control dials.
NOISE app in use
Four ROLI NOISE app screenshots: play drums, build loops, collect artist sounds (Steve Aoki), and share and remix.
NOISE app
Man in red stage light playing a ROLI Seaboard keyboard with backup singers; La La Land movie poster inset.
ROLI in La La Land
Two close-ups of a finger pressing into the soft ridged keywave surface of a ROLI Seaboard.
Top-down view of two hands playing a black ROLI Seaboard on a wooden desk beside a glass of water and pencil.
Overhead shot of a performer in a cap seen from behind, ringed by keyboards, synths, and drum pads on a dark stage.
ROLI x Kygo
MacBook on a desk showing the blend.io page for artist Solara's Venom Remix Project, flanked by a modular synth, MIDI pads and headphones
ROLI Seaboard RISE keyboard with a soft continuous silicone keywave surface, above the quote "Welcome to the future. The Seaboard RISE is a truly next level instrument." by KT Tunstall
CMO ROLI Seaboard