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okay we're good I've been in love with all these crazy futuristic keyboards for a few years now when it first debuted the Seaboard grande only catches that instrument is almost $9,000 really kinda limits it's just a very rich or they're very talented this is the Roli seaboard rise it came out late last year it's a little more in my price range 49 key version here is $1200 there's a 25 key one for $800 again that's still pretty expensive but it's the kind of price range that opens it up to independent musicians series hobbyists or people who may not be as musically talented but really liked playing TV theme songs think about a traditional piano it has a set number of sounds it can make and there's really no variations a pretty static instrument doesn't really matter where you hit the seat key it's always can produce the same C sound now when digital keyboards and MIDI controls came out very quickly you start to see pitch wheels separate dials let you change the modulation entirely unlike a guitar is spinning a string rule DC board takes it idea step further at first blush roll these instruments look like a keyboard but all the keys kind of bleed into one another you can literally press anywhere on the silicon pad and produce the sound these grooves which really calls key waves are really just guideposts kind of li know where the traditional notes are everything otherwise is just a sound producing sensor so you'll notice as I'm kind of moving my finger and get kind of a wiggle sound this is just undulating if I slide it all up and down you get every little sound between really calls this five dimensional touch what it means is beyond just the note itself it's tracking how hard you press down whether or not you continue to press down are you wiggling left or right up or down all these changes matter and it can change the tone dramatically you don't have to play it that way you don't have to like have all the settings you can change it to a traditional piano you can just the sensitivity anywhere in between but my question to you is why would you ever do that it's like buying a Lamborghini and just taking it to grocery store so what I like about using Game of Thrones theme song is that it has a very strong and well defined melt everyone knows it the nuances in playing it like people actually can identify certain strange sounds and stop and stammer a little bit certain sounds have fluent trying to play it on this versus like normal piano versus guitar really shows the potential and also the potential learning curve using an instrument like this so for example if you're doing kind of like the intro March you really got a hit just on the middle if you don't you're gonna get a little bit of a wavering sound it's gonna sound off if you keep this finger down and try to transition it's gonna make you kind of slide into it other things is like you really gotta start playing notes more like a like a violin and extent like you've got a like know that you're going to slide a bit so just really kind of milk it so here I can push down harder or softer and it's gonna change the volume a little bit hitting right down the middle especially on one giant non-colored pad like it takes time it takes effort so it's like like that took me two days to get that without like kind of screwing up and flat hang a sharp it is a beautiful pretty piece and once you kind of get the hang of it you can do some really amazing stuff so that's definite too far up and it changed basically freeze that I have here a change to have a horn sound let's see what arrives you should really think of this not as a keyboard pan of analog but some kind of a new instrument that takes the face of the keyboard and really hits like more of a stream kind of thing you really should kind of like just own into like a shaking the vibrato the learning curve trying to get more accurate more precise so once you do that you can do some great crazy stuff with it and it's really fun to mess up on this I can't stress that enough as painful as this was to listen to for you guys and for myself and as much time as I put on this every time I screw up it's still a fun challenge it is a premium product this is not for like an everyday consumer you should not learn this is your first instrument but if you are a serious hobbyist or you are looking to do some kind of new music and get like a different kind of sound I definitely recommend giving this thing a shot shot try so because Rowley is the Seaboard could be used for Titian the Seaboard can be used a tradition the Seaboard can be used as a tradition so what I like about you blah English I'll also cuz of Vaudreuil portray a vet