Summon a crescendo with a wave, add luscious layers with a flick of the wrist, or create endlessly evolving textures with a gliding gesture. Combine ROLI Airwave with ROLI Piano M, ROLI Seaboard or any other MIDI keyboard to turn natural movements into unique musical moments.
Connect Airwave to any MIDI keyboard to unlock Spatial Expression. Now you can play the air above your instrument using intuitive gestures.
Elevate your music production: Raising your hands is the perfect way to add intensity and excitement to a sound – just like a conductor in front of a real orchestra.
Like twisting a knob, but in the air; Air Tilt gives you fine control of filter frequencies, LFOs, effect mixes, and more.
Moving your hands horizontally across the keys is the perfect way to tweak your sounds further – modifying new layers you introduced with Air Raise, for example.
Like the Slide gesture on Seaboard, moving your hands from front to back over the keys is a great way to add texture, depth, or extra layers to a sound.
Air Flex refers to the angle of your wrist, from straight ahead to pointed downwards. It’s a great way to add additional expression to larger movements – like Air Raise or Air Glide.
Airwave comes with ROLI Airwave Player (Beta), an inspiring plug-in, compatible with most DAWs and packed with instantly inspiring sounds and stunning 3D visuals that react to your movements. Each preset has been carefully crafted by our team of expert sound designers and calibrated to respond intuitively to each Dimension of Air.
Airwave’s infrared cameras track all 27 joints in each of your hands at 90 frames per second — giving you incredibly precise control of your musical expression.
Airwave works with any MIDI keyboard, but it’s designed with Seaboard and Piano M in mind. Simply connect it to your ROLI instrument to expand the dimensions of touch already on offer.
Airwave is the first new product to take advantage of our latest technological breakthrough, Music Intelligence. Based on the five “keys” of sound, sight, touch, vision, and voice, Music Intelligence unites current and future ROLI instruments into an expanding ecosystem for creation and expression.
ROLI Airwave, when used with ROLI music creation software is compatible with the latest versions of both macOS and Windows.
Only Apple Silicon (Apple M1 or later processor) is supported for macOS.
Typically, our products work seamlessly with operating systems and DAWs released within the last 6 to 8 years. However, when testing new products and software updates, we prioritise newer OS versions over older OS versions.
Always back up your work before installing any new software or updates. We strongly advise against updating your software or operating system in the middle of a critical project, to avoid any potential disruptions or compatibility issues.
Airwave is designed for ROLI Seaboard and Piano M, and offers the greatest possible degree of expression when paired with these instruments.
Airwave is also compatible with all third-party MIDI keyboard controllers via a simple calibration procedure.
Airwave integrates seamlessly with: ROLI Seaboard 2 (FKA Seaboard RISE 2), Up to 2 ROLI Seaboard Ms (FKA Seaboard Block M), Up to 2 ROLI Piano Ms (fka LUMI Keys Studio Edition), Older generations of Seaboard, excluding Seaboard Grand., Other MIDI keyboards
13GB required for ROLI Connect, ROLI Dashboard and ROLI Studio, 18GB required for ROLI Airwave Player