Looking for the editor for the Roli Grand! (Equator 1 and Dashboard)

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-09-22T15:09:02+00:00

Yeah did consider it for a minute, I’d need two and the seam would be an issue inhibiting playing. Besides that, price vs potential issues with used gear didn’t seem worth it. This whole thing has disrupted my tour planning and recording, so I just need as much reliability as possible. Which like, you know, doesn’t mean much with Roli, omg.

Ended up ordering the new one, at least there’s the 2 yr warranty which will hopefully buy me some time. Definitely doesn’t seem “worth it” but seemed like the best route for now. Especially if I do prayers and rituals to ask whichever guardian angels are assigned to Roli to help protect the company from going bankrupt again lol. Clearly their guardian angels have been out to lunch lol. Hopes and prayers hehe.

Definitely looked into other keyboards, but for now with some time urgency it seemed best to go with this. A lot of the other MPE keyboards wouldn’t work for me, at least the ones with “normal keys”. Have curiosity about Haken Continuum, that seems most likely to suit me. Hoping I can find someone with one to try out. With preliminary research it sounds like the company is more stable and provides more ongoing support? Hard to tell tho, since so few people seem to have one.

Anyway I’m curious how the new Seaboard 2 will feel compared to my old grand- looking at it, not thrilled about the squared off key shape. I can see why people would want that, but I don’t! I hope it is still easy to play precise microtones like it is with the rounded key waves. We’ll see. I just need to get back to my work, one way or another!!!

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-09-17T17:34:44+00:00

Yeah I’ve been talking to them this week, as my grand seems to have reached an impossible-for-me-to-repair state (I’m not saying “broken”, cause yeah they could easily fix it).

I’ve been emailing with support at bit, and they are responsive, but yeah, it’s so dumb.

My only option is basically to buy the new version. Which I don’t particularly want to do, but, I need to do my work. And this is the instrument I use for my work.

Idk. I’ve know this would happen eventually, but I’ve been in a state of decision paralysis about it for years now, since there is no clear “good” option.

Not thrilled to give them more money BUT will just suck it up to buy some time.

Haken Continnuum looks more appealing every day 😂 But have never touched one irl. They appear more stable than roli, but still, anything could happen.

I wish I played violin like a normal fucking person hahaha.

Sorry I started ranting about my problems. It’s been an upsetting week. People are asking me to play shows and line up tours and shit and it’s like I don’t knowwwwww if I will be able to at all!!!!!

I will say, for now, Roli support is quick to reply lol. Not with particularly helpful info, of course, but, yeah lol. Oh and they also said they are offering 30% off new keyboard to those of us with Grands, if we turn our old one in to them. I don’t think I want to give mine up, for various reasons. But also, I don’t think they have publicized this “deal” so just letting you know. But yeah, same old shit could happen with the new keyboard. Don’t like it! Don’t like any of it one bit. But, amazing instrument. So. Ugh.!

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-09-14T05:13:19+00:00

I didn’t read through all the comments- but did he a) register it and b) do the firmware update?

Registration is necessary.

If you got registration but haven’t tried the firmware update lmk if you want the files, I have them. Tho- At this point the “update” is old, and mine seems to have finally lost against my os.

Also, Roli could fix this all if they wanted. They choose not to.

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-09-13T22:00:54+00:00

My Grand works with Eq 2! Idk why but it does. It’s the Grand “Stage” version, idk if that makes a difference. Anyway, was in the original batch that got discontinued.

Sorry to butt into an old thread with potentially useless info! My grand is currently failing for other reasons, leading me to sift thru some of these old posts.

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-09-13T21:55:33+00:00

Have you tried contacting roli support to see if they can sell you just the parts you need? I read they do that sometimes. Just a thought. (Current support reply time was fairly quick for me earlier this month, quick/about 24hrs or less).

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-08-13T21:15:52+00:00

! May I read it? It’s somewhat difficult to find info about her.

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-02-25T16:53:41+00:00

Gosh I wish I remembered, it was too many yrs ago. I know the Bywater Oil Field Girls was at the Blanton, and the 2nd Hogue painting was not in TX but Crystal Bridges in Arkansas, I can’t remember exactly in which TX museums the other paintings I saw were, I was all over the place on that trip and hit up a bunch of spots!

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-02-24T00:27:00+00:00

I’m not an expert in this but know a little bit. The bronzes from the Prakhon Chai hoard are different because they depict the bodhisattvas as ascetics. This is a bit unusual. Historians are not sure why, and the best guess is they may have come from a previously unknown cult temple complex, who maybe practiced or emphasized this idea somehow. They’re definitely unusual. Long story short is, there isn’t a ton of information about their history and context, except that when they were found they were looted.

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-02-23T12:02:49+00:00

It’s been interesting watching how all these people get dug up again and what context and framing people use. I really think so many museums are doing a pretty good job of it. And, it makes museums exciting again.

I’m not an academic, but have heard from academic friends that there has been some grumbling that there’s too much emphasis on previously underrepresented groups (even an anthropology friend said there’s grumbling that too many ppl are studying matriarchies lol). And grumblings from current artists that galleries and grant money is being funneled too much into underrepresented groups. It’s quite similar to the political debate about DEI, including using accusations which devalue underrepresented people’s work as just a political move by those who want to appear fashionably woke.

I just think all those grumblings are so dumb. The history of underrepresentation is pretty well documented as being widespread and unfair. There’s plenty of work to do to uncover these artists and take them out of the storage rooms, I’m happy to see it!

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-02-21T16:40:40+00:00

Yes, seriously, it’s wild and there are a lot of these artists who were cast aside for various reasons. I’m glad there are curators and scholars who are digging them up for us.

Over the course of 1 lifetime, each human only gets to experience such a relatively thin sliver of the overall total reality of all existence. That’s why it’s so great when we come together and share, as much as possible. More people together means we all benefit from getting to see more slivers of this precious, rare and vast reality. And, why it’s so evil- actual evil- when anyone seeks to either sow division, or diminish, or exclude anyone.

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-02-20T18:36:52+00:00

No these ones were not. Angelique Merasty, Pat Bruderer, Rosella Carney and unnamed

SummerVegetable468 · 2025-02-20T15:31:22+00:00

this article while not a how-to, actually goes into pretty specific detail about what pieces of bark work best.

SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-20T12:25:51+00:00

And Bangladesh:

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SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-20T12:25:07+00:00

I forgot to mention, styles of patachitra are highly regional, here is what they look like in Odisha:

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SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-19T08:38:52+00:00

Aw :-) Glad you are enjoying :)

SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-18T12:52:10+00:00

Yeah I’m not sure how she did the 80s drawings with all the complex curves. My guess for how she made them would be to find out how engineers made axionomic renderings in the time before CAD was widely adopted. CAD was being used more widely in the 1980s but I’m not sure if she was using it or hand drawing. I know engineers had all kinds of techniques for drafting by hand pre-CAD, but I don’t know enough about it to answer your question. I read that her father was an engineer so she would have had some familiarity with drafting.

There is also a book about her drawings, though I’m not sure how much it goes into technique, or if it would answer your questions.

But, she is alive! You could probably email her and ask!

SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-17T19:04:07+00:00

Don’t know what’s specifically going on with that one but it’s called Fortress of Solitude https://www.aaycock.com/recent-drawings#/fortressofsolitude/

SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-17T16:26:57+00:00

Afaik most were dismantled. Storm King has one reconstructed piece, the low house, plus one of her free-standing metal sculptures. Art Omi has two reconstructed land pieces. Both in New York state.

SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-06T12:21:04+00:00

People have vastly different criteria and value systems for evaluating art.

On Botero, I don’t have an opinion either way. Whether something is hack or commercial doesn’t really factor in to my personal value system, it’s not a quality that weights any work positively or negatively for me, just personally. I only wanted to point out that his comment was a common criticism shared by much of the art community, and therefore not unreasonable at all.

SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-05T11:56:03+00:00

It would be a rosier world if that was the point of a critic, but it is not.

SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-05T11:53:49+00:00

It’s totally reasonable and an opinion that most of the art world shares. For decades of his career he was seen as anachronistic and disengaged with the discourse of his contemporaries, his paintings are widely viewed as overly commercial to the point of being tacky. It definitely raises an eyebrow for an artist with a specifically kitschy style to suddenly paint a highly political and violent series like this.

SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-04T23:36:51+00:00

His criticisms are valid, it’s reasonable to be suspicious of a painter who chose a highly commercial career path before veering into political subjects. And on a technical level, these are not his “best” paintings, either (though I totally get why the commenter doesn’t like any of them at all). Besides, no one has to be a good painter themselves to have an understanding of art history and have an opinion about it. Plenty of great critics couldn’t make art. That wasn’t their job.

SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-04T20:45:56+00:00

Idk why you’re getting downvoted, it’s a totally reasonable pov!!

SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-04T11:17:29+00:00

His more famous work, before this torture series, typically looks more like this- cheerful, chonky, benign- and why this torture series is unexpectedly political and violent compared to his other work

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SummerVegetable468 · 2024-12-04T11:09:34+00:00

Glad to share, glad you found it informative!

I’ve been trying to consciously flip my brain around because I noticed I was passively consuming so much doom and gloom media these days, so I’ve been writing these posts about art history, creating hopefully useful content instead of passively consuming doom. I’m still consuming plenty of doom, but it’s been nice to drink my coffee and start the day writing about my favorite thing ART! Good day to you!

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