ROLI enters administration; developer uses AI to make its licensed music software run offline
johnowhitaker · x · 2026-10-26
Music hardware maker ROLI has officially gone into administration. Owner johnowhitaker worried about losing the bundled software for his Seaboard Rise 2, since it does a monthly online licence check.
Using AI, he modified the music software he bought to run fully offline — a handy example of fixing niche software abandonment with AI.
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