{"id":197658,"date":"2024-10-14T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T19:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/rolis-new-instrument-is-both-an-ai-piano-teacher-and-a-digital-theremin"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T19:21:20","slug":"rolis-new-instrument-is-both-an-ai-piano-teacher-and-a-digital-theremin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/rolis-new-instrument-is-both-an-ai-piano-teacher-and-a-digital-theremin","title":{"rendered":"Roli\u2019s New Instrument Is Both an AI Piano Teacher and a Digital Theremin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P14JcRyJCEI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Roli, the maker of quirky, portable, and expressive <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/roli.com\/us\" class=\"\"  href=\"https:\/\/roli.com\/us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">digital pianos and keyboard instruments<\/a>, has a new device that can both teach budding pianists how to play music and provide seasoned musicians with a new way of adding filters and effects to their songs by waving their hands and wiggling their fingers.<\/p>\n<p>The Roli Airwave is a 14.5-inch tall stand with a camera on top. The camera is positioned downward to track the movements of a player\u2019s fingers as they dance across a keyboard sitting at the base of the stand. The movements of a player\u2019s hands that are captured by the camera are streamed in real time onto the screen of a tablet that sits on the easel-like Airwave stand. The visuals can be used as a teaching tool to show the player which fingers should strike which keys, or offer some additional guidance on how to play a song just right. Of course, the Airwave uses machine intelligence and computer vision to track the player\u2019s hands and to offer its advice on where those hands should be placed.<\/p>\n<p>The system costs $299 and should start shipping in February 2025. You\u2019ll also need one of Roli\u2019s keyboards (which range from $249 to $1,399) to pair with it. If you want to use it as a teaching tool, you\u2019ll also need an iPad or other tablet to set onto the stand to supply the visuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roli, the maker of quirky, portable, and expressive digital pianos and keyboard instruments, has a new device that can both teach budding pianists how to play music and provide seasoned musicians with a new way of adding filters and effects to their songs by waving their hands and wiggling their fingers. The Roli Airwave is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}