The Apple iPiano
Apple’s new piano app for the iPhone promises to… oh wait, pardon me? really? It’s NOT an iPhone app? It’s an actual piano?
OK, so the iPiano is Apple’s stab at an actual electronic piano. It has an LCD screen that displays your music, automatically turns the ‘pages’ for you, and has a built-in teaching system.
The iPiano can store music and scores in it’s memory, and the lcd panel is also a touch-screen. It will also record and score the music that you compose.
Here is Apple’s blurb on it:
iPiano’s easy-to-use, no-gear-required interface is perfect for students and creative users. Behind that interface are powerful features for music prototyping, MIDI interactivity and productive workflow. iPiano produces music with the computer keyboard or an external keyboard. You can use iPiano to record and mix up to 16 tracks of original music with over 200 built-in instruments. Your composition can be exported as AIFF, QuickTime or MIDI. You can even control other MIDI applications, using iPiano as a virtual MIDI source
Somehow I don’t think that I’ll be seeing these at Canegie Hall anytime soon.
What do you think? Innovation, or taking “i-things” a little too far?
iOrgan?
iViolin?
iFlute?
Where are all the other iOrchestra instruments
Interesting, and certainly something worth checking out…any clue as to cost yet? Other than an arm and a leg, like most apple products.
iThink it’s a good idea. Private ownership of devices/software is better than putting apps in the hands of a web-based OS like Google’s.
I don’t quite believe it yet. Dear Apple.. please don’t flood the market with instruments.
iLike iDea. wiLL order when appear, for iSure.
iGor
When are they coming out with the iBass with the touch screen fret board.
I like this piano, can it be bought on line, i love iphone can i make calls from this piano. Why can’t apple make tabla, the Indian music instrument.
iLOVE IT!!
iWOULD REALLY LOVE TO HAVE ONE!!
THAT THING IS AWESOME!!
They day this piano comes out, I don’t know what I will do. I would get it the first launch day. I will go crazy the day it would be launched. Firstly because I love Apple and I love Piano!!!!!!!!!
iHate to break it to you guys, but this thing isn’t real. http://www.gearfuse.com/ipiano-if-apple-was-in-the-music-instrument-business/
It would be awesome if it was, though. I’d buy one.