Apple's Siri voice assistant is designed to book appointments, play tracks on your iPhone - or even find nearby businesses (in America, at least).
But Yamaha has shown off a truly unique trick - a 'hack' that lets you play tracks on a Yamaha digital piano, simply by saying to a nearby iPhone, 'Play,' then the title of the track.
Yamaha performer Craig Knudsen shows off how it works - the secret being wi-fi and special digital tracks which also store a MIDI version (the file format that digital pianos understand). Simply saying, 'Play' automatically starts Siri - and the Disklavier - playing together.
The 'hack' uses Apple's Airplay technology to 'send' a track via wi-fi - but with MIDI cues built in, the format which digital pianos 'understand' as instructions. Cue the piano playing as if 'ghostly' hands are touching it
The 'hack' uses Apple's Airplay technology to 'send' a track via wi-fi - but with MIDI cues built in, the format which digital pianos 'understand' as instructions. Cue the piano playing as if 'ghostly' hands are touching it
The clever use of Siri was developed by Yamaha for its Disklavier digital piano series.
It relies on special music files with MIDI signals built in - so you won't be able to make the piano improvise your entire music collection.
The piano itself also can't receive music instructions via wi-fi - so hidden out of shot, there's an Apple Airport Express receiver unit, which receives the file and sends the instructions to the piano.
Naturally, this being Siri, there are some 'Easter Eggs' built in - for instance, saying, Play it again, Sam,' launches the piano into 'As Time Goes By' from Casablanca.
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