Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This touch sensitive keyboard lets piano players shred — CES 2016”.
This is Ross Perot with the verge, it is CES 2016 and we are here talking with Roland Lam. He is the CEO, he is the founder and he is the inventor of the Seaboard, which is really crazy. Looking keyboard, we actually saw it. I think about a year ago, but now we’re seeing the new one, the Seaboard rise a smaller version. So what was the impetus for making this like? What? Where it kind of went into the idea? Well, it fundamentally came from jealousy because I you know, as a keyboard player like a jazz pianist and I really loved music and going out gigging and stuff, but when it came up time for like the guitar solo or the sax solo, I was like.
Why can’t? I do that on the piano. You know, if you can bend all the notes and you can kind of like milk, all the sound out of each note and really add depth of expression, and you just can’t do that on the keyboard. The Seaboard has five dimensions of touch, so the piano you get one dimension of touch, and that was a big deal 400 years ago when the piano was invented. When you say dimension like just like how hard you’re hitting in there well yeah.
In the case of the piano, it’s how you strike the key okay allows you to control soft to loud, like the pianoforte, the name of it came from that dimension because harpsichords and organs you couldn’t control that, like you, just turned on or off the note, but In the case of the piano, you could use how you would strike it, so the C word can do exactly the same thing. Based on how you strike these key ways you have. I tried that not at all so start out with by striking the key okay that I can handle exactly now after you’ve struck. I know you’re like this is amazing right.
I I cannot believe what I’m seeing before me after you struck. You have to strike the key you can you know where you can see down here. You can glide up and down like this you’re able to basically glide left to right.
You can also control it by sliding up and down. I see that the key, so you break a note and you can move up and down vertically as well and what is that actually doing? Well, this is changing the sound she’s, the different ways you move all changed, different, sound primers, and actually I just I just turned it on here, so you can each of these parameters or dimensions. You can turn on or off.
So if you want to play it just like a keyboard you can, but if you want to have all of these other dimensions, you can turn them on and what’s really great about. That is like let’s say: if you want to play a guitar, sound you. It’S all about bending the notes right, if you play a sax ound, it’s more about how you press in so this is the Seaboard rise. This is the you know.
This is what the dollars yep and it comes with a software called equator which allows you to map a lot of these different sounds to all the dimensions of touch, but then, just recently in December, we released an app as well, so you could control this seaboard. Vise with your laptop, but also the sound engine could be in your phone, it’s a pretty powerful app and it’s partly because we spent so many years developing the Seaboard and the 3d touch technology within the seaboard and the sound engine that we could then easily apply. It to like the new 3d touch API within the iPhone. If you want more videos like this, not as musically inclined, maybe but for got to do, is about more CES news.
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