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The Roli Airwave Is Both an AI Piano Teacher and a Digital Theremin


The Roli Airwave uses infrared cameras to track your hand movements on a keyboard. That visual data can be used to teach you how to play a song or to compose entirely new sonic creations.

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 company also makes the light-up Piano M keyboard (formerly called Lumi Keys), which is focused on music learners and which incorporates the Roli Learn platform to teach people how to play. Lamb says his goal is to always keep a human as the integral part of the music creation process, even if AI systems make it easier to build songs by enabling artists to just ask “give me an 808 beat” or some other command.

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