Siri hacked to play piano

http://9to5mac.com/2011/12/20/play-it-again-siri-hacked-to-play-piano/

by kposehn • 15 years ago

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geuis• 15 years ago

I'm skeptical. Hard to explain why, just a feeling. Not enough technical details to explain how this is supposedly being done. The entire video has a hoaxy feeling to it.

I'd love to be proven wrong, if anyone has related info.

safetyscissors• 15 years ago

I think that the audio/music from the iPhone is passed to airplay which is triggered by sending commands to Siri, then via the airport express is connected to a device created by Yamaha to then convert the song to play on the piano.

cleverjake• 15 years ago

Siri has basically nothing to do with this. There is no hack to make it work with Siri. They are just using it as a voice controlled play button.

From the original article - "[It] works by streaming a special MIDI version of the music file through an Apple Airport Express and into the Disklavier piano, which then reproduces the piece, complete with key and pedal impressions."

the_cat_kittles• 15 years ago

Yea there is absolutely nothing impressive about this. Thank you for saying it in black and white.

meatmanek• 15 years ago

The Music app can play MIDI? More importantly, the Music app can send MIDI commands over Airplay to an Airport Express, which can then send them (over what? audio? USB?) to the piano?

shalmanese• 15 years ago

The iPhone doesn't natively support playing MIDI files. Is it using an app to do this?

agildehaus• 15 years ago

It appears from the comments on that video that the iPhone is actually the control device. It's sending MIDI commands over Wifi to that piano.

pud• 15 years ago

Whether real or not, this would look more legit if there weren't so many jump cuts.

terhechte• 15 years ago

The most interesting thing about that video is that I'd love to have such a piano in my living room just to have it play great piano music for me all day.

wazoox• 15 years ago

20 years ago a friend of mine proposed me to buy one (almost new) for the ridiculously low sum of 7000 euros (equivalent). Unfortunately I was utterly broke back then, like every time I had an incredible bargain opportunity :)

jvoorhis• 15 years ago

This reminded me how much I wanted a Disklavier. I've played piano for much of my life, and when I acquired a Roland Juno 5 years ago, the first thing I did was write some custom MIDI software to... test it out. While I'd probably be more careful with such expensive equipment, I'd love to know what happens if I fed it the same program that fried a voice chip on the Juno.

(Like cleverjake pointed out, the music is really made by the Disklavier's controller. Still a fun hack.)

Siri hacked to play piano

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