A typical piano has 88 keys spanning just over seven octaves. There are other, smaller keyboards or synthesizers that have fewer keys – most come in increments of 25, 32, 49, 61 or 72 keys.

A neural network maps those eight buttons to something meaningful on the 88-key piano keyboard. Being a neural network, the mapping isn’t a fixed one-to-one or even one-to-many.

Digital piano vs keyboard: summary. To sum up then, the distinction between a digital piano and an electronic keyboard is fairly clear. Broadly speaking, a digital piano will have weighted or ...

I took piano lessons briefly as a kid, before moving on to guitar and trumpet, so I know how to read music in general, but not very well on the piano. The illuminating keys helped me learn “Let ...

So she developed a system -- the rainbow piano technique -- in which each piano key and pitch has a corresponding color. “In the beginning, he wasn’t really learning music, he was learning ...