He plays silent chords on the keyboard, like a remote control of sorts, then the chords are run through the software, and the piano plays a spontaneous array of notes based on the Euclidean algorithm.

Player pianos work via a vacuum, where air is sucked through a few pin points in a piano roll with a bellows. A series of pipes leading to each key translate these small holes into notes.

Perforated rolls of paper, called piano rolls ... that one pixel corresponded with one key. With that done, each column could be assigned to a specific note on the piano. That takes care of ...

Step 6: We move to the our high synth part and Fold the piano roll to the C major scale again. Once more, we can draw in practically any notes from those available, and when played together with the ...

In the piano roll, the length of each note event in the display directly ... Whether a given note is deemed sharp or flat largely depends on the current scale or key. On the piano keyboard, two notes ...

As strange instruments go, this one might take the biscuit. It’s an automatic piano with just four keys, and, as soon as you press a key to play a note, the whole set of four move quickly away, ...