Piano Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Turn your iPad into a mini-keyboard with ION's Piano Apprentice

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 28th, 2011)

ION recently announced a new piano accessory for the iPad that will let you play and learn piano on a mini-keyboard. While piano-playing apps on the iPad are fun, they are not useful for instruction as the 9.7-inch display of the iPad is too small for a reasonably sized keyboard. ION solved ...

Ion's Concert Piano has a built-in iPad dock

by Mike Schramm (Jan 20th, 2011)

A while back at CES, I got to check out Gear4's Pocket Loops, a little keyboard with a built-in iPod touch dock, but Ion's Concert Piano takes that idea and goes big. It's a full-sized, 88-key piano with an iPad dock built into it. Just like the Pocket Loops keyboard, there's a downloadable app ...

Pianist Pro 1.5 for the iPad adds MIDI Mobilizer support from Line 6

by Matt Tinsley (Sep 13th, 2010)

From MooCowMusic comes the latest iteration of their renowned iPad app, Pianist Pro 1.5 (£5.99). Most notably, Pianist Pro now incorporates the MIDI Mobilizer technology from Line 6, enabling Pianist Pro on your iPad, with the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer adapter (£45) or wirelessly over Wi-Fi, ...

CES Watch: The good, the bad, the ugly

by Mike Schramm (Jan 12th, 2010)

CES wrapped up in Las Vegas on Saturday, so here's our third and final wrapup of iPhone and Mac-related accessories from the show. Enjoy! Posimotion introduced a Helix gaming grip for the iPhone -- like the Wii wheel, only for Apple's device. $20, which seems pricey to me. Don't even bother ...

Sting, Sarah McLachlan are hiding in your Garage(band)

by Mike Schramm (Apr 29th, 2009)

Apple has added new "Learn to Play" lessons to the latest version of GarageBand, including two lessons by Sting and the first one by Sarah McLachlan. Gordon Sumner (a.k.a. Sting, so named by his friends when he wore a shirt with black and yellow stripes) will teach you how to play "Message in a ...

You want Piano Hero on your Mac?

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 12th, 2007)

It's a sad fact that despite an ever-growing list of compatible goodies for the Mac, there are still some holdouts. I know there is often some hack for interfacing that wonky 90's-era plotter (thank you UNIX underpinnings), but there are a lot of apps out there we'd love to see native on the Mac, ...