The MPiano is a collaboration between Alpha Pianos and the Porsche Design team. It is a touch-sensitive keyboard with adjustable key characteristics, so you can play anything from a grand piano, to a church organ, to a harpsichord, and everything in between.
Coming from Alpha Pianos and with design input from Porsche, no less, the MPiano has a touch-sensitive mechatronic keyboard (that’s where the M comes from in the name).
Basically beneath each note there are adjustable actuators, meaning that you can physically change the feel of the keyboard so that it plays like a grand piano, church organ, synthesizer, or anything else you can think of. The possibilities are almost unlimited.
The pressure-sensitive keys also feature polyphonic aftertouch, where vibrato and volume can be modified by sliding your finger up or down a key.
An iPad (which has its own stand) serves as the interface for the MPiano using the Actor iOS app, through which four different profiles can be set up for the instrument to assume at a single tap.
The elegant, sleek, and minimal design seen above is just a prototype, but it is now in production, and although no price has been released for it yet there has already been a huge amount of interest in it, including from some big names in the music industry.
It could well be that the MPiano becomes the supercar of the piano world.
To find out more please head on over to Alpha Pianos website here.