Composing with a Yamaha Hybrid Piano and Notion App for iOS
The efficiency of composing music with a digital piano over traditional methods is roughly equivalent to the difference between writing with a pencil and writing with a computer. It's much faster to enter notes or chords into a digital piano connected to a computer running music notation software. Nevertheless, that method still mimics handwritten music with its note by note/chord by chord approach, and requires a high degree of music theory and analysis. And working with a digital piano with limited sounds and a spring keyboard action doesn't exactly inspire pianistic creativity. But what if there was a way to compose by simply playing spontaneously on a keyboard that felt and sounded like a magnificent concert grand piano? That is what we explore in this video, using a Yamaha N3X AvantGrand hybrid grand piano, the Yamaha MD-BT01 Bluetooth MIDI wireless adapter, and Notion for iPad/iPhone/iOS music notation app.
