You need piano-to-piano because it provides lossless sound quality in online lessons. It does this by connecting digital pianos in the call rather than capturing audio with a microphone and speakers like traditional video calling. While 1on1 Piano does well with acoustic lessons, the limitation of using audio for piano lessons is shown by “student side, teacher side” meme that periodically makes its rounds through social media: as teachers, we can go to a lot of effort to make sure that the online lesson experience is good on our end by using good mics and speakers, only to have a student suffer poor sound quality because they are using basic hardware. But who can blame them? They are beginners in music, so they don’t know how to set up and connect a microphone, or what speakers make good sound, and trying to get better equipment can be prohibitive. So, do we just accept those limitations and laugh at memes about it, or is there a better way?
Meme that was circulating among music teachers
1on1 Piano Solves The Problem!
At 1on1 Piano, we passionately believe that we have created a better app, and we want you to have it. While we do provide high quality audio capture, we go further by enabling users to connect their pianos in the call. Piano-to-piano bypasses much of the complexity that we experience in trying to get good online lesson sound, making life easier for both student and teacher, while dramatically increasing the quality of experience. The animation below shows all the points where quality can deteriorate when we rely on audio in a video call.
This is the path that the sound of your piano takes to your student during a traditional video call
1ON1 Piano skips all the compression and enables you to play the other user’s piano
By making piano-to-piano technology accessible, 1on1 Piano enables the users in a call to play each other’s pianos through the call, and that’s why 1on1 Piano sounds so much better. Digital pianos track what key is played, the velocity at which it is played, how long it is held, and when it is played. 1on1 Piano sends that data to the other piano in real time through the video call. The receiving piano plays it back through its speakers, or on player pianos like Yamaha Disklavier, Steinway Spirio R, and PianoDisc Prodigy II, it actually moves the keys to create an exact copy of what the other user played. There is no compression, and you are not limited by the tiny speakers and microphone that your student may have. You don’t even have to invest in expensive audio equipment yourself. You just need a digital piano and your favorite device (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, or Chromebook). With the piano-to-piano technology of 1on1 Piano, your online piano lesson really will sound as good as if you were right there playing your student’s piano
Hear The Difference
Watch and Listen as Paul Demonstrates the Difference Between 1on1 Piano and Traditional Video Chat
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