Tag: Instruments
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Deal Of The Day: 40% Off On Jamstik Wireless Smart Guitar
Any budding guitarist (or anyone learning a new skill) will tell you that practice makes perfect, but that can be hard to do sometimes, especially when it involves lugging around a large instrument. The Jamstik Wireless Smart Guitar makes it possible to keep those fingers strumming, fingerpicking, bending, and sliding without having to carry a…
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Deal Of The Day: 40% Off On Jamstik Wireless Smart Guitar
Look, you don’t need a whole guitar to play guitar. We live in an age where electronics can recreate any sound you want, and the Jamstik Wireless Smart Guitar gives you the essentials, which is some strings and some frets. Everything else is done digitally. Apply vibrato, bend a string, fingerpick—Jamstik feels and performs like…
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Mogees Turns Just About Anything Into An Instrument
Finding yourself always tapping away on surfaces, creating a beat from stuff that wasn’t meant to be musical? Well then, Mogees is just for you. It’s a special vibration sensor that attaches to anything, and allows you to map different vibration patterns to different instruments. This way you can turn your living space into a…
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Moog Theremini is a Thermin For The Rest Of Us
If you’ve ever heard a Theremin, you might’ve become intrigued by this otherworldly instrument. Used for decades as the eerie instrument in countless movies, as well as being popular with psychedelic rock bands of the 70’s, the Theremin is intriguing but also hard to play. The Moog Theremini Professional Theremin on the other hand tries…
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DrumPants Are Exactly What They Seem To Be
You’re looking at a set of flexible, velcro-attached strips with three touch sensitive zones. Each one of these zones can be assigned one of 100+ sounds so that you end up with a 6-instrument percussion set right on your thighs (or any other body part you feel like using). The strips are connected to a…
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DJ Station For Kids – One Turntable And A Roll Up Mat
By Andrew Liszewski And you thought the fine art of DJ’ing was only something that could be mastered by under-manicured cats. Following up on the surprisingly popular Cat Scratch Turntable is a version designed for the other creature that’s prone to destroying your home. Kids. Instead of being made from just cardboard, though, this one’s…
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Forte Table Stylishly Turns Your Casio Keyboard Into A Baby Grand
By Andrew Liszewski Just because you don’t have the cash to spring for a Steinway grand piano in your living room, doesn’t mean you still can’t feel like you’re playing at Carnegie Hall while tickling the ivories—err, plastic—keys on your Casio keyboard. 45 Kilo designed this Forte table which is styled after a large, classical…
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Tascam iXZ Mic & Instrument Interface For iOS Devices
By Andrew Liszewski What I like best about Tascam’s iOS device-friendly audio adapter is that it works with pretty much any application that lets you record, sample, or monitor a live audio feed. A single, balanced XLR input lets you plug in professional grade mics, audio equipment or instruments, and a set of AA batteries…
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Print Your Own d-touch Sequencer And Drum Machine
By Andrew Liszewski According to Fatboy Slim, everybody needs a 303, but since they’re no longer manufactured and hard to come by, not everyone can find or afford a Roland TB-303 sequencer. There are software-based alternatives, but who doesn’t prefer the hands-on approach when it comes to making music? Researchers at the University of Southampton…
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TableDrum App Turns Your Incessant Finger Drumming Into Actual Drum Sounds
By Andrew Liszewski I’m a notorious finger drummer. Particularly when I find something to drum on that produces a really good sound. So my sympathies to my friends and loved ones because this new TableDrum app basically makes any surface sound like a professional drum kit. If your goal is becoming a drummer by taking…