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Novation’s Launchpad is a next-generation musical instrument/DJ

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novation launchpadThis was too colorful, interactive and cool looking not to feature – the Novation Launchpad built together with Ableton is a 64-button grid that you use to create and control music. The buttons can be set to do anything really – play notes, trigger sequences and much more.

Launchpad comes with Ableton Live 8, but can be used to control other music software as well. You’ve got to take a look at the video to see what we’re talking about here: …

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Illuminated Fret Guitar

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The Learn To Play Illuminated Fret Guitar

The ‘Learn to Play’ Illuminated Fret Guitar has 132 LEDs in the fretboard that can show you how to play over 3,000 different chords! This device really takes learning how to play guitar to the next level, but has that ‘next level’ price tag of $400.

With this sort of technology, the guitar can help you learn how to play chords and simple songs within minutes, rather than having to teach yourself and really think about what you’re doing. Furthermore, being a standard shape, it allows you to progress onto real guitars without much hassle. To make this work, the guitar simply plugs into your computer to run the necessary programs for illuminating the LEDs. Although not featured at the moment, I think I’d like to see other developers offering songs for download to this piece of software.

Buy now!

Price: $399.95
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

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