![]() Kano and Yeezy did not immediately reply to requests for comment. Kanye West teased the device in a Twitter video Wednesday, playing an unreleased song called “JUNYA.” Getty Images for Universal Music It supports common audio formats like MP3 and FLAC - and can play audio through an internal speaker, a headphone jack or bluetooth device, according to its site. The gadget features four touch-sensitive lights and 8 gigabytes of storage. West shared a video of the Donda Player in action on Twitter Wednesday, manipulating the device to make loops and change speed using an unreleased track called “JUNYA.”Ī post shared by LIFE IS SO YEEZY – KW Archive Donda Player was developed in a collaboration between West’s Yeezy Tech brand and UK-based electronics startup Kano. Orders are open now and the device will ship to US and UK customers sometime “this summer,” according to its website. ![]() The device, which costs the same amount of money as West’s recent Gap collaboration jacket, shares a name with West’s upcoming album “Donda”. The cream-colored, disc-shaped gadget - called the “Donda Stem Player” - lets users change the speed of music, isolate individual instrumental parts and add effects like echo and reverb, according to its website and videos shared on social media. Kanye West is selling a $200, handheld device that he claims will enable users to “customize any song,” including changing the tempo, adding special effects and even playing a track backwards. Kanye West sued by Gap for $2M after failed Yeezy collaboration Kim Kardashian admits to feeling ‘a lot of guilt’ about Pete Davidson Yeezy shoes back on sale - months after Adidas split with Kanye West Badbadnotgood’s “Love Proceeding” was reduced to just two stems: drums and not drums.I wore Kanye West’s wife’s ‘condom’ dress on the streets of NYC - here’s what happened In fact, I often encountered this issue with music I uploaded to the Stem Player myself. Then the fourth stem, which is supposed to be for bass, was basically silent. The Armed’s “An Iteration,” for example, was broken down into drums, vocals and a single track of everything else. It would seem that fairly stripped-down hip hop productions will do ok, but as the complexity of a song increases the Stem Player starts to struggle parsing the different parts. There was also a decent amount of digital artifacts in the stems. Half the bass line was on its own track, while the other half was lumped in with the drums. The Stem Player handled “DIRTY!” from JPEGMAFIA and “Stonefruit” by Armand Hammer reasonably well, though there was some slight bleed through of the synth line into the vocal stem on “Stonefruit.” Nine Inch Nail’s “Closer” fared a little worse. The whole thing vibrates, too, with haptic feedback every time you touch a button or a strip, though it can lag behind your actual touch quite a bit. The main controls on the front are four touch-sensitive strips that light up to tell you what volume a track is at or what effect you’ve selected, for instance. ![]() And the vaguely fleshy hue doesn’t help matters. It doesn’t feel unpleasant, exactly, but it is slightly unnerving. It looks kinda like a sex toy, though, and is covered in what I assume are surplus Fleshlights. ![]() You can also create loops of little song chunks, reverse them, speed them up, slow them down and even add effects. Or if you find the sonar ping synth in “Jonah” unbearable, just turn it off. For instance, if you’re wondering what “Off the Grid” would sound like as an instrumental you can simply turn down the vocals. Using it you can change the volume of different stems, or tracks, in the songs on Donda. So what is it? Well, it’s basically a tiny puck-shaped computer dedicated specifically to remixing Kanye’s latest album. ![]()
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