Kanye West isn’t any stranger to dabbling with know-how (he discussed a Teenage Engineering collaboration in 2019), however now there is a gadget you should purchase for your self. The rapper and electronics design agency Kano have introduced a Donda Stem Player that, because the identify implies, enables you to remix music from Kanye’s upcoming album Donda (plus your individual tunes) utilizing track stems.

The puck-like gadget reportedly enables you to isolate track elements and management facets like bass, drums, samples and vocals. You can reportedly cut up “any” track into stems. We’ve requested Kano how this works, however it’s unlikely that it’ll completely separate track components — that is a troublesome feat for a full-fledged PC, not to mention one thing as moveable as this.

The Stem Player additionally consists of acquainted instruments together with results, four-channel audio mixing, dwell sampling and real-time loop and pace controls. You navigate a lot of the interface by means of 4 touch-sensitive “light sliders” with haptic suggestions and customizable colours, and it can save you and share your creations with othrs.

You can pipe audio by means of the built-in speaker, Bluetooth or a 3.5mm headphone jack by means of quite a lot of lossy and lossless codecs (together with AAC, AIFF, MP3 and WAV). You’ll have simply 8GB of storage to work with, although — minus the bundled Donda stems.

You can order the Stem Player now for $200. That’s not a trivial outlay should you’re desperate to tinker with songs, however it’s comparatively reasonably priced so far as digital music-making units go. Just remember that it is actually only one half of a bigger inventive toolset, not your ticket to stardom.