Kanye West Archives - Stuff South Africa https://stuff.co.za/tag/kanye-west/ South Africa's Technology News Hub Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:35:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://stuff.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/favicon-transparent-1-150x150.png Kanye West Archives - Stuff South Africa https://stuff.co.za/tag/kanye-west/ 32 32 Kanye West’s new Donda Stem Player is not a Bluetooth speaker, will let you “customize any song” https://stuff.co.za/2021/08/26/kanye-west-donda-stem-player-customize-song/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:01:52 +0000 https://stuff.co.za2021/08/26/kanye-west-donda-stem-player-customize-song/ Everyone’s favourite mentally ill musician, Kanye West (no judgement, it’s just a thing), has a new toy for budding artists to play with. The Donda Stem Player might look like a cross between an Ultimate Ears Roll 2 and a Fleshlight but it’s not a Bluetooth speaker — though we suppose you could use it [...]

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What does the Donda Stem Player do?

https://twitter.com/yevideo/status/1430543251442999299?

West’s new device, part of a partnership with tech company Kano (you’ll see the Yeezy Tech x Kano branding at the official website), is kind of like a Bluetooth speaker, in that it contains a 97dB speaker inside its slightly fleshy confines, but it’s designed to let you “customize any song”, according to its website. A couple of demos (like the one above) have turned up online and it comes across like a musical instrument designed to modify existing songs.

The official website says that the Donda Stem Players features:

  • [the ability to] control vocals, drums, bass, and samples
  • Isolate parts
  • Add effects
  • 4 channel lossless audio mixing
  • Real-time loop and speed control
  • Tactile effects
  • Save, playback and share mixes
  • Customise colours

Only it says it in all caps, because Kanye. Or Ye, at some point this year. The little device supports a range of file formats (.AIFF, .AIF, .FLAC, .M4A, .MP3, .WAV, .WAVE, .AAC, .ALAC, and .MP4), includes Bluetooth, haptics, a 3.5mm jack and is powered by USB-C and will set buyers back $200 (R3,000). The store won’t sell you more than three at a time.

Release is set for a vague ‘Summer 2021’, but it’ll supposedly launch when West’s new album, Donda, launches on 29 August. We’ll have to see if that actually happens. As weird a concept as this is, we can see the Donda Stem Player turning out some really interesting stuff — in the right hands. Not ours, obviously.

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