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My Million Nanocent Sony Vita Idea: The Musical Instrument

Having seen some of the quirky uses for the PlayStation Vita's rear panel, might I suggest my own:

The Vita Instrument: A full sampler system with six "strings" or pads across the rear panel for users to play. It could be a guitar, a drum-pad, a theremin, wave modulator, or anything else the creator wants to play. As with other sample-based systems, it can use time signatures to keep everything together.

Use the shoulder buttons to move between tracks, play your tunes, add a vocal track via the microphone (it could even use autotune to make you sound good) and you have a whole studio in your hands, one that is far more intuitive to create with than the fill-in-the-box approach of most music creators.

But, the cool part is, as well as being a recording studio, it could be used live. Mic it up and you have a novel, highly portable, instrument that could replace having to lug a guitar around. Sure you wouldn't see Metallica or  The Prodigy widdling with it on stage, but any of the tech-obsessed groups (especially those on Sony labels) would stand out using it to create real live music.

Just a thought! And a shame there isn't a Sony home developer community to encourage this kind of work!

Currently playing on my Vita/PS4/PS5