Konitar

A konitar is a musical instrument.

The instrument, a prototype of which was designed and built by Draco in 2009, is based on the Fender Stratocaster guitar controller that came bundled with Rock Band. The controller interfaces with a computer (or other piece of hardware capable of running the instrument's corresponding custom software) via USB and is used to play selected sound samples by pressing their corresponding fret buttons and clicking the strum toggle. Depending on the conditions specified in the software the konitar can either blend two (or more) samples together when multiple buttons are held or play an entirely different sample. Likewise, clicking the strum bar up or down can play the same or different samples based on the specified settings. The "solo fret" buttons at the bottom of the guitar neck can also have their own samples assigned to them, though generally they are never used as there are enough permutations of the five main buttons to satisfy the demands of recording a single track.

Draco used the konitar to perform accompaniment for certain tracks on his album Songs I Wrote When I Was A Dragon. The instrument also appears in the music video for "When I Make That Jump (Promise Me)", though it was heavily modified cosmetically to obfuscate what it actually is since outwardly it is essentially just an unimpressive-looking Rock Band controller (a proper "final" version of the instrument was never constructed so the prototype is what was used instead).