The Misa Kitara is a digital

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controller and musical instrument developed in 2011 and discontinued in 2013. It allows for a guitar player to produce a synthesized sound using techniques and motions referential to guitar playing. It is built in the shape of an

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, complete with a full twenty-four

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neck. The name comes from the Finnish word for "guitar". The Kitara was the first digital musical instrument to combine the use of touch buttons for strings and frets with an 8 inch multi-touch screen. The player controls sound effects and parameters through this display, as opposed to strumming strings like on a traditional guitar. The display allows for comprehensive control as well as a wide-variety of noise and effect production. The produced sound changes based on the position, number, and movement of fingers on this display. The Kitara uses an internal

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with effects to generate sound. The Kitara is powered by an open-sourced

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based

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, making it possible to reprogram the Kitara, modify existing sounds, and program new ones. At the 2012 NAMM Show Misa Digital announced a stripped-down Kitara which does not have a synth engine. It went on sale on the Misa site

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