CES New: Graduate from Rock Band to Synesthesia's Drum Line

If you’ve mastered Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and think you’re ready to try your chops by actually playing, Synesthesia Corp. might be drumming to your beat. The company unveiled its new digital drum pads, available later this year for $349. Each pad will come with a software suite that will allow you to program a variety of sounds — which aren’t limited to drums. From these pads you can pound away to belt out traditional keyboard synthesizer tones or even trigger digital samples. While this doesn’t have the structure of a game, you can do more than button mash to a beat.