Remember, the Fujitsu’s Turntable PC, we told you about back in November which allows you to control your MP3s, either from the laptop itself or from a connected player. Now, if you are a musician and not just a listener then we have SoundGate, a computer specially designed for musicians by Nicolas Gonzalez Garrido.

The SoundGate tablet PC comes preloaded with software tools that help individual learning, add tutor lessons and live playing. The Tablet facilitates the creative process by recording playing sessions, recognizing and transcribing music, prompting sheet music and lyrics, generating electronic accompanist sound and displaying onscreen timing and metronome. The SoundGate PC features a 10″ touchscreen LCD screen and a QWERTY flip keyboard which is just fine for writing lyrics. The SoundGate PC features playback/record buttons on top and volume knobs inside . I/O ports include headphones jack, RCA, USB, XLR, 6.3 mm audio jack, LAN/Magic and integrated optical drive. Music special functions include jog-dial with two used defined soft keys and two buttons for choosing an effect to apply to the songs and one for controlling the intensity of that effect.

And, that’s just not it, the designer has also designed a Music stand for SoundGate, for on-stage performances. The stand includes a flexible arm for adjusting the height and tilt of SoundGate and a foot pedal, for hands-free operation. Above all, the music stand also features integrated web cam and helium display that can be use to interact with other musicians, at remote locations, who own a similar SoundGate!

via GadgetRoad / Designer’s Site60460