With a name like Skoog this product could be absolutely anything and to be honest once I had taken it out of the box it still had me baffled however with the tag line, “music for everyone”, I was really intrigued. The Skoog is in fact a customisable music interface that simplifies playing a decent tune to a few basic movements, making music accessible to young children and people with disabilities and special needs. The Skoog 2.0 is a squidgy black cube with 5 interactive colour coded sides, you can create sounds by poking or squeezing the sides or tilting it in different directions, to do this you need to synchronise the Skoog to a compatible iPhone/Pad (iOS 9 and up) through the free app or plug it into your Mac or PC via USB and download the free software. Here you can customise the sounds, Classic Synth, Breathe Bass, Ice for example all fairly similar electronic synth sounds, you can also customise the sensitivity and scales as well as link it up to an external MIDI for even more creative options. After playing with the Skoog 2.0 I could see that this could be a great tool for musical therapy, it can be attached to a stand made really stable for less physically able people and all the sounds it produces are quite dreamy and relaxing. As for kids I think it is too simple and the novelty will wear off, yes it is compatible with some serious tech but that’s like taking a tambourine into a professional recording studio and I think for its incredible high price tag you are better off getting a child a keyboard or guitar to introduce them into to world of music. The Skoog 2.0 has been redesigned with a black body and a thin outline circle of colour to differentiate the sides, the old Skoog was white with full coloured circles making it much more attractive and easy to see the colours, I found it difficult to tell the difference between the red and orange as they looked so similar.  A major plus from Skoog is the customer service they offer and I needed some help with the software and they were on hand very quickly and were up to speed with solutions with any problem you faced which was refreshing. The bottom line is that this is a very niche product that might be perfect for a small selection of people but with such an affluent price tag I’m not sure who those people would be. Good for a combination of music and physical therapy but for us it won’t be replacing real instruments anytime soon. RRP £199.95

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3 out of 5

Pros

Customisable

Cons

Only works with iPad/Phone, Mac or PC (not compatible with Android and doesn’t work by itself)

Felt a poorly made in places

Colours don’t stand out

Costly