Play songs in seconds with Melo-D. Follow the lights, play on Rainbow strings, hum a melody, and turn songs and ideas into music.
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Meet Melo-D: the guitar anyone can play and everyone can create with.
Powered by AI technology from the team behind Tunee AI, Melo-D builds on years of experience in AI music creation, helping users turn ideas into songs faster and more intuitively.
Built with light-guided playing, tactile Rainbow strings, AI music tools, and a built-in touchscreen, Melo-D brings playing and creating together in one instrument. You can follow the lights, touch the strings, and start making music in a way that feels simple, visual, and fun from the very first moment.
Zero music theory needed. Just pick up Melo-D, follow the lights, and hear yourself play.
The fretboard shows exactly where your fingers go, while the screen helps you follow the rhythm. Your hands move with the guide, the strings respond, and the song starts to come together.
Chords feel easier too. With one-touch chords, you can play fuller sounds without memorizing shapes or stretching your fingers before you’re ready.
And as you play, real-time scoring helps you see your progress, so every session feels more like a win than a lesson.
Heard a song you love? You’ll be playing it in minutes.
Melo-D’s AI Tab upload functionality allows to break songs down into fingerstyle tabs or chord charts in under 3 minutes, then maps it to the guitar with on-screen guidance and light-up strings.
So instead of reading sheet music, searching for tutorials, or waiting until you “know enough,” you can follow the lights and start playing.
AI Jam helps you create a track right on Melo-D, without opening a studio app or knowing how to produce music.
You can choose from 10 different tones, such as electric guitar, acoustic guitar, etc, explore styles like Rock, Pop, R&B, K-Pop, Hip-Hop, Blues, and more, then set the mood with vibes like Lo-Fi, Vintage, Modern, Y2K, or Prog.
Melo-D gives you instant riff previews, so you can hear different ideas and choose what feels right. Once you’re ready, AI Jam builds it into an original track you can play along with using the light-up fretboard.
It feels less like “making music from scratch” and more like starting a jam session.
Melo-D doesn’t turn playing into button tapping.
Its proprietary Rainbow Strings give you a more hands-on, tactile way to play. You can strum rhythms, pick single notes, and play melodies with natural hand movement, so the experience feels closer to holding and playing an instrument.
The color-coded design still helps you follow along more easily, but the real magic is how it feels in your hands: more expressive, more physical, and more connected to the music.
That melody in your head? It’s about to become a guitar solo.
You know the one: the melody you’ve been humming for weeks. Hum it into the Melo-D app. In seconds, it becomes a full guitar solo, arranged and synced to your instrument.
Then play it back on Melo-D with light-guided support, so the idea doesn’t just stay in your head. It becomes something you can hear, follow, and play.
Put your phone aside and stay fully in the moment while you play.
Melo-D has a built-in 2.4-inch LCD touchscreen integrated directly into the guitar, making the core playing experience fully standalone. You don’t need to connect a smartphone or open an external app to access the main features.
Use the screen to follow real-time visual guidance, switch modes easily, and view lyrics and chords right where you’re playing.
So whether you’re learning a song, following the lights, or creating with AI, everything stays on the guitar and nothing pulls you out of the music.
Practice doesn’t have to feel like homework.
Melo-D’s Guitar Hero-inspired Rhythm Game Mode turns guitar playing into an interactive rhythm experience. The fretboard lights up to show exactly where to place your fingers, while the screen shows when to play. Just follow the guide, stay with the rhythm, and keep building confidence as you play.
Melo-D is a chord player — press a chord pad with your left hand, tap the pickpad or strum the strings with your right hand, and instantly play chord progressions. 7 core chords to start — enough for hundreds of songs. One tap unlocks the full 21-chord advanced layout.
Default 7-key chord mode covers common chords; switch to 21-key chord mode for more options, with every pad independently mappable. 10 built-in instrument tones + 160+ rhythm patterns. You will get free updates continuously.
Melo-D is built to play on its own, but the app gives you more room to explore.
Use the Melo-D Guitar app to browse songs, manage your music library, access our proprietary TemPolor AI Music tools, save your creations, and keep your guitar updated with new features, tones, rhythms, and improvements.
It keeps your full music experience connected, so you can discover what to play, organize what you create, and get more out of Melo-D over time.
Your guitar stays simple. Your creative world keeps growing.
Melo-D is made to go with you.
With one motion, its patented folding design brings it down to just 18.4 inches / 46.74 cm, small enough to fit in a backpack and easy to carry without a bulky guitar case.That means you can play in more places, not just at home. Take it to a friend’s place, a park, a rooftop, a weekend trip, or anywhere you feel like making music.
When inspiration shows up, your guitar can show up too.
Play with clear highs, deep bass, and full sound right from the guitar.
Melo-D’s built-in audio system combines a dedicated tweeter and bass speaker with 20W maximum output, plus a large 0.91L acoustic chamber that helps deliver a fuller, warmer tone than typical digital speakers.
Plug in headphones for silent practice. Connect a mic for sing-along sessions. Record directly to your phone via USB-C OTG.
We’re TemPolor: a cross-disciplinary team of music builders, AI engineers, hardware designers, indie musicians, producers, and researchers, led by founder Jason Jia, AI lead Blank Gong, and hardware lead Li Tian.
We work together on one big idea: making music easier to start, easier to create, and more fun to play.
We’re also the team behind Tunee AI, an AI music platform that helps people turn ideas into songs and explore music creation in a faster, more intuitive way.
In 2019, we launched a music app for amateur musicians that grew to 10M monthly users and helped generate 12M+ songs. In 2024, we built our Gen AI music model — and in 2025, we launched Tunee AI. That journey gave us a strong foundation in AI-generated music, user-friendly creation tools, and music playing systems before bringing the technology into a physical instrument.
After years of building music tools, we kept coming back to one feeling: music shouldn’t stay trapped on a screen. It should be something you hold, touch, hear, and feel in your hands.
So we brought our experience in color-based learning, AI music generation, artificial intelligence, hardware design, and Tunee AI into one instrument.
That’s Melo-D: a guitar that lights up, listens, creates, and helps you finally play.
