Fragment

Fragment is a real-time collaborative cross-platform audiovisual live coding environment with pixels based image-synth approach to sound synthesis, the sound synthesis is powered by pixels data produced on the graphics card by code.

Fragment can be thought of as an oscillator-bank and filter-bank synthesizer driven by bitmap data.

Fragment is able to produce high-quality fast additive and granular synthesis simultaneously with re-synthesis support, it has many features making it a bliss to produce any kind of sounds or visuals and is aimed at artists seeking a creative environment with few limitations to experiment with, a programmable noise-of-all-kinds machine.

Fragment ship with:

• Powerful asynchronous/synchronous granular and additive/spectral synthesis engine.
• Additional instruments : subtractive, phase modulation, physical modelling, wavetable, bandpass, modal, formant, string synthesis...

• New instruments and effects can be created live through the Faust language.

• Complete reactive audiovisual live coding environment with GLSL and Processing.js support.
• Distributed sound synthesis, multi-machines/multi-core support.
• Stereophonic.
• Polyphonic (determined by GPU capabilities).
• Multitimbral.
• 32-bit float images data; provide high dynamic range.
• Multi-output, ASIO / JACK support, virtual channels with over 30 stereo effects.
• Shader inputs (webcam, mic, scripts, images, desktop capture, videos with audio analysis, audio files analysis, drawing over textures...).
• OSC IN/OUT.
• Spectral recording feature of live performances with blend modes, export as PNG and import back feature, export as WAV file (additive only).
• MIDI IN support with hot plugging of MIDI devices.
• MIDI Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression support (MPE).
• MIDI OUT with JavaScript scripting.
• Sessions based collaborative features without authentications, collaborate with your friends easily.
• Complete documentation.
• One of the most powerful real-time image-synth approach on the market.
• And more...

Fragment audio server support 32-bit float signal path, multiple outputs, the sampling rate is only limited by your drivers.

Fragment client require a web browser with full support of ECMAScript 5, CSS3, WebAudio and WebGL 2, a dual core CPU with high clock speed is recommended and moderate amount of RAM.

Fragment require a good medium-end GPU, it was developed with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 GPU.