Pixel-Powered Granular Synth

US Fragment is a collaborative cross-platform audiovisual live coding environment for Windows and Linux 09/10/17

Its makers describe Fragment as a collaborative cross-platform audiovisual live coding environment with pixels based real-time image-synth approach to sound synthesis.

A spokeperson told us, "The sound synthesis is powered by pixels data produced on the graphics card by live GLSL code, everything is based on pixels! 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 monster."

Features

Complete additive, spectral, granular synthesizer powered by WebAudio oscillators, a wavetable OR Fragment Audio Server
Complete audio/visuals live coding environment with JIT compilation of shader code
Real-time, collaborative app.
Distributed sound synthesis, multi-machines/multi-core support (Audio Server with fas_relay)
Stereophonic or monaural
Polyphonic
Multitimbral
32-bit float images data (WebGL 2 only)
Multi-output channels per slice
Shader inputs (webcam, images, videos with audio analysis, audio files analysis, drawing over textures...)
MIDI in
OSC in/out
Spectral recording with export and re-import as a texture
Audio synthesis can be done on a dedicated computer on the network
Per-sessions discussion system
Sessions based, no authentifications, ability to run locally