Fragment is a collaborative cross-platform audiovisual live coding environment with pixels based real-time image-synth approach to sound synthesis, 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, subtractive and PM synthesis is also supported, 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 software / sound design tool.

Many videos of most features are available on the official YouTube channel

If you have any questions or require help, a documentation and a discussion board is available.

• Additive, spectral, granular, subtractive, PM synthesizer powered by WebAudio/wavetable (additive only) OR Fragment Audio Server (additive, granular etc.)
• Complete audio/visuals live coding environment with JIT compilation of shader code
• Real-time, collaborative app.
• Stereophonic or monaural
• Polyphonic
• Multitimbral
• 32-bit float images data (WebGL 2 only)
• Multi-output, configurable audio channels per slices
• Shader inputs (webcam, images, videos with audio analysis, audio files analysis, drawing over textures...)
• MIDI in with Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (MPE) support
• OSC in/out
• Spectral recording with export and re-import as a texture / WAV export (additive synthesis)
• Sessions based without authentifications, able to run locally
• Distributed sound synthesis, multi-machines/multi-core support (Audio Server with fas_relay)
• Free, cross-platform, open-source software (Simplified BSD License)

31/12/2017  Subtractive/PM synthesis, audio server update etc. (1.0.3)

19/11/2017  MPE support, enhanced granular synthesis (1.0.2)

01/11/2017  Minor bug fixes update (1.0.1)

 Instructions to install the .deb package from a terminal (Ubuntu, Debian etc.)

• sudo dpkg -i fragment_1.0.3_amd64.deb
• sudo apt-get -f install
• launch with fas_launcher command or through the app. menu of your system
• more details about the launcher

 Windows instructions

• unzip somewhere
• launch fas_launcher.exe
• more details about the launcher

• Web. browser such as Chromium (recommended), Opera, Safari or Firefox (MIDI is not supported by Firefox at the moment)
• Mid-range GPU, Fragment was made and regularly used with a GeForce GTX 970
• Mid-range multi-core CPU, a beefy CPU may be needed for advanced features
• A MIDI device such as a MIDI keyboard/controller is recommended