Fragment - Collaborative Spectral/Granular/Subtractive/PM Synthesizer

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Onirom
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Re: Fragment - Collaborative Spectral/Granular/Subtractive/PM Synthesizer

Post by Onirom »

Hello,

after more than three years a major update to Fragment has been released.

https://www.fsynth.com

Fragment 2.0.0 feature some major architectural work for the audio server which make it more stable, better accessibility, fixes and lots of new features for both client and audio server. Some features were also removed such as Web audio support on the client which has been dropped to solely focus on the audio server.

Also, the audio server is now distributed as an AppImage for Linux so this should work easily on any distributions ! Some tools are also distributed on the homepage.

A complete changelog is out of scope as there is huge amount of changes but here is a quick list of the major changes :
  • ASIO / JACK support
  • New instruments : spectral, physical modelling, wavetable, bandpass, modal, formant, string synthesis, modulation...
  • Improved instruments : subtractive, granular, phase modulation
  • Virtual channels with over 30 stereo effects included
  • Faust support to create custom instruments and effects by writing .dsp files
  • Desktop capture support
  • Processing.js sketchs support
  • Microphone capture
  • Per partial effect slot for additive synthesis (bitcrush, noise) and per voice filtering for subtractive synthesis with one multi mode filter
  • Client : MIDI out support with Javascript scripting
  • Client : Most imported audio is converted as a sonogram using a gabor wavelet transform (much better frequency / time resolution than before)
  • Client : Workspace pane with many examples and local user library (file which is shared between sessions)
  • Audio Server : huge stability improvement along with many fixes and parameters boundary checks (improvement in overall audio quality)
  • Audio Server : ARM64 support (but not yet available as a binary package)
  • Fragment File Server allow to completely manage the audio server files through the client (upload, deletion, download...)
  • Many other fixes and various minor features
Some videos will be released soon to show the updated version with all instruments :)
Onirom
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Re: Fragment - Collaborative Spectral/Granular/Subtractive/PM Synthesizer

Post by Onirom »

Here is a video of most Fragment 2.0 examples (audio / graphics) with special focus on desktop capture feature which allow to easily use any software as sound synthesis source from live capture of screen / browser window / tab without much code.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tm6TkQdTYPk
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