About

Fragment is a real-time audiovisual live coding environment, an unique combination of a web-based interface / accelerated graphics canvas with an oscillator-bank / filter-bank / spectral synthesizer.

Its versatility apply to a broad range of applications such as :

  • sound design
  • computer art of any kinds
  • live performance involving sounds & visuals
  • learning and teaching computer graphics / sound synthesis
  • etc.

Fragment has many features making it a bliss to produce any kind of sounds / visuals, it is aimed at artists seeking a creative environment with few limitations to experiment with, a programmable noise-of-all-kinds software.

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

For any questions, a message board is available here

All software is free of charge, and distributed according to free software/open source principles and licenses.

Requirement

  • Web. browser such as Chromium (recommended), Safari or Firefox
    • MIDI is not supported by Firefox / Safari at the moment
  • Mid-range GPU
    • Fragment was developed with a GeForce GTX 970
  • Mid-range multi-core CPU
  • Not necessary but a MIDI device such as a MIDI keyboard is recommended

Note : A high amount of memory is needed to support high number of instruments and use many audio samples / distributed sound synthesis.