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NEXTALE Audio GranularBreaker: Granular synthesis meets brick-breaker physics

September 29

NEXTALE Audio has recently released a virtual instrument that plays a granular synthesizer through a brick-breaker game: balls bounce through a user-designed grid of bricks, and every collision fires…

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