Yotaro Shuto is half of the duo DUB-Russell, and 2020 looks and feels like a toybox built by someone who makes electronic music live. That retina-searing main screen is just full of rhythm-making bits. (There are other color themes available, pictured.) You can rewire it on the fly. You can slice up samples. You can synthesize, record. And like the work of developers like Giorgio Sancristoforo, this forgoes the DAW-and-plugin paradigm for a standalone (but syncable) application. Or as the developer puts it, “just imagine a single fragment that was forcibly torn apart by combining German DAW software, Swedish hardware beat machine, and a cable-tangled modular synthesizer system.”

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