Since No Man’s Sky’s release in 2016, the game’s developers have been adding updates and new features — now there’s multiplayer, base building, and a virtual reality mode, among other things — that have kept the game fresh and kept players coming back. The latest addition is a fully featured audio application that players can use to make their own music for use in their planetary bases. It’s called the ByteBeat Device.
“ByteBeat formulas are made out of simple waveforms that are manipulated through maths — but by default, the device handles all of the mathematical heavy lifting, procedurally generating random presets for you to play with,” developer Hello Games wrote in the patch notes announcing the synthesizer’s addition to the game….