Reactive Pixels: small, exact software

Small, exact software. Mostly for the Mac.

3 products  /  0 resampling  /  1 horn
Current rangeRPXL-001 to 003

EKO EKO EKO

RPXL-001 / No resampling. We checked.

A native Mac player for Navidrome, Subsonic and local files. It plays each track at its own sample rate and copies the samples to your DAC untouched. When it cannot, the seal on screen says so.

ResamplingNone
EngineRust
LicenceMIT
BuildUniversal, signed, notarized
See EKO Source

SparkleBIOS SparkleBIOS

RPXL-002 / One horn. Not hot-swappable.

A 1995 POST screen for your terminal that is secretly a health check. Every new tab boots. Every line on it is true of your machine, apart from the horn.

Network calls0
Horns1
Bands7
Mascots8
LicenceMIT or Apache-2.0
Statusv0.1.1. Out now.
brew install reactivepixels/tap/sparklebios
See SparkleBIOS Source
A terminal booting SparkleBIOS: a pixel unicorn, a memory count, the disk, shell and horn detected one by one, then a health check

GrooveUnit GrooveUnit GrooveUnit

RPXL-003 / Lives in the menu bar. Pays no rent.

A lo-fi companion that lives in your Mac menu bar and moves in time with whatever your Mac is actually playing, live and on-device. Beats to relax, study and work to, with a face.

ProcessingOn-device
SubscriptionsNone
RequiresmacOS 14 or later
StatusComing soon
Preview GrooveUnit
GrooveUnit that's the pocket.