#HTE

Sometimes you just have to admit that, yes, you’re not quite sure what a thing is, or what it does, but you know — just instinctively know — that you love how it looks. So it is with 2020, a Japanese beat machine app that’s being funded on Kickstarter, and that has one of the most beautiful and brilliant looking interfaces we’ve seen in a while. So much so, that its creators — Japanese music group DUB-Russell — recommend that you use the OS X-only software on devices with Retina displays. Presumably, because using it with any lower resolution screen drives you insane as you try to distinguish between the amp and pitch envelopes for one of your six synth sounds.

DUB-Russell’s Yotaro Shuto indicates that this was kind of the idea in his…

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http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/15/11232104/2020-music-beat-machine-app