Naught
Naught AUDIO PLAYER
NAUGHTAUDIO.COM · V1.0.0

Naught Audio Player

Signal from the black. Exclusive path. Fixed-point signature. Readahead that doesn’t flinch. Drop a file into the chamber — the lattice wakes when the music does.

Enter the Reliquary Desktop build
Naught Skin
Look only · desktop default is Luxury Warm
Free personal use CosmoNaught Cyan Browser ≈ Concert path
THE ENGINE

Cold exterior.
Living mathematics inside. Warm exterior.
Living mathematics inside.

Built for long exclusive soaks and a wet path that arrives at sample zero — not after the silence of a staggered boot.

WASAPI Exclusive

Desktop Concert path owns the DAC for low-latency, native-rate playback when the hardware allows.

RT-safe readahead

Custom buffering: large chunks, multi-fill, deep exclusive cushion — decode never under the audio lock.

Kernel + IR space

Early FIR energy plus long IR and late FDN on the desktop signature path — space without the grain of shortcuts.

Q30 fixed-point

Integer wet bus with wide accumulate — AVX when present. Designed sound, not float-and-hope.

Dual-transport crossfade

Pro natural advance: next leg ready early, equal-power dry blend, wet soft rebuild. Default 0.3s.

Signature color stack

Tape · Warmth · Console · Horn · Kernel · Limiter · Space — Concert defaults so the machine sounds like itself from Play.

LOAD

Demo on deck.
Your files anytime.

Naught Drift loads into the Reliquary playlist on arrival. Press Play if the browser blocked autoplay — or hit Demo anytime to bring it back. Drop your own audio to replace the demo and arm the lattice with your signal.

Drop audio or a folder

WAV · FLAC · MP3 · AIFF · OGG · M4A / AAC — multi-file playlist (clears demo when you load)

THE CHAMBER
Naught Audio PlayerChamber idle — waiting for signal
No file
BROWSER · CONCERT-MAPPED
NAUGHT LATTICE
IDLE BREATH
0:000:00
MASTER
PLAYLIST
0 tracks
  • Starting demo…
Naught Multiband Tape
TAPE
Naught Warmth · Soft Clip
SOFT CLIP
Naught Console · Tone Color
CONSOLE
Naught Horn · Presence Lift
HORN
Naught Kernel · Early FIR
KERNEL
Naught Limiter
LIMITER
Naught Space · IR
SPACE
LOADED IR York Minster (loading…)

Default IR: York Minster · courtesy of the OpenAIR Library (University of York · free-use attribution)

TECHNICAL

What ships on the desktop

Authoritative inventory for Naught Audio Player . The Reliquary above is a Concert-mapped browser approximation.

BinaryNaughtAudioPlayer.exe · Windows x64 · JUCE 7
DeviceWASAPI Exclusive (Concert default) · Shared fallback · openWasapiOutput rebuild on mode change
Buffer / ups2048 samples default · upsample x2 ship (UI Off…x16)
BufferingVoidBufferingAudioSource · 32k chunks · RT ring never decodes under lock · ~5s exclusive cushion @ ≥88.2k
SignatureQ30 wet path from block 0 · VoidKernel ON · multiband tape · Console · Horn · limiter · soft-clip dry
SpaceEarly kernel / partitioned convolution · 8-line FDN · spatial / air stack (desktop)
TransportPro dual-transport crossfade natural advance · gapless micro-seam not ship auto-advance
ThreadingMMCSS Pro Audio · exclusive affinity 2–5 · readahead 0,1,6,7 · Auto prefers Ryzen 2–7
FormatsWAV FLAC MP3 AIFF OGG M4A/AAC WMA OPUS · IR WAV/FLAC/AIFF-class
LicenseFree personal use (EULA) · Commercial:

Exclusive ON silences other apps on that device until Shared or quit. Toggling Exclusive stops playback by design — press Play after the billboard says ready. Quit releases the device (closeAudioDevice).

DESKTOP

Naught Audio Player

Full Exclusive path, Q30 signature stack, dual-transport crossfade, and RT-safe readahead. Get the latest Windows build from the official releases repo.

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Commercial licensing: