No Man’s Sky Holiday Update Includes Functional Music Creator

A new update arrived for No Man’s Sky today, and with it included the introduction of a fully-functional music creation application called the ByteBeat Device.

A part of the base building system, players can now create a ByteBeat Device in their base, connect it to a power source, and begin to play music throughout the area via the new in-game synthesizer, which allows players to set tempo, octave, keys, melodies, drums, and other sounds to craft music.

“Base building is a big part of what people spend their time doing in our game, and a frequent request is for the ability to add sounds and music to their construction,” Hello Games wrote when announcing the new addition on their official blog. “Our team always likes a creative challenge, and audio is one of our big passions. Over the last few weeks one of our coders got obsessed with making an audio creation tool for the community, we were so excited about it we thought it’d be a nice surprise to release it.”