Creative tools for sound, visuals, interaction, and narrative — built from real deadlines, not hypotheticals. Disco Stacker, Disco Bed (coming soon), Disco Raquet, AV Tool Kit, and whatever comes next. No dependencies. No gatekeeping. Just open it and make something.
For journalists, designers, producers, and anyone else who'd rather be making than configuring. Each tool does the job — then gets out of the way.
Interactive scroll-driven storytelling where accuracy, authenticity, and factual integrity sit alongside creativity — not against it. 30+ modules from animated timelines and before/after sliders to document highlighters and fact-check overlays. Plan with Story Planner, build with the visual editor, combine with Stack Builder, and export as a single embed that works inside any CMS — even the restrictive ones.
Video, motion, and visual production utilities for journalists and designers — After Effects automation scripts, browser-based editing helpers, and creative workflow tools. Built for the same people who need the other two.
A modular audio workstation for producers who think in signal chains. At its core sits the AS-ARENT, a sampler inspired by the legendary Ensoniq ASR-10 — the machine behind golden-era hip-hop, trip-hop, and some of the most iconic sample flips ever committed to tape. Load any source, shape it with multi-mode resonant filters, pitch it across the keyboard, and sequence it from the built-in step sequencer with per-step velocity, swing, and zone routing.
Beyond the sampler: a Moog-style ladder filter synth, a Juno-inspired polysynth, an arpeggiator with programmable patterns, and a cinematic pad engine with macro-driven presets. Everything routes through an eight-channel mixer with four submix buses, per-channel and per-bus compression, dual send effects — plate reverb and dub delay — SSL-modeled master bus compression, and analog tape saturation on the output stage. A global LFO engine can modulate any parameter across the entire signal chain.
Record your session and export individual stems for every channel, bus, and the master — ready to drop straight into your DAW. One self-contained application, zero plugin dependencies, zero latency compromises.
Disco Gadgets started in a newsroom — 8+ years of deadlines, investigations, and stories that always needed more. Visual journalism and motion design for a major news organization meant creating the tools when the tools didn't exist. That habit stuck.
Everything here was born because something was too expensive, too complex, or required a team nobody had. The mission hasn't changed: democratize the craft.
Want to use these in your newsroom? Got an idea for something we should build? Just want to talk shop? We're into it.