Ocean Swift Introduces Sound Creator Suite - tools for sound-design and instrument development

The Ultimate Sound Designer & Developer Toolkit: Sound Creator Suite Walkthrough | Ocean Swift video upload by Ocean Swift / Faxi Nadu

https://oceanswift.net/product/sound-creator-suite/

"Welcome to a complete walkthrough of the Ocean Swift - Sound Creator Suite. In this video, we take a high-level tour of the entire application, showing you not just what the tools do, but how they work in concert to provide a centralized host environment for virtual instrument developers, sample pack creators, and sound designers.

Whether you are automating hardware sampling, building custom UI components, or formatting vast preset libraries, this suite handles the heavy lifting so you can focus on the creative process.

What we cover in this walkthrough:
Global Settings & The Log Viewer: A look at the suite's foundation, including audio/MIDI routing, Kontakt developer integration , and the built-in, thread-safe Log Viewer capable of maintaining a 10,000-line history.
Audio Batch Processing & Sampling: How to recursively process thousands of audio files , mathematically align loops using MIR technology , and automate external hardware sampling via MIDI and threshold detection.
The Wavetable Ecosystem: A brief look at building wavetables from scratch with the Creator, extracting them from audio files, and converting formats across various software synthesizers.
MIDI & OSC Routing: Bridging the gap between your hardware, digital audio workstations, and modular environments like TouchDesigner.
UI Generation & NKS Workflow: From rendering 3D knobs into sprite sheets to batch-injecting metadata into Native Instruments NKS presets and standard audio samples."

Build Kontakt Instruments Faster: WYSIWYG UI Editor & Prefabs | Ocean Swift Sound Creator Suite

video upload by Ocean Swift / Faxi Nadu

"In this in-depth walkthrough, we dive into the Kontakt Performance View tool, a powerful standalone WYSIWYG editing environment within the Ocean Swift Sound Creator Suite. If you build instruments for Native Instruments Kontakt, this tool bridges the gap between technical JSON editing and intuitive visual design.We cover the entire workflow, from initial setup to complex UI layout, showing you how to design without writing a single line of layout code. What you will learn in this video:Integration & Setup: How to use the suite's settings to launch Kontakt as an isolated child process. Automated NKS Creation: Watch the tool automatically generate the strict NKS folder hierarchy and silently execute a Lua script to create your base .nki and .nkr container files. Live WYSIWYG Editing: Explore the hardware-accelerated preview canvas that provides a near 1:1 visual representation of your UI.Drag & Drop Design: See how to physically drag controls across the canvas , use grab handles for free-resizing , and utilize the alignment menu to perfectly center, top, or bottom-align multiple UI elements instantly.
Advanced Tree & Property Inspector: Learn how to manage the exact structural hierarchy of your UI. We show you how to use Alt+Click to instantly select a Panel and all nested child controls , and how to edit multiple parameters safely using the dynamic property inspector.
Instant UI Prefabs: Discover how to recursively scan your resources folder to drop complex, pre-configured .nckc UI elements directly into your project in seconds.

Grab it here: https://oceanswift.net/product/sound-..."

Press release follows:

"Sound Creator Suite is an all-in-one desktop environment for advanced sound-design and virtual instrument development workflows. Serving as a robust, centralized host, this suite equips producers and developers with an unparalleled arsenal of specialized Ocean Swift tools and utilities.

Learn more and grab it here for €60 instead of €100, 40% off until May 7 2026: https://oceanswift.net/product/sound-creator-suite/

Generate studio-grade UI components - from photo realistic brushed-metal knobs to glowing LED rings with the GUI Knob Maker, and export complex animations as perfectly stitched sprite sheets in seconds. Seamlessly pair this with the Kontakt Performance View tool, an advanced WYSIWYG editing environment that lets you construct complex Kontakt interfaces using a visual, drag-and-drop real-time workflow, entirely eliminating the need to write tedious layout code.

Process audio in bulk, utilize MIR algorithms to surgically align loops, automate your hardware sampling workflows, and generate algorithmic MIDI patterns. Whether you are building and converting custom wavetables, batch-injecting metadata with the NKS preset and sample taggers, monitoring OSC packets, or accessing instant music-calculation tools, the Sound Creator Suite brings an entire development ecosystem into one powerful interface.

Featuring
30+ sound design and instrument development tools
Growing toolkit with an exciting future roadmap – more tools, more assets!
Design, Build, Record, Process, Edit, Manipulate, Monitor
Automate processes and speed up workflows
Innovative, unique, performant and user minded approach"

Fasttracker II (FT2) Plugin

video upload by Blamstrain

"Fasttracker II as a VST3/AU/LV2 plugin. Download at https://github.com/juho/ft2-plugin"

This one is in via

Juho
Blamstrain
www.blamstrain.com

He had the following to say:

"I’ve been working on a VST3/AU/LV2 plugin port of the standalone Fasttracker II (from 1996) originally made by Triton Productions and now maintained by 8bitbubsy. It’s free and available for MacOS (both modern and 10.14+ (Mojave)), Windows and Linux. It is a complete rewrite of bubsy’s version, but is still a fork of his work."

Here's a tutorial series from Ocean View of the stand alone version from 8 years ago:

Fast Tracker 2 Complete Tutorial

video uploads by Ocean View

Ocean Swift announces Black Friday Sales with discounts up to 92% off

"Ocean Swift has announced a big Black Friday sale with discounts up to 92% off.

View the deals and grab everything here: https://oceanswift.net/sales/

The developer quotes:

'We've Hand-picked our top-selling synths and packs and dropped into four simple price tiers. Find the tool you've always wanted and get it for a fraction of the price.'

Offers:

Tier 1: €19.99 - Core Systems.
Tier 2: €9.99 The Anomaly Sector.
Tier 3: €4.99 The Warp Core.
Tier 4: €1.99 The Outer Rim.
Discounts are valid until December 1 2025."

Arturia JUP-8 V - Sound Bank '79

video upload by Polydata

"Drawing from the earliest days of polyphonic synthesizers, Sound Bank ‘79 for the Arturia JUP-8 V finds its inspiration in synthesizer music found in documentaries and library music from the late 70’s and early 80’s.

A bank comprising 40 patches for instant inspiration. The goal was to squeeze as much vintage analog juice out of this plug-in as possible, primarily working within the constraints of the original Roland Jupiter-8. I was honestly blown away by how good this plug-in can sound, and will definitely by using a lot more going forward.

Sound Bank '79 is a series of vintage tones for different synths and plug-ins, so look out for future releases. Recorded with no external processing - what you hear is all from the plug-in.

Link:
polydata.bigcartel.com

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Music HandyMan Toolbox by Ocean Swift

Published on Nov 8, 2018 Ocean Swift

"Music HandyMan Toolbox https://www.oceanswift.net/musichandy...

A swiss army knife toolkit of useful features, musically relevant math functions and references for musicians, sound designers and audio developers

A Set of tools to use in any Project!
– Determine the time, frequency and samples in a measure at a given sample rate
– Quickly view the notes of a musical scale
– Get the frequency of a note in different tunings
– Generate tones
– View reference charts for MIDI CC numbers, frequency spectrum, loudness and compression.
– Store information about a musical project such as BPM, musical scale, tuning and additional user notes such as a project’s to-do list, information for remixers, credits, reminders or anything else.
– The project information includes the option to export to a text file, to include easily accessible information within a project’s folder.

Load it in your favorite DAW as a VST plugin or instrument or use the included
standalone version

This tool is useful for everyone working in Music & Audio:
Solo Producer or Musicians: Takes notes of what you are working and whats left todo! All that is left is to mix the bass and guitar better? Write it down in our notepad so you wont forget anything! Specially helpful for older projects you haven’t opened in months or even years – a quick set of notes will set you on track so much quicker

Solo Producer or Musicians Starting a new project: Starting a new track? Quickly check the musical scale and note you want to use, determine bpm and other relevant information that you can save for later

Useful for Bands: Quickly Pass Notes between your band members – you can quickly export and save these notes as .txt files and share with your members!

Audio Designers: Our Music Calculator, Note to Frequency and relevant math functions can be very helpful if you are working on sound-design! and like stated above you should also use notes to write information about a specific project"

An Interview with Barry Schrader

Hi everyone! As you know Barry Schrader will be giving his farewell concert at CalArts on September 26. The following is the beginning of my interview with him. I opted to post the questions and answers as they come in.  New QAs will get a new post so you do not miss them and they will be added to this post so we have one central post for the full interview. This should make it easier for all of us to consume in our busy lives, and it will allow you to send in any questions that may come to mind during the interview process.  If you have anything you'd like to ask Barry, feel free to send it in to matrixsynth@gmail.com.  This is a rare opportunity for us to get insight on a significant bit of synthesizer history, specifically with early Buchla systems, and I'd like to thank Barry for this opportunity. Thank you Barry!

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Happy 4th of July!!!

The festivities are about to begin in my neck of the woods.   Carbon111 and his lovely wife Laura are about to head over for some classic 4th of July BBQ sandwiches, homemade baked beans and potato salad, and firework viewing off our deck.   Pictured above is our view of the bluffs and the Pacific Ocean in the background.   Last year the fireworks on the beach ran for three hours straight as far as the eye could see up and down the coast. Absolutely insane.  I should have brought my Minitaur to blare some deep bass filter sweeps during the show! Oh well, next year.  Have a fun and safe 4th everyone!  Do NOT BURN your synths!