Dystopia Diary

Dystopia Diary offers a sound platform with a versatile palette of sounds ranging from eerie shortwave radio transmissions to haunting synthesized atmospheres, industrial clatter, and military signals.

With six customizable layers, it empowers composers and sound designers to craft tension, chaos, and beauty through scenes of evolving ambiences, tonal dissonance, and deeply textured soundscapes.

Featuring non-encoded samples, Dystopia Diary seamlessly blends as an instrument and a library, giving you the freedom to use its content anywhere, even outside Kontakt.

Fully optimized for NKS2, this instrument delivers an intuitive and immersive experience.

Dystopia Diary is fully compatible with the free Kontakt Player.

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Dystopia Diary

Cinematic Atmospheric Sonic Playground

Dystopia Diary Main Features

Sculpt immersive worlds of sound

Six layers of customizable textures let you build tension, chaos, and beauty. Shape evolving ambiences, create tonal dissonance, or unleash a wall of sound.

An instrument and a sample library

1900 samples that you can use anywhere. Use the library of samples anywhere you want. The samples are not encoded and are available in the Kontakt samples browser and in your file system, the content is yours to use freely, the possibilities are endless.

Free Kontakt Player Compatibility

Dystopia Diary is fully compatible with the free Kontakt Player, ensuring easy installation and accessibility for all producers. Simply activate, download and install via Native Access to start creating with this versatile instrument.

Integrated experience with NKS2 Kontrol Mk3 keyboards

Every single parameter found on the interface of Dystopia Diary is displayed in the Kontrol MK3 hardware, giving you unprecedented and detailed control over the instrument. 

Next Level NKS2

Dystopia Diary showcases seamless NKS2 implementation, offering intuitive control, visual feedback, and a streamlined workflow. Perfect for producers looking for a deeply integrated experience with Kontrol Mk3 keyboards.

Hundreds of Inspiring Snapshots

Dive into a world of sound with hundreds of meticulously crafted snapshots. Each snapshot is a starting point for a scene or story, inviting you to tweak and explore. What story will you tell?

Integrate your content

Load in your own sounds with a simple drag-and-drop.

Powerful Filters and Effects Section

Dual filters. Creative mangling and modulation. Endless reverb and delay. Shape and enhance your sounds with precision. 

Harness the latest generation of Kontakt effects to shape your sound. Each effect offers a wide selection of mini presets, enabling you to effortlessly explore and apply diverse sonic textures.

From the battlefield to the wasteland

Dive into haunting military signals, unsettling drones, and the whispers of lost transmissions – where the sounds of life meet cinematic soul.

Extensive selection of sound categories

The samples in Dystopia Diary were meticulously collected, curated, and edited by Ocean Swift Synthesis over more than 20 years. While most content is entirely original, a few sounds began as public domain sources, each heavily processed and reimagined. Every sample has been crafted to inspire and immerse, offering a diverse range of sonic possibilities.

  • Carpets: Long, evolving soundscapes perfect for creating backdrops and setting a scene.
  • Industry: The grind and hum of construction, machinery, generators, and industrial drones.
  • Military: Sounds of planes, drones, tanks, alarms, UAVs, and military convoys bring tension and intensity.
  • Noise: Pure and atmospheric noise sources, both synthesized and sampled, drawing inspiration from Porphyra Hybrid and expanded with additional content.
  • Outside: A spectrum of environmental sounds, from nature to urban ambiences—birds, beaches, rain, church bells, lawnmowers, and more.
  • Chatter: Captured shortwave radio transmissions, police and air traffic scanners, old answering machines, and public domain government recordings—textural and evocative.
  • Twilight: Shortwave radio weirdness—surreal, mysterious, and perfect for stepping into the sonic unknown.
  • Transport: The hustle of airports, trains, cars, buses, and traffic-related soundscapes.
  • Tune: Playable drones and tuned atmospheres crafted from Ocean Swift’s own synth creations, including Scope DSP platform patches and VSTs like Aeolian Meditation and Polyphenon.
  • Untune: Untuned atmospheres with tonal richness but no defined pitch, synthesized or sampled from the same sources as the Tuned category.
  • Elmooht: Rare tracks from Elmooht, an Ocean Swift founder’s experimental ambient alias, transformed into eerie, melancholic soundscapes and deep drones.
  • Porphyra: Factory patches of the Porphyra Hybrid synthesizer were recorded and processed into rich tones.
  • User: An empty menu for your custom sounds, enabling seamless integration of your own content.

Each category brings unique textures and tones, allowing you to sculpt immersive worlds of sound. Whether you’re creating atmospheric tension or cinematic beauty, Dystopia Diary is your ultimate toolkit.

Compatible with your favorite engines

The over 1900 samples in Dystopia Diary open sound library are seamlessly looped, ready to be used in your sound design, game design endeavors and with will all your favorite tools.

New 1.1 Update

The cinematic atmospheric sonic playground Dystopia Diary has been updated to version 1.1 which brings a number of new features, 150 additional presets, 140 new samples and a couple of bug fixes.

Ocean Swift invites you to embark on a journey of exploration through landscapes of sonic scenery. This is more than an instrument or a tool… It’s a journey. A weapon for composers. A canvas for sound designers. A sound installation. A game. Dark. Relentless. Raw. Your soundtrack to dystopia.

An instrument forged in the shadows of a world on the brink… Are you ready to harness the noise?

Media

Sound Design

Layering examples & workflow
Soothing Planet - Layering Examples
Warfare Scene - Layering Examples
52min Cinematic Soundscapes Demonstration

Ambient & Musical Demos

Unleash the musical potential of Dystopia Diary
Playable snapshots - For ambient music and cinematic compositions
Using Dystopia Diary in a Ambient Electronica Track

Sound Design

More soundscape examples

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From the eerie crackle of shortwave radio transmissions…
To the haunting echoes of synthesized atmospheres…
Step into a sonic landscape where tension and mystery collide.
Amid the roar of factories, the grind of machinery, and the thunder of military might…

Why Ocean Swift Kontakt libraries?
Your purchase is truly yours:

Enjoy a straightforward installation process with no unnecessary complications or activation restrictions. Simply buy a serial number, activate it in Native Access, and you can use our instruments on multiple computers without any limitations. Easy install, no nonsense, no limited activation gimmicks, no hassle.

Open Libraries:

The samples and wavetables utilized in our Kontakt instruments are available for use across various platforms, including digital audio workstations (DAWs), other synthesizers, and audio processing tools. Feel free to integrate these resources into your creative projects to enhance your sound design and music production.

Runs on the Free Kontakt Player:

Another advantage of using our Kontakt Instruments installed via Native Access is that you can use them with Free Kontakt Player, you don’t even need to own Kontakt 8.

Content rich updates:
Each update delivers significant amount of content, from snapshots, to new filters, effects or even brand new features.
Next level NKS2:

Innovative approaches to NKS2. Every single parameter found on the interfaces of our instruments are displayed in the Kontrol MK3 hardware, giving you unprecedented and detailed control – Offering complex but intuitive control, visual feedback, and a streamlined workflow. 

Simple to understand UI:
Comprehensive and intuitive user interfaces that empower you with complete control over the instrument while encouraging exploration and experimentation.
Latest Generation of Kontakt Effects:

Our instruments feature an impressive array of cutting-edge effects within the Kontakt engine. Notably, we offer the exceptional Replika delay, renowned for its rich sound quality, alongside the versatile Raum reverb, designed to enhance your creative projects.

Advanced scripting and Innovative features:

We are committed to introducing cutting-edge advancements in the realm of Kontakt instruments. Our goal is to continually enhance the user experience by integrating novel functionalities and sophisticated scripting techniques that push the boundaries of creativity and performance.

Built with our vision - Improved with your feedback

We greatly value your feedback and are eager to hear about your experiences and any new ideas you may have. Your input is invaluable to us as we strive to enhance our instruments and better serve our community. 

Thank you for being a part of our journey!

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