Ocean Swift Introduces Dev Ocean Modular Synthesis & Sound Design Environment


Ocean Swift has introduced DevOcean Modular – a modern modular synthesis and sound design platform that offers a collection of 145 modules.

Modules include Wavetable and FM voices, additive banks, supersaws, physically-modeled strings, granular clouds, studio-grade reverbs and delays, nine families of filters, and some unique sources, like shortwave radio, live market data and a game controller modulation rig.

Every patch reads at a glance: cables pulse with the sound moving through them and shift color between mono and poly as you wire.

Features:

  • Over 145 modules, thousands of patches, presets and snapshots.
  • Sound quality that stands with anything on the market.
  • Modules holding entire families – nine filter designs, thirteen effects, six dynamics processors and more.
  • Modules that exist nowhere else.
  • MaYa – a modular AI agent that patches alongside you.
  • Live DSP and MIDI scripting.
  • Standalone, with a VST3/AU bridge into your DAW.
  • A complex system that stays inviting.
  • Thousands of patches, presets and snapshots.

Patch Example:

Synth Tutorial Video:

Dev Ocean Modular is available now for  €129.99, 35% off €199 MSRP until September 1 2026. A full demo version (save-disabled) is also available.

 

New Modular FX Rack, Nodes, For Mac + Windows


Okay Synthesizer has introduced Nodes, a new modular effects environment for Mac and  Windows.

A Linux version is also planned.

Nodes is built around three concepts:

  • Audio FX – The thing that actually changes your sound. Pretty straightforward… Reverb, delay, EQ, distortion, phasers, chorus, etc. You have countless choices of FX.
  • Modulation – This turns knobs for you – go crazy style on the effects, and push them way beyond their limits.
  • Racks – Once you have a bunch of audio FX and modulation going, you combine them into complete effects Racks.

Nodes has 57 nodes modules, including  FX, Modulators and I/O. They plan to expand this further.

Nodes is available now with an ‘early access’ price of $50 USD (normally $100).

 

Vintage Synth Review: The Roland JP-8000 ‘Trance Machine’


Synthesist Alex Ball – in his latest video – takes an in-depth look at the Roland JP-8000, a vintage synthesizer from 1996 that was a mainstay of class trance music.

Topics covered:

0:00 Intro
1:17 History
4:18 Demo 1:
5:22 What is the JP-8000?
11:13 Demo 2:
12:22 The Story of the Prototype
15:59 Demo 3:
17:05 The Usual Suspects
18:48 Patron Outro Jam

Have you used the Roland JP-8000? Check out the video and share your thoughts on it in the comments!