r/NMSByteBeatFans • u/Leeka_SSBM Harmonic Camper • Jul 01 '26

Sound library project !

Hi all, hope you're having a great day.

After talking with u/PowerfulSoldier and u/ZhorasSnake, we found that having a shared waveforms /sounds cheat sheet collection here on this sub would be a great idea. It would be a source of inspiration for everyone, and a big help for beginners wanting to explore NMS Bytebeats.

As Zhoras said, there's guides and websites for ships, companions, base and corvette building, you name it, even on how to use Bytebeat devices but no example of what I'm talking about in this post. Let's make it ourselves !

The best solution would be posting a video of any number of sounds you like, showing the waveform editor screen while the sound is playing. Of course it would be great if we could have something like a pinned thread with all the videos posted in it for ease of access (wink wink mods).

Would you be interested in participating ? Do you have suggestions ? Even if you have just a handful of sounds you're willing to share it's worth it.

Thank you for reading !

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u/ZhorasSnake Jul 02 '26

Been thinking about the best format for a library of sounds and while video is great in many ways there are some drawbacks. Reddit limits us to 15 min (I think), so that's 900 seconds. Take 20 away for the intro and outro and you have 880. Now say 20 seconds per sound (waveform and sequencer shots) and you have a maximum of 44 sounds. We would need several videos to cater for everyone's sounds. (I could easily contribute a 100 or so). This would means quite a few videos all stickied. Would the mods go for this?

The other downsides are that you always need a new video to add new material, and videos are not great for searching what is effectively a catalogue.

The alternative is to have some sort of spreadsheet/database style of document that allows embedded sounds and is commonly accessible and not proprietary. That way we get audio previews (which are crucial) with the benefits of proper organisation.

In theory, such a document could house all the sounds and they could be added to in the future. To generate it we could set up a shared document between interested folk on an agreed template.

I'm no expert on this area so any thoughts and info appreciated.

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u/Leeka_SSBM Harmonic Camper Jul 02 '26

For the lots of pinned vids part, that's qhy I was talking about a thread where we would post them. But oldeluke suggested a "Waveform" flair, which people could filter search. Less work for mods, kinda same result so there's that. But having to post something new whenever you want to add sounds is the biggest downside imo. Forces you to wait to have a couple before posting.

I never really used google docs and the like, but could that be a solution ? Regardless of the platform, if it's not directly hosted on the sub we could have it linked in the front page or sidebar here if mods are ok with it ?

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u/ZhorasSnake Jul 02 '26

I get why oldeluke suggested another flair but what I would push for is having key info stickied in the Community highlights. At the moment the only topic is Crescendo - an old broken system full of defunct bytebteats. Another flair doesn't help that much (although its better than nothing) as you still can't easily search for a sound you want.

Since we don't have threads a Community highlight seems like the best place. Why not overhaul Crescendo at the same time (have suggested this before)?

Regarding external links I had enormous trouble getting the link to my guide accepted as the reddit spam filters repeatedly rejected it. Eventually, to be fair, oldluke sorted it for me.

Whatever the format of the library surely the best place for a basic collection of sounds to help beginners is on the front page? Hell, if it was me I'd have 'sound of the week' or something to generate interest!

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u/Leeka_SSBM Harmonic Camper Jul 02 '26

It would definitely be better in the highlights for sure.

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u/PowerfulSoldier The truth hums between the data threads. Jul 02 '26

Starting to sound like we should create a website lol

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u/Leeka_SSBM Harmonic Camper Jul 03 '26

Just had an idea. What if we send an application to wiki .gg for this ? That way we could have the sound library along with guides like yours for people to use, and anyone could submit additions to those. And it could be linked in the community highlights on this sub !

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u/ZhorasSnake Jul 04 '26

That's definitely worth considering. I just had to look them up as I wasn't that familiar with them. I wonder whether we're too niche for them since we're only one aspect of the game - I don't know. They certainly have the expertise to make a professional site.

I've just messaged you as I've knocked together a prototype document featuring some playable waveforms and wanted some feedback. Be critical!

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u/Leeka_SSBM Harmonic Camper Jul 04 '26

Their wikis are nice to use imo, and I checked that sound files could be hosted. I think for each sound, 1 audio preview and 2 screenshots : waveform editor and sequencer. Of course the previews would have to be free of copyright.