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Hi HN — I'm Stéphane, the maker of BidWix (and myNoise, if that rings a bell). I'm a sound designer. For years, I've licensed sounds and music to people whose budgets I couldn't se…

Hi HN — I built BidWix, a small negotiation tool for agreeing on a price without haggling. How it works: - The buyer enters their true maximum price (kept secret from the seller). …

This project originated from an observation: white noise playlists offered by streaming platforms, are often made up by brief and disjointed audio tracks. This strategy maximizes p…

Noise cancelling headphones still have a residual noise, that you will hear, because our hearing has an incredible dynamic range. Adding a faint background noise of your choice, to…

Exactly. Plus, creating your own "audible" comfort zone, is very tricky. A given sound that some people like, e.g. frogs in a nature soundscape, can be the sound other dislike, or …

Thanks for the kind mention! I am Stephane, the person behind that website/project. I see a lot of people having concerns about the title - Background Sound Canceller - and they ar…

The myNoise pub is actually already open : https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/jazzBarNoiseGenerator.php

I did the same thing, a week-ago. The interface may be more spartan; all the efforts have been put in the sounds themselves. These sounds have been carefully designed to put the li…

I wish I had access to a CS-80! Tough I understand what you mean, the thinning is also due to EQing, as each slider must provide room for the others in the mix (so they each are eq…

Iconic movie Blade Runner (1984) takes place in a dystopian future which was imagined to have happened by November 2019. So, I had the plan to come with a sonic tribute on that dat…

Composite generators are web specials at the moment, but as soon as the mobile app developer - who reads us here on hacker news, I am sure - finished struggling with the Android ap…

November 2019 is the goal, of course!

Each platform is independent and tries to fund itself. If I was working/forcing subscriptions, it would be different; I would likely offer a universal access to subscribers. Curren…

Yes, there is that Deckard's Dream project that already exists; Yamaha is also considering making a modern re-issue of the CS-80, and so does Behringer. Any good analog synth with …

Well spotted! If you read the introductory text on that one, it is meant as a teaser for the upcoming one. The difference is that 'Electric Sheep' is made of sound sources taken fr…

Very nice diversion (with a great sound quality). BTW, if you like that Gregorian song, here with individual sliders control : https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/gregorianChoirGener…

Oh, another Pigeon! So am I! What a coincidence!

The creator of the website here. Thanks for your kind comments! Just wanted to add that I am currently working on a tribute to the original Blade Runner soundtrack... as the action…

Meow-generator when the last slider is set to Meow-y ;-)

iOS requires a touch on the screen to start playing a sound source.