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Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by calibwam »

audiosampling wrote: post #39

Hi Guys! I am the developer of the myNoise website and just want to say that all your comments are a great source of inspiration today: many suggestions for further improvements will be taken into account! Although I did entirely code the website by my own using a simple text editor, I am not a programmer, in the sense that I never learned how to program efficiently and beautifully. Multiplatform issues, and mobile b…

Thanks for doing this, I'm going to use this page a lot, I think. But have you thought about open sourcing some, if not all of the code? With the source code out on for instance github, a lot of people could help you out wherever you feel your own skills come to short.

Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by audiosampling »

NatW wrote: post #37

Nice!! A request: Can you add Pink Noise?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise One (of various youtube examples) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtimhT-ff4

Pink noise can be found under White Noise (because all myNoise noise generators are spectrally-tunable, there is no reason to have different color noise generators: the white noise generator can be shaped to any imaginable color, and a pink noise preset is already provided for you).

Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by rpwverheij »

audiosampling wrote: post #36
gadders wrote: post #32

Needs Birdsong: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22298779 Everything feels better when listening to the Dawn Chorus.

There is something like this currently under development. There is a problem though: my noise generators are supposedly active across the whole hearing range, from 20Hz to 20kHz. And birds are only producing frequencies above 1000Hz. So, I need to fill up the bottom sliders with other sounds, or find... really big birds! ;-)

perhaps a combination of birds and ocean waves, or frogs, or yes, big birds :) ... It'll be a little puzzle, but +1 for more nature sounds! .. and perhaps one of my favourites: tibetan gongs!

Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by audiosampling »

calibwam wrote: post #41
audiosampling wrote: post #39

Hi Guys! I am the developer of the myNoise website and just want to say that all your comments are a great source of inspiration today: many suggestions for further improvements will be taken into account! Although I did entirely code the website by my own using a simple text editor, I am not a programmer, in the sense that I never learned how to program efficiently and beautifully. Multiplatform issues, and mobile b…

Thanks for doing this, I'm going to use this page a lot, I think. But have you thought about open sourcing some, if not all of the code? With the source code out on for instance github, a lot of people could help you out wherever you feel your own skills come to short.

Let me think about it... Not sure about all the implications of releasing this as open source, in particular the investment in... time. I wish I had 48 hours in a day.

Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by audiosampling »

theatraine wrote: post #26
lost-theory wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It loads 20 or so ogg audio files like this: http://mynoise.net/Data/OSMOSIS/7a.ogg Then I'm guessing the EQ controls the volume. So no it doesn't generate / stream anything to you server-side.

Right, the EQ controls the volume of each of the 10 (each one corresponds to a slider) sounds. (Every sound has been previously decomposed into its frequency components.) The Web Audio API is used for browsers that have it present, else HTML5 audio elements are used. The slider just adjusts the volume of the sound (exponentially of course!), leading to an equalizer effect with no filtering required. (Garnered from lo…

Almost exact... but one audio file + EQ won't be able to achieve the same result ... Have a listen to the Wind noise and you'll understand why.
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