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Ambient Chaos

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Re: Ambient Chaos

#21
Cool but the controls are almost perfectly hard to use with a mouse. Must be intended for a finger? Being able to just click or tap on the level you want would be a huge improvement, also clicking in the center to mute it entirely.

Re: Ambient Chaos

#27
post #4

I love these ambient noise machines. Hope folks don't mind some shameless self promotion, but I made one as well: https://abetusk.github.io/noixer/ I had a hard time finding one that was open source and used libre/free sounds, so I made one. Code and other digital artifacts can be found at: https://github.com/abetusk/noixer

Wow. Thanks for making this. I love that it is open source, and the clips you chose are so relaxing. The passenger car is so chill.

Re: Ambient Chaos

#28
A rainy day at a beachside café, lofi beats float on the breeze. Distantly, church bells ring, alien spacecraft hover ominously over a crowd of hungry zombies. The nuclear air-raid sirens sound. Brilliant. So 2021.

Re: Ambient Chaos

#30
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have some example of this? Either an actual app that does this or some Youtube video or music sample that shows what you're talking about?

Reverb is pretty simple, it's the "echo" of a sound without the repetition side of it (also called an impulse response). If you have multiple sounds from different recordings, mixing them together with a single reverb effect creates a sense of space around the sounds. Then, to control the amplitude of the overlapping recordings, it would be wise to run it into a compressor. It's a little hard to explain how it works,…

I was more asking whether you could provide an example of reverb on the ambient sound or some app that actually uses this.

I'm just playing around with adding reverb on some of the clips (using Tone.js) and it doesn't sound all that dramatic to me. Is this really a feature that you think is noticeable and/or that you would want?

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