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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 samstave »

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…

Truly impressive and wonderful, thank you. I have one request - please add more thunder! Or the ability to create more rumbling low rolling thunder noises.

The site is fantastic - and the aesthetics of the background pics you chose are very well done.

Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by samstave »

conflagration wrote: post #83

The sounds are great by themselves, but I had the most fun layering different generators by opening several tabs. I played around with the EQ and made something sounding very close to Biosphere with 4 parallel tabs. It really felt like the tracks were synchronized to fit into each other. Great work!

Having a single page where you can add in any filter you wanted would be awesome.

Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by pneumatics »

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! ;-)

Birds + running water + rustling trees? That should cover a wide band.

Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by matrix »

This site is awesome! A feature request, if I may: on the calibration page, it would be helpful to have the ability to mute all the sliders except the one you are calibrating. Or perhaps, like slider in a color tool, have a text box with a number representing that volume that slider is set to.

Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by audiosampling »

matrix wrote: post #96

This site is awesome! A feature request, if I may: on the calibration page, it would be helpful to have the ability to mute all the sliders except the one you are calibrating. Or perhaps, like slider in a color tool, have a text box with a number representing that volume that slider is set to.

It does! As soon as you move one slider, it mutes all others ;-)

Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by Groxx »

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…

Amazing work! I'll definitely visit more often, these are great.

Minor quibble: the "Binaural Beat Machine" does not produce binaural beats. It plays two notes at the same time, to both ears, which produces an actual beat in each ear (pull off one headphone - you can still hear it). A nice example of how it should sound: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats

Re: Frequency-shaped background noise generators

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Post by msluyter »

Great, now I have to keep another dozen Chrome tabs open... ;) Seriously, this is pretty nice. I currently have rain, fan, ocean, Indian Drone, Tibetan meditation, and Bamboo running concurrently.

A way to combine sounds without opening a new tab would be be an obvious improvement. Adding a feature that randomly (very slowly) raises and lowers volume of a sound from set of subcomponents could be interesting -- it'd give the sense that the sounds are changing slowly over time and relieve some of the stasis.

Edit: just noticed the babble generator. This is genius, and exactly what I need to mask background conversations.

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