rain sounds
rain, generated as it plays. no file, no loop point, no moment where you notice it start again.
Almost every rain track you will find is a recording, a few minutes long, played back on repeat. That works until you notice the join — and once you have noticed it, you keep hearing it, which is the opposite of what you put it on for.
This rain is synthesised while you listen: filtered noise shaped into drops, with thunder arriving at intervals that are decided as it plays. There is no file, so there is no loop point. Leave it on for eight hours and it will never repeat a second of itself.
Underneath sits a quiet alpha-band bed, low enough that you are unlikely to pick it out, and the orb is paced at a slow even breath. You can ignore the orb and just have the rain, or follow it for a few minutes — paced breathing at around this rate is the most solidly evidenced thing on the page.
It plays through phone speakers, but rain is dense and bright, so headphones or any speaker with some low end make a real difference to how soft it sounds.
questions
- Does this rain loop?
- No. It is generated continuously rather than played from a recording, so there is no loop point to hear, however long you run it.
- Can I leave it playing all night?
- Yes — keep the tab open and the screen can sleep. It uses no bandwidth once the page has loaded, because the sound is made on your device rather than streamed.
- Is rain better than white or brown noise for sleep?
- It depends entirely on you. Rain has more movement and variation than flat noise, which some people find more restful and others find more distracting. Try both for a few nights.
- Can I turn the thunder off?
- Yes, in the full app — open a session and the textures come apart, so you can have rain alone, or add wind, stream or night on top.
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the rest of retune
every sound here is generated in your browser as it plays, so nothing loops and nothing repeats. the full app layers tones, textures, breath and spoken affirmations into a session you can keep.
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