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Lunar Tide
Lunar Tide is close to a single note: one low hum, a second note a semitone above it, and everything else pushed well into the background. Those two neighbours beat slowly against each other, and that slow throb is where the drifting quality in the name comes from. No chord, no melody, nothing at the top.
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Stack this under rain or a fire, keep the blend, and play it with your screen off. Slo, on iOS, Android and Mac.
One note, gently unsettled
Two tones a few hertz apart at the bottom of the range make a slow pulse rather than a clean pitch, and there is no other mechanism at work here. A scatter of quieter partials sits above them, none of them prominent enough to form a chord. Nearly half the file's weight is in the bass, and the image stays fairly narrow.
That makes it one of the plainer files in this group, and plainness is the point. There is nothing to follow, no melodic movement and no top end, so almost nothing in it asks for attention.
Lunar Tide or Silent Horizon
These two are the closest pair in this batch, and it is more honest to say so than to invent a difference. Both are low, both are dominated by a single note near the bottom of the range, and both leave the upper spectrum nearly empty. The gaps are small: this one sits about a tone and a half higher than Silent Horizon and stays narrower, closer to the centre of your head. Listen to both and pick on taste; there is no better reason to prefer one.
For a darker file with more weight, Cosmic Drift puts almost nothing in the upper range. Or open the Lunar Tide and ocean blend in the free sound mixer, where the waves supply the movement the drone lacks.
Frequently asked questions
Why does Lunar Tide seem to pulse?
Its two strongest notes sit a semitone apart at the bottom of the range, only a few hertz from each other, and they beat slowly together.
How does it compare with Silent Horizon?
They are close. Both are single-note low drones with little above them. This one sits about a tone and a half higher and stays narrower.
Will small speakers reproduce it?
Only partly. Nearly half of it lives below what a phone or laptop speaker can deliver.
Is there a sleep timer?
Yes. The browser player stops after 15, 30, or 60 minutes, or runs continuously with the timer off.