Nature, resynthesized.

YouTube recommendations can be quite surprising! Recently, I stumbled upon a video titled How To Sound Design Ecosystems. It's concept struck me as brilliant: replicating the sounds of natural ecosystems through synthesized sounds! As a field recordist for myNoise, I regularly capture the beauty of natural environments. As a sound designer, I have a passion for creating electronic soundscapes using plethora of synthesizers. However, I never thought of bridging both like Amfi Volia did, recreating the sounds of complete ecosystem through synthesis. I do have captured nature sounds that do sound as they were synthesized though, like these.

Amfi Volia, the creator of the video, is a young talented sound designer and musician. The care for details put in his work is impressive. So, instead of trying to recreate what he did, I contacted him to see if we could make a myNoise generator based on his work, and he kindly agreed!

Here we are, with the myNoise version of Amfi Volia's Biota, the alien rainforest. Compared to the original, this version has a slightly wider frequency range, both low and high, and includes a couple of new sounds, like the equivalent of a frog chorus, named croakos in our imaginary world.

If you struggle with high-pitched tinnitus, you might find these synthetic sounds particularly helpful. They can mask the sound of tinnitus more effectively than natural soundscapes. The reason is that tinnitus often has a somewhat synthetic quality, which blend in nicely. Try listening to this soundscape a low level: while it might not completely mask your tinnitus, pretend it to be charming enhancement to your auditory experience. Picture a whimsical little creature, the "tinnitrix," singing alongside its friends—the crokaos, scritters, and zirds. You can discover all of these delightful sounds and imaginary creatures through the slider names!

Big thanks to Amfi Volia for the inspiration, and the hard work that went into producing the original audio material that served to create this generator.

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