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In this episode, we will be looking at techniques that will be used in the upcoming release of Sound Experiments for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep. We will look at how to control the mixing of the different elements, such as ocean waves, rain, binaural beats, and synth ASMR. These approaches will be used in the real time mixing of the next experiment using a MIDI controller. We also look at the new approaches to these elements that are being used. The binaural beats have been improved as well as the synth ASMR. The tactile mixing using a controller allows for smoother transitions and more feeling as one moments unfolds into another. For real time sound design, this is a plus.

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In my exploration of ideas for an upcoming album release, I decided to try to make something that would be somewhat auto generating in that it would give my a dynamic sequence that I could manipulate, change, and orchestrate through live mixing. I decided to use the drum modules from SV Modular as well as the clock generating and sequencer. Then, I used the mscHack envelope pattern sequencer to make changes to tuning, panning, and other parameters in the sequence. I used the Audible Instruments Macro Oscillator to generate formants for a drone as well as w ailing chant. The result from the original to the one produced in the episode are quite different, but it goes to show how dynamic this process works and how flexible it can be.

Artist Recommendation: @SenorMarron

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The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
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The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

This is a 1 hour session is best experienced through headphones, and is for relaxation, meditation, and sleep. The session begins with the beautiful sound of ocean waves and light rain. An ambient and ethereal melody comes in with moments of uplifting harmony. The melody brings to life the binaural beats with a beating frequency of 4 Hz, which helps to induce a borderline delta and theta wave state of brain wave activity. The carrier frequencies of these binaural beating tones are 108 Hz, 432 Hz, and 768 Hz. There is also synth ASMR for the second section where the binaural beats and the soothing sound of the ocean waves and rain take the forefront.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

Now that we have a solid bass drum rhythm and shakers to ornament that rhythm, it's time to add some nature sounds to the experience. In this episode, we see how to add cricket sounds to our synthesized shamanic drumming patch in VCV Rack. The crickets really help the sound experience to lift to a whole new level of power with a really hypnotic effect. The crickets sound in and out of time with the drum beat in such a way that it really helps the mind to let go. We use VCV brand modules to make these cricket sounds and put them in their own space with a the SurgeXT Reverb.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

As we continue our journey in making synthesized shamanic drumming sounds, we now turn to making shaker sounds. The shaker is an important part of shamanic drumming instruments and it helps to create that hypnotic state that is the whole purpose to the drumming. Now that we have the bass drum sound, we need a shaker. In this episode, we see how to make a shaker sound using noise. A few different flavors of noise are tested out. We use the segment envelope generator from mscHack to great effect in creating the shaker rhythm. It also helps us to control changes in the VCF and panning of the sound. With the filtering, the shaker sounds more realistic and with the panning, the nypnotic effect rises to a new level. Once again, the VCV Rack noise module helps us to select the right noise color, and the SurgeXT VCF helps us to find the right filter for the job.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

Let's see if we can do some shamanic drumming in VCV Rack by exploring some of the sounds, effects, and possibilities that would contribute to a hypnotic, drum circle-like experience. We will be handling this in parts. This first part is establishing a good rhythm for the bass drums. Using two different modules to create two different pitches of bass drum, this sequence seems to work well for shamanic drumming. The equalized version of the drums with chorus sounds pretty realistic and clean. The delay allows for the rhythmic pulsing to take on it's own life. The mscHack accent sequencer is the sequencer used and the SV Modular Marionette Bass Drum module is used for the bass drum sound. The SurgeXT Delay, Chorus, and Reverb modules round off the effects.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

Here's the sound of a patch that I made in VCV Rack where I combined some drums, delay, and formants. The patch can be found in episode 004 of Wayfarer VCV Rack Patches. It's got a bit of techno shamanism to it with an ounce of humor. Just a bit of a twist to the techno shamanism vibe.

The visualization is "Agitator" by Aderrasi from the Project M library.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

This sound experiment is a sonic experience for relaxation, meditation, and sleep. It utilizes a light rain sound to help one relax and has ambient music that can help the mind become quiet. The sound used is an ethereal sound that has qualities of Tibetan singing bowls as well as didgeridoo. Tones are used to create binaural beats at frequencies with meaningful harmonic relationships. The tuning of the pitches is based on A 432 Hz. There is an added tone of 786 Hz that has also sown promise in prior experiments. The length is 2 hours with the second hour being based purely on binaural beating and the sound of rain. The black screen is for the comfort of the listener. It is highly recommended that this sound experience be heard using headphones.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

In this episode, we look at the techniques that were used in Sound Experiment 014 for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep. This sound experience used synthesized light rain, binaural beats tuned to A 432 Hz with a modulating filter on the harmonics of the tones, harmonic relationships between the binaural beats, a 786 Hz tone, and ambient music played on a sound that combines the elements of a didgeridoo with a Tibetan singing bowl. These elements will also be utilized in the next sound experiment, 015, for a 2 hour version. All of these techniques are performed in real time using VCV RAck.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

This episode explores a patch that really gets into a hypnotic state of consciousness with a drum sequence and synthesized formants. The effect is like a shaman singing with a drum beat. We look at how one can use the SV Modular sequencer and drum modules to create a pretty cool beat easily and then use the SurgeXT Delay module to add some echo-like polythmic action that is really trance inducing. As the idea evolves, we add the formant sounds from the Audible Instruments Macro Oscillator. Finally, we see how to execute the whole sequence with MIDI as a one note, one key groove.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

In this episode, Dr. Lawrence w. Moore shares a patch that he was working on to make drum patterns that were hypnotic, trippy, and just all out magical. The patch demonstrated int his video shows one some insights on making drum patterns for hypnotic or trance inducing purposes. The patterns can be varied using some parameter changes on the node sequencer as well as on the delays for the different drum sounds. The node sequencer from Sha#bang! is utilized to generate the drum triggers and the tuning of the drum sounds. The SurgeXT delay is used to create rhythmic delay patterns on the drum sounds. The drum sounds are from the SV Modular drum kit. VCV Rack has a whole plethora of options when it comes to making tripped out drum sounds. This is just one.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

In this episode we will look at a VCV Rack patch made by Dr. Lawrence W. Moore that has the sound of mallet tones being played in a pattern/pulse minimalist still with rhythmic variations. There are many ways to make this kind of sound in VCV Rack, but Dr. Moore elected to utilize the Node Sequencer from Sha#Bang! so that a collection of pitches could be selected and executed at different octaves. The Audible Instruments Macro Oscillator 2 is also used to generate filtered noise that has a pitch to it. This noise can then be used in reverb to sound similar to a mallet instrument. The oscillator generates a rhythmic flow of tones. This can be further shaped with the Befaco ADSR envelope generator. The panning is then randomized and attenuated using the VCV Random module and Befaco attenuator respectively. The resulting sound is an auto generating flow of notes from the mode or key that you select with interesting rhythmic variations in the minimalist pattern/pulse style.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

In this first episode of Wayfarer VCV Rack Patches, we are going to look at making auto generating sounds that grow and evolve over time. Such sounds can add an element of chance in music. They are always more magical when the ideas seem to come from themselves and do not sound regular or formulaic. In this example, we see how to use the Macro Oscillator 2 from Audible Instruments to generate noise particle tones that sound quite lovely and that emanate with a quasi-random nature. The rate of particle generation is varied using an LFo along with the particle length. The spread of the pitches that the particles cover is varied using the random module from VCV. This allows for the same module to control the length of an envelope which allows for the musical ideas to have phrasing and space in between gestures. The overall effect is a beautiful ambient sound that sounds like particles and bodies in space. This bears insight on how one can compose music entirely in VCV Rack.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

This session is best heard in headphones so that one can ebenfit from the binaural beating for a mixed delta and theta brain wave state. The session begins with light rain that helps one to relax. An ethereal melody, tuned to A 432 Hz is played and touches points the grow into frequencies that bear harmonic relationships to one another within the A 432 tuning system. These frequencies are offset to produce binaural beats of 4 Hz, which is the border between delta and theta brain wave frequencies. As the harmonics stack, they are reduced to a gentle, distant perspective in the rain so that one can benefit from their frequencies and beating while being sucked into the rain sound. Toward the second half, the 786 Hz binaural beating pair enters and nestles in with the other harmonics. The blending is reduced more until it become an ethereal glow in sound. The black screen provides comfort for relaxation, meditation, or sleep.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

In this episode of Sound Design for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep, we look at how to make an even better light, steady, relaxing rain sound in VCV Rack. All of the modules used in this episode are free modules. The resulting rain sound is relaxing and light enough to be used for relaxation purposes. The sound design has a few different variable to it that you can customize for your own purposes. These different possibilities are shown int he episode. The heart of the sound generation features the Macro Oscillator 2 from Audible Instruments, the Rnadom module from VCV Rack, and the VCF and Reverb 2 modules from SurgeXT. This rain will be featured in Sound Experiment 014 for Relaxation Meditation and Sleep. Your feedback is welcome!

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

The sound of running, flowing, or bubbling water is definitely a very relaxing sound that can be used in relaxation, meditation, and sleep. In this episode , we look at how one can utilize free modules from VCV Rack to make such sounds. Specifically, we will make the sound of a waterfall in a cave flowing into a bubbling pool of water. Along the way, we will look at how one can take the sound design in different directions to customize the sound for one's own needs. At the heart of it all is the Macro Oscillator 2 from Audible Instruments, along with the VCF from SurgeXT modulated by the random module from VCV.

Also check out the music of @TheMilangudzik

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

Now that I have been synthesizing bird sounds in VCV Rack, I think about the bird calls that I am hearing in the springtime. I'm not a bird expert, so I don't know what kind of bird this is, but ti would be a cool sound to make.

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The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

Cricket sounds are very useful for any sound experience that is deisgned for relaxation, meditation, or sleep. The sound of crickets are one of those sounds of nature that have a natural rhythm to it that employs a slight amount of chaos to create a beautiful variation. In this episode, we look at how to make cricket sounds and how to vary the sounds in an umber of ways so that they can be customized. We try out different waveforms to allow for different variations of brightness, and we look at different ways of using the chorus and the reverb to vary the thickness and perspective. Of course, we look at the essential source and and look at the basic principles for making the cricket sound to begin with. This episode uses only free modules in VCV Rack to synthesize cricket sounds, so that anyone can make this sound!

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The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

Bird sounds are quite lovely and would be a great addition to the sound Experiments for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep series. In this episode we look at how to make bird sounds using only free modules in VCV Rack. Specifically, we look at making singing bird song. The result is quite realistic. We look at a technique first using the additive oscillator from Van Ties. As the episode progresses, we see how to accomplish the same thing using a standard sine waves, frequency modulation, and a chorus. A random generator also plays an important role int he setup along with a great sounding reverb from SurgeXT. Dr. Lawrence W. Moore guide you through the whole process and shows you what variables can be adjusted to customize your own bird sounds.

This endeavor was initially inspired by the work of Shames Kits: @shamskitz

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

In the previous episode of Sound Design for Relaxation, Meditation,a and Sleep, we looked at how to make a synthesized rain sound in VCV Rack. After the release of Sound Experiment 013, it was necessary to update that design and introduce a new approach tot he binaural beats. This episode shows how Dr. Lawrence W. Moore improved on his relaxing rain sound design to make it sound even more natural and pleasing. He Also shows how he changed his approach to binaural beating back to the A 432 Hz series of tones he used earlier, but with a new waveform for the tone with filtering to bring out some harmonic movement. He also shows how he made the ambient music for Sound Experiments for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep 013.

Please check out the music of @TheMilangudzik is is very beautiful.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

This sound experiment for relaxation, meditation, and sleep contains the ambient sound of relaxing rain, which is dynamic and has subtle changes throughout that capture the mind's interest such that it helps to quiet the mind. There are a couple of portions of ambient music recorded in A 432 Hz tuning that helps to relieve stress, calm the mind, and provide beauty to uplift the spirit. The musical sounds have resonating harmonics that shimmer and enchant the ears. Binaural beats are utilized for the latter two thirds of the piece in order to provide a delta brain wave state. The beating sounds resonate with harmonics so that the ears are not confronted with harsh tones, but rather changing soft tones that sound truly magical.

This sound experience uses a black screen for comfort. Please use headphones to immerse yourself into the sound and benefit from the binaural beating.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

There is nothing quite as soothing as the sound of a steady rainfall. I have just released an episode of Sound Design or Relaxation and Sleep that shows how to synthesize the sound of rain using VCV Rack. Any interested sound designers should check it out. This will be a new element coming to the Sound Experiments for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep series.

Visualization is from the Project M preset library and is specifically, "Occulted by Orbiting Conglomerations of Tomatoes" by Suksma and Superprison.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

As Dr. Lawrence W. Moore's efforts in making quality sound experiences for relaxation, meditation, and sleep continue, we now take a look at adding a peaceful and relaxing rain sound that was requested by @AmeliaBodilia a little while ago. This video show one how to make a steady rainfall sound that is real axing in VCV Rack. At different points along the way, Moore shows how to vary the sound and go of in different directions to customize the sound. All of the modules used in this video are from the free community library and free VCV fundamental library. In other words, anyone can make this sound without having to buy software. Modules from SurgeXT, MindMeld, RPJ, Befaco, VCV, and Skuinky Labs are included in this video.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

This sound experiment for relaxation, meditation, and sleep derives elements from Robert A. Monroe's Gateway Experience recordings. The synthesized ocean waves are more realistic and help to regulate breathing and promote relaxation and a quiet mind. The harmonics that enter allow one to practice resonant tuning by chanting along with them. They are an expanded version of resonant tuning, utilizing 7 tones in harmonic relationship with one another. The binaural beating utilizes the same frequencies and beating rate as those used by Monroe. They are enhanced with the use of the harmonics that are related and exist within a sound fractal relationship with them. The rae of beating allows for a shift to the low theta and upper delta brain wave frequencies. Synth ASMR sounds of bubbling and dripping water are also included to help stimulate a meridian response.

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

While we have covered some approaches to binaural beats (binaural beating) in past episodes, this episode will show a new/old approach to binaural beating that is more true to the work done by Robert A. Monroe in The Gateway Experience recordings. We look at the frequencies of the tones that were used and the beat frequency for achieving an upper delta and lower theta brain wave frequency. We also look at how these frequencies affect the harmonics also used in the Sound Experiments for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep series. The approach is to make the series of harmonics compatible with the frequencies used for binaural beating. Additionally, Dr. Lawrence W. Moore also shows some changes he has made in his synthesized ocean waves as well as synth ASMR prickle sounds. The prickles are becoming more like water bubbles and droplets.

Artist/Creator mentioned in the video: @AlwynOak

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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures

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The Wayfarer Project is the home of Wayfarer music and Dr. Lawrence W. Moore's tutorials in synthesis, sound design, audio production and multimedia art.