Wind Chimes

We've all heard chimes playing in the wind. Perhaps there's no more soothing sound; these random but strangely melodic aural cues can transport you instantly to another time and place: your parents' back porch when you were a child, or the inn by the sea that you visited last summer. Wind Chimes puts these sounds on your computer. It uses your sound card's built-in synthesizer and sophisticated algorithms to replicate the unpredictable patterns of real wind chimes. It can also do much more: select the "Piano Bar" preset, and you're sipping ice tea at a favorite café. Try "Glorious Sunrise" and you're lying on a secluded beach in the early morning. "Acoustic Journey" boldly leads you to new harmonic and rhythmic concepts in music. Best of all, you can create your own ambient sounds– select chime types varying from pianos to gunshots, wind speeds from a gentle breeze to a raging storm, and many other settings to create just the ambient soundscape you want. You'll never hear the same pattern twice, because Wind Chimes, like the wind, is always changing.

A beautifully sampled set of ethereal copper Wind Chimes. All 6 chimes are sampled in 3 articulations - with a rubber mallet, a wood "beater" and wood stick hits. Also included are Wind Chime atmospheric samples, some of which were processed with Granular Synthesis for an other-worldly quality. Programming includes velocity cross faded articulations, layered pads and flexible key mapping.

The sound waves created by a wind chime will slow down and help disperse chi that is moving too quickly. If the path from the street to your front door is long and straight, hang a wind chime by the door or porch steps to slow the chi down so it enters your home gently.

Devant succéder en 1967 au célèbre et génial Pet Sounds, espéré par le monde entier puis annulé au dernier moment, l'album "Smile" des Beach Boys a entretenu un véritable mythe. Directement issu des bandes originales, "The Smile Sessions" marque aujourd'hui sa renaissance.