A deep four-oscillator drone synthesizer for meditation, sound healing,
and ambient composition. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Éliane Radigue,
Stars of the Lid, William Basinski, and the long-form drone tradition.
Real synthesis, real tuning systems, real cymatics — designed for
listeners who want to go deep.
Most "drone apps" give you a few sliders and call it ambient.
Drone Meditations gives you a real instrument.
SOUNDS YOU CAN SIT WITH FOR HOURS
• Four oscillators per patch — sine, triangle, sawtooth, square,
white / pink noise, granular pink, or loaded sample
• Per-voice filter (LP / HP / BP), drive, cross-osc FM, stereo
chorus, three-mode delay with musical timing, stereo Schroeder
reverb
• Twenty multi-target LFOs per patch (five per voice). LFOs 1–4
hit amp / pan / cutoff / Q / pitch / FM / FX-Mix; LFO 5 has its
own row of granular + FX targets (grain, delay, reverb). Each
LFO's rate can lock to a musical subdivision of the tempo.
• Per-voice timing envelopes — fade in over minutes, fade out
later, repeat N times or forever. Rotate harmonically across
20 minutes without touching a slider.
• Six tuning systems: 12-TET, just intonation, Pythagorean, Lou
Harrison Free JI, Wendy Carlos α/β/γ, Harry Partch 43-tone
DESIGNED FOR THE DRONE TRADITION
• 110+ presets across Drone Artists, Developer Patches, Solfeggio,
Natural Resonance, Cymatics, Mystic & Composers, and Binaural
categories — plus an INIT preset pinned at the top
• 48 Drone Artists tributes — Oliveros, Riley, Radigue, Stars
of the Lid, Sunn O))), Basinski, Niblock, Palestine, Budd,
Coltrane, and more — capturing each artist's waveforms, FX,
and tuning, not just their pitches
• 21 Developer Patches showcasing granular sampling, BPM-locked
grain density, FX-Mix LFO swells, and the JG hybrid pad/groove
series
• Modal chord category — the 7 diatonic modes plus Harmonic
and Melodic Minor — with quantize-to-scale so pitch-modulated
voices arpeggiate across all 7 mode degrees
• Auto-morph between any two presets over 30 s to 60 min
• 25 scripted meditation journeys (Deep Listening, Heavy
Resonance, Minimalist Arc, and 22 more)
• Tune to Room — global LISTEN snaps the chord root to a pitch
from the mic; per-strip ear icon snaps just one voice
LIVE CYMATICS THAT BREATHE WITH THE AUDIO
• Physically-calibrated Chladni patterns fit from real plate-
vibration footage. The renderer crossfades between two
adjacent eigenmodes bracketing each voice's live frequency —
vibrato breathes between physical modes, not styled animation.
• Pinch to zoom; tap to enter fullscreen Performance mode with
a drifting sand-particle simulation along the nodal lines
• Cymatic snapshot gallery + spectrum-analyzer alternative
GRANULAR + TEMPO
• Granular waveform: pink noise chopped into Hann-windowed grains
with size, density, jitter, stereo spread, per-voice overlap
• Granular sampling: same scheduler on any loaded sample —
freeze a bansuri forever, smear a chord into a tape-decay cloud
• BPM-quantized density (½ → 1/32T) locks grain spacing to the
global tempo. Per-LFO rate sync extends musical subdivisions
to LFO speed. Metronome click toggle for an audible reference.
RECORD, SHARE, AND COMPOSE
• Mastered session recording: 24-bit WAV + AAC M4A sidecar with
loudness normalization, automatic fades, embedded metadata
• Per-voice mic record captures into a voice's sample slot
— normalized, granular-ready, with the current frequency as
the sample's reference pitch
• 50+ bundled samples: bansuri, organ, piano, storm, tide,
forest, urban, cosmic
• Cross-device preset sharing via .dronepreset files — AirDrop
a patch between web, iPhone, and iPad, samples embedded
inline. iCloud auto-syncs samples-free presets across devices.
One-time purchase. No subscription, no accounts, no tracking.
Free web version: dronemeditations.com
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