# Drone Meditations

> Drone Meditations (iPhone/iPad app by JOSE ANTONIO GUDE.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drone-meditations/id6773486909 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [JOSE ANTONIO GUDE](https://appshunter.io/developer/1893591710)
- Category: Music, Health & Fitness
- Price: $14.99
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 131 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-09
- Data updated: 2026-09-10
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drone-meditations/id6773486909/reviews.md

## What is Drone Meditations?

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

## Chart rankings

- #194 in Top Paid · Music (US App Store)


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-07-03

New in this version:

- Automation Timeline. A new AUTOMATION pill opens a per-patch sequencer. Schedule chord progressions, fades, waveform/sample switches, level and mute changes, and LFO rate/depth moves at bar + beat positions. Chord changes transpose your voicing — so layered drones keep their character — and positions are tempo-relative, so changing the BPM rescales the whole phrase in proportion. Loop a passage a set number of times, or let it hold until you stop.

- Automation setups. Save a timeline under a name and load it onto any patch later — a reusable library of favorite progressions and modulation builds.
BPM & metronome in the header. The tempo readout and metronome toggle now live in the always-visible top row — no more hunting through the master strip, especially in iPhone landscape.

- Fixes: presets always load cleanly (no settings carry over between patches); imported presets keep their automation and the correct key/mode.
The free web app at dronemeditations.com has the full Automation Timeline too, so patches animate identically on the web.

### 1.0 — 2026-06-09

No release notes.

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