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Cat purr generator

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Dev here. So surprised to hear my cat purring a lot this morning, and then realised it was featured on HN today! :) To celebrate this, the Cat Purr IAP on myNoise's iOS App has been set to Tier 0, so you can all enjoy the same sound on your iOS device for free as well! (https://itunes.apple.com/be/app/mynoise/id813099896?mt=8)

Android app in the works?

Yes, in the works. Maybe its dev will show up here little later today...

Cool! I've hacked an audio mixer Flash AIR app, APK'd for Android, but I know there's a Java way to do it. Look forward to it!

Is there somewhere I can subscribe to find out when the Android app is released, as I'll buy it day one, your stuff has been a life saver working in noisy environments.

I bet if you sign up to support the dev on Patreon you'll know all the news that's fit to print. There's also a dev blog, if you can't be as generous.

To me the dev seems really with-it, I doubt they'll announce it with a figurative chorus of silver trumpets across the inter-verse.

I would love to try this on Android. Hope it comes out soon.

Hi, if you could change the jquery Google CDN(which is blocked in China) to fallback to locally hosted, guys in China could access your website without a vpn. Try something like fallback.io

Hey I love your app by the way.

Hi there! Just wanted to say this would be amazing if you added in-time vibration.

Seconded

OP here. I'm so glad I found your lovely app and site. And even gladder it's so well received.

I was looking into the therapeutic uses of cat purr for a while. Sure, there's nine hours of cat purr loops on youtube, but I thought someone might have tackled synthesis of it. Blam!

The code is open source? or do you plan to write about how to generate that noise?

I opened this tab and forgot about it.

Didn't realize it was a car purring, began doing smartctl tests on my hard disk.

Lol.

I've been using this website for a while, even donated some money. There are endless possibilities of sound combinations, you should have a look at the other generators on the site: http://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php

I enjoy "Spring Walk": http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/springWalkSoundscapeGenerat... and "Jungle Life": http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/jungleNoiseGenerator.php

This is great! I was hoping to get a reaction from my cats, but they were pretty indifferent, giving me a look that said "So what? I'm still hungry."

I am addicted to having the sound of a fan when I sleep. I can trace that back to the college dorm days where we would use this really old box fan at night to generate noise to drown out whatever else was going on in the halls. And by old, I mean it was made when it was still okay to make a fan with a grill you could reach your hand through.

That fan having long since disappeared, I now rely on a mobile app to meet that need.

Small : http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/fanNoiseGenerator.php

Big : http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/dataCenterNoiseGenerator.ph...

;-)

Data center noise??? Argh. All I have to do is close my eyes and I can hear the hum.

My worst nightmare would be not being able to turn this sound off.

Love this. Even though it doesn't sound 100% real, it's still just such a relaxing sound, it may well become be go to work music.

I agree with you, it doesn't sound as real as I wished it to be. Cat Purr was a request of many early myNoise users. At beginning, I kept explaining all the reasons why the myNoise sound player was not designed for playing a cat purr (it was initially designed to play random-phase and flat spectrum noises such as white noise and rain) and why I wouldn't implement a cat purr. Then, I gave up and programmed it, just to stop people asking :D It is not the myNoise sound I am the most proud of, but it seems that people like it (or the concept).

So the sound is completely artificial, constructed by you?

( It is very convincing. )

Based on real recordings, but with a lot of processing.

Our two cats seemed to think it was worth investigating when I played it for them - presumably thinking that my iPhone was a very odd looking cat!

How did you get your two cats to peacefully purr in front of a high-quality microphone?!

It was not about getting the cats close to my microphones, but getting the microphone close to the cats :D

Which one are you the most proud of?

To serve as a noise blocking white noise machine (that is the main use of the site) but only with natural sounds, this one is my favourite (try with the Animate feature) : http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/windSeaRainNoiseGenerator.p...

In general, all the latest ones have my preference, as I am perfecting my skills, day by day. I am quite happy with the last one added two weeks ago: http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/circularBreathSoundscapeGen...

Check this one if you like sung voices: http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/himalayanVoicesSongGenerato...

our office has been listening to jungle life and absolute rain all week at work. we love your site. if/when an android app comes out i'll definitely buy it.

While it might not sound 100%, my cats reacted as soon as it started playing and they normally ignore speaker sounds so there's that. I think they were much happier with the purr than when I try to get a reaction from them by playing kitten cries on YouTube. Very cool project and, like others have said, very relaxing sound. Nice work!

Cat Purr is one of my favorites. I blend it with one of the water sounds, which effectively blocks out most office noise and creates a calm, soothing space.

Also, my cat freaked out a little when I played it for her.

A perfect complement for coffitivity[1], the cafe noise generator. Now I can get to work.

[1] https://coffitivity.com/

I also like http://www.rainymood.com/

There are many excellent generators on that page, but Anamnesis is my favourite - a noir, sci-fi world awaits: http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/anamnesisSoundscapeGenerato...

Blade Runner-ish. I like it, too.

This is pretty cute. But you're missing a golden opportunity to call it "Purrlin Noise".

We don't need noise cancelling headphones. We need cat purr generating headphones!

My cat noticed this. Normally, she is around, or sitting close. She investigated the Mac, gave me the "da fuck?" look and curled right up near the machine and joined in the purring.

I used this for a while today. Nice. I was relaxed.

My laptop is even vibrating to the touch from the sound.

I'm typing on a cat!

Even though I know this isn't a real kitty purring in my ear, I can sense myself feeling relaxed and soothed by this as if it were a drug. I've heard that petting a cat or dog lowers a person's blood pressure. I bet hearing cat purrs does, too. I recently read the book Influence which describes a myriad of ways people and animals have automatic responses to various stimuli; I wonder if this is that kind of thing.

While it's certainly no replacement for a purring cat pressing down upon your lap, the "sleeping" preset is SPOT-ON. Great work :)

I like these kinds of concepts; simple and can really improve productivity when being played in the background. There is another app for coffee shops: https://coffitivity.com/

Although you can't modulate SFX, its still nice to run in the background.

You can choose from a lot of other sounds on the website as well just take a look around. I really like the "Healing Water" one. Another site which was featured lately: http://rain.today/?

I have a better generator at home :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_bsCxOzsxqxOVhyWVdtUU4zUWM...

I don't know, this sound makes me very very angry.

My cat immediately reacted! Must be pretty good...

Suprisingly soothing :)

Found this very unsettling for some reason.

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