AmbiScience: Galactic Chill released! Getcher promo codes!

I thought this was going to be held up at least until sometime next week, but AmbiScience: Galactic Chill has been released!

AmbiScience: Galactic Chill
Price: $0.99

AmbiScience: Galactic Chill is your one-stop shop for great ambient and chillout tunes backed by optional isochronic and binaural beats. This entrainment system tunes your brainwaves to attain specific, known frequencies to achieve particular states of mind, such as relaxation, alertness, or assist in inducing sleep or hypnagogic states. There are 10 entrainment effects in total -- 5 different ones available in both isochronic and binaural.

As for the music, that's where I come in. I wrote 8 of the 11 tracks available here (3 of the others were carried over from other AmbiScience apps as contextually appropriate filler), and have at least two more planned for an update in a few weeks. The tracks range from pure ambient soundscapes to lush synth pieces to uptempo chillout and electronica pieces. I've tried to cover a broad enough spectrum to suit a variety of desired moods and mind states.

You'll also get entrainment presets, individual volume controls for music and effects, a sleep timer, and more.

So if you've had a rough day at the office, pounding the pavement, slaving over a hot laptop, or just need a break for any reason, Galactic Chill is your mental ticket to a sonic tour of the universe!



But if you call within the next 15 minutes, I'll personally SlapChop Vince Shlomi's nuts! Oh, and I'll also give away 10 promo codes.

But there's a catch. You gotta leave an honest review in iTunes if you snag a code. Let me know what you think! Don't pull any punches. Like it or hate it, I wanna hear about it. I'll probably say you're wrong and call you mean things for hurting my feelings, but deep down the seed of truth will eat away at my soul until I accept the criticism in stride. (But really, I take all comments, good or bad. It's all good one way or another.)

Also, please post which code you've taken so everyone will know when they're gone.

I've attached the codes as a text file here to ward of those pesky lurkers. Grab and go, folks! If you miss out, I'll be doing a Twitter giveaway for another 10 codes too, but I can't give specifics because of that whole self-promotion thing. (The one that's not about apps) Y'all know what to do there.

 

Well, there's a variety of musical styles in there, though mostly centered around electronica in one form or another, but I think there's something there that'll help you get your sheep on.

(Wait, that didn't sound entirely kosher...)

From what I've used of the app there don't seem to be any issues. The looping of the tracks isn't what I expected or wrong the songs for -- I composed the songs with specific loop points in mind, but apparently Nick is still working out how to loop to a point within the song, so they've been retooled to loop in their entirety, with crossfades at strategic points. The result isn't always, in my opinion, as seamless as I'd hoped, but the bonus tracks I'll be writing for the update will be written with that specifically in mind.

Ain't it, though? I wish all devs did this. Maybe we'd have more than 45 seconds to grab them.

It is indeed, but I can't take credit. It was suggested a couple of times a few months back but the idea never seemed to take -- probably because the thread's long buried by now and there are always new devs popping up.

I'm glad you all enjoy it! And you're welcome, I hope it brings you much chill.

 

Well, no rock here, but I know what you mean. I listen to a lot of trance music and have a tendency to nod off on the bus listening to it. But then I suppose I could sleep to anything if I'm tired enough.

Well, maybe not Rob Zombie. If Dragula or Superbeast cycle into the shuffle I get the urge to bang. Really most industrial I guess. PWEI, Front 242, FLA, earlier Skinny Puppy... can't sleep to those. Also Moev, and I don't know why.

 

Okay, the Twitter giveaway will commence around noonish (EST) on Saturday the 27th (today, technically), so if anyone misses out on the remaining codes here, you'll have another chance on Twitter. I'll hand out 10 codes, one about every hour or near enough throughout the afternoon and evening until they're gone.

 

I'm glad you're enjoying it! Yes, good headphones do make a significant difference. It's funny you should mention visualizations, as my wife mentioned almost the exact same thing last night. I'll admit that it's definitely something I've thought about, too, and something I'll be bringing up with Ron. I don't know what Nick's proficiency with OpenGL-ES is so I don't know how effective he will be in designing GL-based visualizations, but hopefully it's something he can work out.

Please let me know how it worked out with the sleeping.

Yes, the other two feature tracks from Neil Goldstein (Pure Meditation) and the award-winning Humble Brothers (Relax Trax) who also did the soundtrack to the iPhone game Gravity Well. Neil's stuff is deceptively simple single-notes and harmonic accompaniment, and he loves to play with slowly evolving phased chords. The Humble Brothers' tracks are simply brilliant all around -- but they're pros, so it stands to reason.

 

It's probably something that could be incorporated with the sleep timer -- add a timer for the visualization to stop and let the device enter its preset sleep mode so as not to pooch the battery.

Well, I will be interested in seeing how this goes over the next week or 2, but I slept very well, and woke up feeling very refreshed. I am by nature pretty skeptical, but I also keep an open mind, and really enjoyed my experience with your program last night.[/QUOTE]

I'm glad you're enjoying it! I'm a card-carrying member of the Skeptics Society myself, especially when it comes to affairs of the brain. It is very difficult to quantify the efficacy of stuff like this, so I've always approached it with a bit of a sideways glance. There are those who swear by it, but again it's difficult to determine if it really worked or if it's just a placebo effect.

Still, having tried it myself it does seem to help induce the given states. I'm given to understand though that, as you've realized, it does apparently take a bit for your brain to get used to. You seem to have to use the entrainment effects persistently over the course of a week or two before you can slap a judgement on it. Fortunately it's the sort of thing you tend to enjoy doing, so it's not like that's a hardship.