Cat purr generator

[+] audiosampling|10 years ago|reply

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)

[+] nailer|10 years ago|reply

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

[+] mp3geek|10 years ago|reply

Android app in the works?

[+] kleer001|10 years ago|reply

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!

[+] ldpg|10 years ago|reply

Hey I love your app by the way.

[+] sdsk8|10 years ago|reply

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

[+] znpy|10 years ago|reply

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.

[+] simias|10 years ago|reply

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

[+] xirdstl|10 years ago|reply

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.

[+] audiosampling|10 years ago|reply

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

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

;-)

[+] MattBearman|10 years ago|reply

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.

[+] audiosampling|10 years ago|reply

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).

[+] erispoe|10 years ago|reply

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

[1] https://coffitivity.com/

[+] cpeterso|10 years ago|reply

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

[+] zapt02|10 years ago|reply

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

[+] e40|10 years ago|reply

Blade Runner-ish. I like it, too.

[+] eridius|10 years ago|reply

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

[+] jvehent|10 years ago|reply

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

[+] ddingus|10 years ago|reply

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.

[+] rhaps0dy|10 years ago|reply

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

I'm typing on a cat!

[+] unoti|10 years ago|reply

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.

[+] codq|10 years ago|reply

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

[+] snake117|10 years ago|reply

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.

[+] edem|10 years ago|reply

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/?

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