Wind Chimes

We've all heard chimes playing in the wind. Perhaps there's no more soothing sound; these random but strangely melodic aural cues can transport you instantly to another time and place: your parents' back porch when you were a child, or the inn by the sea that you visited last summer. Wind Chimes puts these sounds on your computer. It uses your sound card's built-in synthesizer and sophisticated algorithms to replicate the unpredictable patterns of real wind chimes. It can also do much more: select the "Piano Bar" preset, and you're sipping ice tea at a favorite café. Try "Glorious Sunrise" and you're lying on a secluded beach in the early morning. "Acoustic Journey" boldly leads you to new harmonic and rhythmic concepts in music. Best of all, you can create your own ambient sounds– select chime types varying from pianos to gunshots, wind speeds from a gentle breeze to a raging storm, and many other settings to create just the ambient soundscape you want. You'll never hear the same pattern twice, because Wind Chimes, like the wind, is always changing.

Wind Chimes communicates via MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) with your sound card's built-in synthesizer to play the notes specified in a particular musical scale. It plays these notes in a fashion designed specifically to simulate the way wind plays the notes on a real set of wind chimes. You can adjust the wind speed, MIDI instrument, chime configuration, and other settings to create just the mood you want. Once you've found a group of settings you like, you can save them as a preset. Wind Chimes also comes with a wide variety of built-in presets for you to try.

Wind Chimes is to hearing what lighting is to vision: it creates an aural ambiance. It can generate sounds like real wind chimes, or like a guitarist picking out a tune, or (if you like) like a gunfight at the OK corral. We suggest using it for the following purposes:


>> Put Wind Chimes in your StartUp folder and let it set the mood for you while you work on the computer.

>> Start Wind Chimes when you want to relax or meditate. Let the music of the wind clear your head.

>> Play Wind Chimes instead of the radio or music when you're having a friendly meeting or eating lunch.

>> Record the output from Wind Chimes to create your own musical compositions.

>> Experiment! Run two or more sessions of Wind Chimes and vary the instruments in each session to create an entire ensemble. Try creating your own scales. Play with different chime configurations. Have fun!


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