If you ever want to edit a custom mix, you can do so via the Edit button that appears when long-pressing or right-clicking the mix. Saved mixes go into a new My Mixes section of the noise list, but you can also favorite them just like any other noise to send them to the top of the list. If you want to use a built-in icon for your mix, you can choose from all the app’s options and change both the foreground and background colors to make it stand out from all other sounds in the noise list. Images and GIFs are pulled directly from your Photos library, and GIFs in particular make great mix icons because they will animate when a mix is being played, just like any of the default noise icons in the app. Every mix has a default icon auto-assigned, but if you tap the Edit button beneath that icon you can either upload a custom image or even a GIF to serve as the mix’s icon, or take one of Dark Noise’s existing icons as your foundation and tweak it with different colors to suit your preferences. When you’ve assembled the right collection of noises and sound levels for your mix, you can either save the mix and be done, or you can keep the creative juices flowing by customizing your mix’s icon. The whole mix creation process is simple and intuitive.
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You only need to hit play once, because after the mix kicks off you can make adjustments and have the sound update in real-time to your changes, whether you’re simply tweaking volume levels or adding or removing entire noises. As you make various adjustments, there’s a play button at the bottom of the screen which enables quickly sampling the product of your work. You can even add multiple versions of the same sound for an interesting mix.Īfter each sound is added, you’ll see a volume slider accompanying it so you can tweak the levels of different noises to your liking. If there’s a limit to the number of sounds you can add to a custom mix, I haven’t been able to reach it yet in my testing, but I know you can add at least 10. From here, you’re asked to set the mix’s name, add noises to it, and optionally customize its icon.
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To get started creating a sound mix, simply tap the plus button in the top-right corner of the sound list. That would have been fine, but in fitting with the high bar set by the rest of the app, Chapman threw a lot of care and polish into Dark Noise’s sound mixing feature. In any other app, adding a sound mixing feature could have been as bare-bones as letting you tap multiple sounds to cause them to play simultaneously. It’s a big release that retains the design elegance Dark Noise has had from day one, but expands the app’s usefulness in key ways.
In Dark Noise 2 not only can you mix different sounds to create custom noises, but there are also eight new sound options to choose from, iCloud sync has been added for syncing your favorite sounds and custom mixes, and there’s optimized support for the iPadOS cursor.
I’m happy to say that Dark Noise 2, released today, adds this functionality at last. Each noise could only be played in isolation, never more than one at a time, which proved a disadvantage compared to other ambient noise apps I’d used that enabled mixing different noises to create a custom soundscape. One of my only disappointments with Dark Noise was the inability to mix different noises together. Icon animations, buttery smooth panel transitions, haptic feedback, strong iPad support, alternate app icons, Shortcuts support, a customizable widget, and more all made for a compelling product. It was the other areas of the app experience, everything surrounding that basic utility of ambient noise playing, that was so great. The app has always had a good selection of noise options, but nothing in the sound department made it truly special to me. The main reasons I loved Dark Noise from the start had little to do with the app’s basic utility: playing ambient noise.
My initial review praised how Chapman was able to take an otherwise standard utility app and build a standout experience which, from day one, raised itself above a crowded market of competitors.
Last summer developer Charlie Chapman launched Dark Noise, an ambient noise app for iPhone and iPad that’s packed with delightful design details and key system integrations.
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